Kerry is a self-professed jack of all trades, master of some. Her passion is assisting conservation leaders to navigate a volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous world (VUCA). She is a Founder, Futurist, Conservationist, Technology Lover, Successful Entrepreneur, Board Member at GKEPF and Advisor to Lion Landscapes.
Kerry has a long-term interest to build strong North-South global relations for sustainability between planet, people, perpetuity and prosperity.
Kerry values creative storytelling using data and analytics. She studied computer science and statistics, trained as a financial analyst, then as a management consultant before co-founding and managing an internet development company specialising in corporate systems and information. She has assisted numerous conservation, security, retail, tourism, banking, technology and engineering businesses with strategy, marketing, information, finance, best practices and systems implementation. More recently, she completed her MPhil Future Studies (Cum Laude) through the University of Stellenbosch.
Strategic support and communication for digital transformation have become a critical component of Kerry’s offering. Kerry partners with numerous organisations to provide a unique insight into future innovation scenarios across multiple sectors with strong operational support.
Kerry is a director of the Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation (GKEPF), a South African based NPC established to partner with government, private, provincial and national reserves for a safe, secure and resilient Greater Kruger landscape. She is also an advisor to Lion Landscapes, a registered UK Charity, affiliated with the University of Oxford whose conservation work work across Kenya and Tanzania in Africa.
Together with her husband, Thomas Hancock, they support many conservation and sustainability projects in Southern Africa. Their mission is to make the conservation of wildlife habitat valuable to people in perpetuity.
Kerry lives with her husband, Thomas in Durban, South Africa. Kerry is an avid mountain biker (now e-bikes), photographer, part-time runner, lover of animals and the great outdoors.
