Gregg Barrett

Gregg Barrett is the CEO of Cirrus, Africa’s AI initiative. Gregg co-founded an organisation that became the market leader in contract management systems in Africa and was selected to provide the E-commerce platform for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) common market. He headed the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) in Southern Africa to develop and advance contract and commercial management in the region. Over the last decade Gregg has been engaged in data science and machine learning. This includes the establishment and management of data science and machine learning operations, working across people, process and technology, integrating structured and unstructured data to derive insights for research and business strategy. He is a supporter of ELLIS and CLAIRE, and a participant in MLCommons, the Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Working Group (EE HPC WG), TinyML4D, and the OECD.AI Compute task force. He holds an undergraduate degree from Oxford Brookes University in Marketing and Business Management, a Masters in Data Science from Northwestern University, and has completed the Professional Risk Manager (PRM) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) programs. Gregg serves as the Alumni Admission Council Director and the Global Ambassador for Northwestern University in Sub-Saharan Africa.