• Shingie Maramba founded Urban Ubuntu to help companies manage human risk and regulatory compliance.
• Urban Ubuntu offers a centralized digital platform for risk management, business continuity, and crisis response.
• The company positions risk management as a performance driver rather than a compliance burden.

Shingie Maramba is a South African marketing expert and technology entrepreneur. He founded and operates Urban Ubuntu, a company that specializes in protecting organizations from human risk and compliance challenges. He designs tailored solutions that simplify day-to-day risk management.

Founded in 2019, Urban Ubuntu positions itself as a trusted partner rather than a traditional vendor. The company supports businesses in identifying, reducing, and monitoring risks while easing the workload on internal teams.

Urban Ubuntu offers a comprehensive proprietary platform that centralizes the management of all organizational risks. The platform integrates task workflows with automated validation, which strengthens monitoring, internal control, and regulatory compliance.

The platform also includes an impact analysis tool that examines an organization’s structure in depth to identify its most critical activities, resources, operations, and assets. This approach helps companies strengthen resilience and protect essential functions. The system also defines and automates business continuity plans to ensure rapid recovery of vital operations during incidents or crises.

When a crisis occurs, the platform automatically triggers predefined tasks for crisis management teams once a continuity plan activates. This mechanism ensures smooth coordination, tight control, and faster response times.

Urban Ubuntu also integrates a risk assessment module aligned with international best practices in risk management. The module helps organizations identify threats, select appropriate responses, and clearly assign responsibilities across teams.

Shingie Maramba holds a certification in international sales and marketing management from DACO in the United States, obtained in 1999. He also earned a diploma in marketing management from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 2001 at the Trust Academy Center.

His professional career began in 1998 at Realtime Computers Africa, where he served as a corporate account manager for Dell. He later held strategic roles at several major firms, including SilverBridge, where he joined in 2016 as head of business development. He then joined international business technology company Equisoft in 2019 as director of wealth and insurance solutions for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

This article was initially published in French by Melchior Koba

Adapted in English by Ange J.A de BERRY QUENUM