Rowan is an associate of the Bertha Centre in both the innovative finance team and the systems innovation team. He is the programme coordinator for the Map the System competition, which is run in association with the Skoll Centre at the University of Oxford. He is involved in managing the SAB Student Seed Fund and conducting research on blended finance for use by practitioners and social enterprises The majority of his work involves teaching and consulting on projects involving Systems Thinking, Economic Development, Social Entrepreneurship and Strategy. Rowan in the co-founder of various startups, lectures Business Strategy to final year Business Science students at UCT, and is a non-executive director at Phaphama SEDI.