Bakang self-identifies as a Botswana-born, Pan-African feminist with an ardent passion for sustainable development and social justice. She believes that her role in Africa’s socioeconomic development story lies within the nexus of entrepreneurship promotion, corporate innovation strategy and impact investing. To this end, Bakang has held a number of roles across various sectors, including banking, academia, impact investing and corporate innovation. At present Bakang leads the South African office of Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley headquartered company specialising in Corporate Innovation and Venture Capital. Prior to this, she held a strategic project management role within the South African Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) sector. This was after having worked as an Impact Investment project manager at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, working on projects for organisations such as United Nations Women, The World Bank, The South African Brewery Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and more. Bakang however started her career in the banking sector as a mining and construction analyst, and later, a product manager. In 2020, Bakang joined the board of US-based, EMI Global and serves on the board’s finance committee. More recently, Bakang was appointed the Board Chairperson of Agriseed Capital, a tech-Startup that is accelerating access to funding for small scale farmers.

As an ardent supporter of the ecosystem, Bakang contributes her business and finance expertise by serving as an entrepreneurial coach and speaker on for various programs and knowledge building events across Africa.
Beyond her professional pursuits, Bakang is a writer, podcaster, and co-founder of a youth development NPO based in Botswana, as well as a Black thought leader’s collective, and is an alumnus of the Young African Leader’s Initiative (YALI) Program, and completed the Africa Podcast Fellowship. Bakang is also co-founder of a diversity and inclusion group that seeks to promote diversity equity and inclusion dialogue and change within South African organisations.