Thobile Zuma is a South African procurement and governance professional with more than a decade of experience at the intersection of opportunity, systems, and impact. She is the co-founder of Intelio and the driving force behind TendrAI (also referred to as Tendrai), an AI-powered procurement platform designed to create a more transparent, inclusive, efficient, and connected ecosystem for buyers and suppliers.
Her career has focused on connecting people and businesses to opportunities. She has extensive hands-on experience in sourcing and onboarding strategic partners (particularly in IT environments), contractual negotiations, and building governance frameworks.
This background has shaped her deep understanding of procurement’s real-world pain points—fragmented and manual processes, limited visibility and audit trails, inconsistent onboarding, weak contract/SLA management, revenue leakages, and the barriers that prevent
capable (especially smaller) suppliers from accessing opportunities.
