Hlumelo Biko is a South Africa

South Africa

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n businessman and investment banker. He is the son of Steve Biko

Steve Biko

Stephen Biko was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the...

 and Mamphela Ramphele

Mamphela Ramphele

Mamphela Aletta Ramphele is a South African academic, businesswoman and medical doctor and was an anti-apartheid activist. She is a current trustee on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.-Life and career:...

. Ramphele was five months pregnant with him when she learned Biko had been killed in police custody. She named him Hlumelo because it means "the shoot growing from a dead tree trunk" (Xhosa

Xhosa language

Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language, that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said...

). In 2006, Biko married Leila Akahloun in Ginsberg, King William's Town, Eastern Cape.

Biko holds a B.A. in History and Politics from the University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town

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, and a Masters of Science in International Business Government Relationships from Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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. He worked for the World Bank

World Bank

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 in Washington, DC in 1998.

Biko and Ramphele co-founded Circle Capital, an investment company, in 2005. Biko is currently the CEO of Circle Capital. He is also the director of i to i technologies. In 2008, Bespoke Magazine called him "the driving force behind a multi-million Rand black empowerment company...one of South Africa's most intriguing empowerment vehicles."

Biko currently serves on the Board of Directors of Endeavor South Africa. Endeavor

Endeavor (non-profit)

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, an international non-profit development organization that finds and supports high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets.