MANAGEMENT TEAM

Meyer Conradie is the co-founder and CEO of Mosaic. Meyer and his wife Louise founded Mosaic shortly after graduating from college. Growing up in South Africa, Meyer always wanted to be a politician in order to help people in poverty. While studying law at university, Meyer joined the national executive committee of his political party for two years in hopes of enacting change for those in need. Quickly, Meyer realized that the change he was hoping to see was just not going to happen from the top down, but rather from the bottom up.

Armed with this ‘boots on the ground’ mindset, Meyer and Louise—who had been devastated after working on a research paper about the massive number of orphans living in South Africa—decided that something must be done about this issue and that they were being called to do it. From that moment on, Meyer and Louise have dedicated their lives to changing South Africa’s orphan care system from the bottom up. That was 2008 and the beginning of Mosaic.

Meyer’s passion for orphan care collided with his fascination with numbers in 2015 while he was completing his Master’s thesis on the efficiency of different orphan care models. Realizing that orphan care organizations can be exponentially more efficient if they use data to inform decision making, Meyer embarked on the development of OVCmeasure, a monitoring and evaluation system built for orphan and vulnerable child-care organizations around the world.  

When he’s not out changing the course of orphan care models, Meyer can usually be found playing Legos with his two boys, listening to his daughter play the piano, or on a date night with his wife. Together they love having friends over after church on Sundays and planning impulsive road trips. 

Louise Conradie co-founded Mosaic in 2008 with her husband Meyer. Louise is a registered Social Worker with a big heart for the moms of Mosaic! As mom of four (of whom 2 are adopted), Louise admires the selfless moms at Mosaic that she has the honour of working with. She is a qualified parent coach and specializes in temperament and personality types of parents and children and how that affects parenting.

Louise’s strengths include strong leadership abilities, empathy, hospitality, and a passion to see people develop to their full potential. In her free time, Louise loves exercising, hosting and playing piano.