Charlotte Koep is the chief operating officer of Root, an insurtech platform based in Cape Town.

She’s one of a small crowd of women operating at the highest levels in an extremely male-dominated space: not just tech, but fintech; not just business, but startups; not just corporate, but insurance, and so on. For Koep, her career has been an exploration to find a place where she thrives, and that, it turns out, is the iterative, innovative, dynamic world of tech.