Founded by Vaughn Bishop, a man with over 30 years of experience in marketing, public relations, and corporate social investment, the GOBY Foundation is a powerful force for good in South Africa. Vaughn’s career is rich with achievements, from his time at Adidas South Africa to his ground-breaking work with SuperSport International, where he led numerous projects including Let’s Play, that touched the lives of millions of children across the continent. After retiring from SuperSport in 2019, Vaughn turned his passion for sports and social responsibility into the GOBY Foundation. 

Co-Director, Andy Scott, known as Mr Paralympics to anyone who has ever come close to sport for people with disabilities!

Scott, has undergone the full circle from being a Paralympian world record holder, to administrator, to head of Paralympics South Africa, administrator and later as Nedbank’s driving force as head of sponsorships. It was way back in 1967 when Scott, then a tender 14 years wowed the world by breaking his first record at the Independence Gala in then-Salisbury, Rhodesia. He followed that up by breaking the world record at the Paralympics, becoming the youngest ever world-record holder with a swim in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1968.

As an athlete, Scott swam in the Paralympics in 1968 and 1972, and again in 1980, representing Rhodesia in several World Championships before finally turning to administration and the start of a driving passion to make sport for people with disabilities become the force it is today.

The GOBY Foundations third Director, Gugu (Gugulethu) Ndebele is a prominent South African Educator and social development leader, best known as the Director of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.With over three decades of experience, she previously served as CEO of Save the Children South Africa and Deputy Director-General at the Department of Basic Education.