Experience

ServCraft

• South Africa
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Building the future of African field services. ServCraft helps field service businesses (like plumbers, electricians and installers) win more business, get paid faster and have happier customers. By removing paper and streamlining processes, ServCraft puts owners and managers in control, powers productivity and frees up time to focus on the things that matter. Our intuitive and feature rich software transforms your operations and experience from the time a customer reaches… Show more Building the future of African field services. ServCraft helps field service businesses (like plumbers, electricians and installers) win more business, get paid faster and have happier customers. By removing paper and streamlining processes, ServCraft puts owners and managers in control, powers productivity and frees up time to focus on the things that matter. Our intuitive and feature rich software transforms your operations and experience from the time a customer reaches out to the moment they pay. Show less



simple.Capital()

• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  South Africa



Launch Africa Ventures

• Mauritius
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  South Africa



Founders Factory Africa

• South Africa
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Partnerships

  • Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

  South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria Building & scaling 80+ startups across Africa in the next 5 years. Leading corporate investor relations and other strategic collaborations with partners to enable the growth of the startups portfolio as well as the company globally. Founders Factory Africa is a tailored, tech-based, £30+mm corporate-backed accelerator and incubator, building and scaling 100+ Africa's ventures in the next 5 years across the continent. FFA is based on a unique model of combining leading corporate investors and… Show more Building & scaling 80+ startups across Africa in the next 5 years. Leading corporate investor relations and other strategic collaborations with partners to enable the growth of the startups portfolio as well as the company globally. Founders Factory Africa is a tailored, tech-based, £30+mm corporate-backed accelerator and incubator, building and scaling 100+ Africa's ventures in the next 5 years across the continent. FFA is based on a unique model of combining leading corporate investors and partners, with a 50+ operational team, to design, build and grow Africa's best businesses. Show less



Absa Group

• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director | Transformation and Separation | Absa Regional Operations

  • Jul 2017 - Jul 2019

  City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Leadership, strategy and execution. Designed, built and delivered change capability across regional centre and 11 businesses outside South Africa to manage R3 billion run, change, transformation and separation portfolio. Initiated and led program to mitigate regulatory risk to separation deployments across countries. Created regional service management capability overseeing transitional services between Barclays PLC and Absa. Initiated country interventions to enable continuous improvement.

• Group Head of Integration | Barclays Separation Programme

  • May 2016 - Jun 2017

  City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Leadership and execution. Led senior direct and cross functional teams to design and execute activities across Absa and Barclays PLC business units and functions to deliver South Africa’s largest ever book build transaction. Complete day one readiness plan to enable effective management of transaction. Documentation of operational relationship between Absa and Barclays PLC as baseline for separation planning. Generation of operational contracts for materially outsourced services between Absa… Show more Leadership and execution. Led senior direct and cross functional teams to design and execute activities across Absa and Barclays PLC business units and functions to deliver South Africa’s largest ever book build transaction. Complete day one readiness plan to enable effective management of transaction. Documentation of operational relationship between Absa and Barclays PLC as baseline for separation planning. Generation of operational contracts for materially outsourced services between Absa and Barclays PLC.

• Group Head of Customer Onboarding

  • Apr 2015 - May 2016

  City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Strategy and influence. Responsible to partner with business units and functions to set strategic direction and configure R1 billion investment to deliver Group strategic priority of Customer Onboarding. R250m efficiencies identified across and within Absa business units.



PwC South Africa

• South Africa
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Manager, Financial Services, Advisory, Strategy and Transformation

  • Jan 2011 - Apr 2015

  Johannesburg Area, South Africa



PwC Nigeria

• Nigeria
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Manager, Financial Services, Advisory, Strategy and Transformation

  • Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

  Nigeria



Business Consult Africa

• Malawi
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder | Programme Manager

  • Jul 2009 - Jun 2010

  Malawi Programme Manager, Youth Business Malawi (micro-loan organisation) Co-Founder | Programme Manager, Capacity Building for Enterprise (SME consultancy)



Barclays

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Customer Acquisition Manager, Local Business Marketing

  • Sep 2006 - Jul 2009

• Business Leadership Program, Local Business Marketing

  • Sep 2006 - Sep 2007

  Graduate leadership development within Barclays SME Marketing function. Completion of Business Leadership syllabus. Responsibility for internal communications review and improvement initiative. Responsibility for direct mail and branch led business development campaign.