Experience

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  Maia Capital Partners

  • Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

  • Associate

    • Feb 2024 - Present
    • Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

    Seeking impactful mezzanine investment opportunities.

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  Yellowwoods Ventures Investments

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • Investments

    • Nov 2016 - Feb 2024
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

    Yellowwoods is an international investment and insurance holding group focused on private equity investments in the following sectors:- Financial services (particularly insurance)- Leisure and restaurants- PropertyHoldings include Hollard, Clientele, Lombard, Nandos, &Beyond and Spier as well as looking for new investments in financial services in South Africa and the rest of Africa.I am currently involved in a number of exciting projects- technical and strategic.

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  Standard Bank Group

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • Corporate and Investment banking

    • Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

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  Deloitte and Touche

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Actuarial Analyst

    • Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Life insurance valuations, Solvency assessment and management, pricing reviews, actuarial modelling.

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  The Woolsack Residence

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Academics Co-ordinator

    • Dec 2013 - Dec 2014
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    I am a member of the Executive house committee at The Woolsack residence at the UCT. I am in charge of the academics portfolio.

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  UCT Actuarial Science Department

  • South Africa
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Tutor for the course: Introduction to financial risk (BUS1003H)

    • Feb 2014 - Nov 2014

    I am a tutor for a first year course at the UCT which is offered to students majoring in Actuarial Science or Quantitative finance.

  • Tutor

    • Jan 2014 - Nov 2014

    I'm a Tutor for a third year statistics course at the UCT. The course is offered mainly to students majoring in Actuarial science, Quantitative finance and Statistics. The course is about Stochastic processes (mainly Markov) and Time series analysis.

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  Sigma Tutors

  • Tutor

    • Mar 2012 - Mar 2014

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  Deloitte South Africa

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Intern

    • Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Vaction Work at Deloitte again. More data checks on excel, building programs that can create model point files on the DCS programme. The model point files are to be input into the Prophet program when executing valuations for the insurers that are clients at Deloitte.

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  Sanlam

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Vacation Student worker

    • Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    I worked with a team of three other vacation work students (two of us from UCT, two from Stellenbosch university). We were given various assignments over a two week period. On most days, we were given the opportunity to have a four-on-one session with one of the senior staff (All qualified actuaries) from the various department at Sanlam. Assignment 1: Based on embedded values (EVs) and value of new business (VNBs). We had to first read and understand advisory practice note 107 (APN107), which is issued by the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) then apply what we'd learnt. The assignment took us 3 days to complete.Assignment 2: We were required to work together to build and Excel-based reserving model for a 10-year term assurance policy. This assignment took us 2 days to complete.Assignment 3: We were required to use Visual Basics for Applications (VBA) to write code that could perform a particular task. This assignment took us 2 days.Assignment 4: We had to prepare a short presentation on investment vehicles and asset classes that individual investors may invest in. We also looked at the influence of social media on the insurance industry. We had two days to prepare the presentation, after which we presented the presentation to a panel that consisted of the Actuarial professional staff from Sanlam.The experience was very rewarding and educational. We got to learn a lot, and to meet some very smart and talented people.

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  University Of Cape Town Statistical Sciences Department

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Tutor

    • Feb 2013 - Nov 2013
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    The job requires me to tutor, mark tutorial assignments, assist in hotseats and workshops.

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  Investec Bank

  • Sandton, South Africa

  • Student

    • Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
    • Sandton, South Africa

    The week's programme prepared us for the world of work. Group activities and individual tasks exposed us to: presentation skills; branding of self; business language; cv building, job search and interview techniques; dealing with diversity; business etiquette, networking skills.

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  Deloitte & Touche

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Intern

    • Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    I did vacation work at the Actuarial and Insurance solutions (AIS) unit at Deloitte at the Cape Town office. I did a lot of work on excel (mostly data checks). I was also introduced to Prophet and DCS, which are programs that are widely used by insurers. I was asked (by one of the managers) to conduct a mini-research on microinsurance. I got to meet and get to know the Cape Town AIS team, which consists of about 16 highly talented and intelligent Actuarial professionals. I left with a pretty good idea of how an Actuarial consultancy works and how valuable the work that they do is.