Experience

National Empowerment Fund

• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Regional Manager: Eastern Cape

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  - Heading the NEF in the Eastern Cape Province - Growing black economic empowerment in the province by leading deal sourcing, origination, and structuring. - Growing the NEF investment exposure in the EC. - Managing the Post Investment performance of Eastern Cape investees - Stakeholder management and growing relations with other provincial stakeholders - Overall management of the Eastern Cape office, including provincial budget management- Growing the recognition of the NEF in the province and improving its accessibility to potential applicants. - Ensuring the NEF obtains its ROI on provincial investees.- MANCO member - EXCO MANCO Strategy Forum member

• Acting Regional Manager: Eastern Cape

  • Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

  - Heading the NEF in the Eastern Cape Province - Growing black economic empowerment in the province by leading deal sourcing, origination, and structuring. - Growing the NEF investment exposure in the EC. - Managing the Post Investment performance of Eastern Cape investees - Stakeholder management and growing relations with other provincial stakeholders - Overall management of the Eastern Cape office, including provincial budget management- Growing the recognition of the NEF in the province and improving its accessibility to potential applicants. - Ensuring the NEF obtains its ROI on provincial investees.

• Investment Associate

  • Nov 2021 - Jul 2022

  Leading deal origination, structuring, and closing. Also leading the disbursement process of funds into the investee companies and working together with Post Investment Unit on monitoring and successful exit of the investments.

• Investment Analyst

  • Sep 2019 - Nov 2021

  My duties included:- Deal Structuring and packaging - Deal negotiation- Conducting due diligence on potential investee companies.- Building financial models - Affordability assessments - Debt, equity and quasi-equity structuring

• Financial Analyst

  • Jan 2018 - Aug 2019

  I worked within the Post Investment Unit of the National Empowerment Fund. The Unit manages the NEF's multi-billion rand active investment portfolio. My duties included:- Financial Modelling- Equity Valuations- Reporting to Board Committees on the portfolio of top exposures in excess of R2bn. - Restructuring of funding instruments- Structuring and Packaging of additional finance - Negotiating with existing and potential customers to extend the customer base of my portfolio of clients- Establishing synergies with portfolio companies- Contributing to business development strategies of the portfolio companies- Attending board meetings and strategic sessions of the clients- Ensuring compliance with NEF legal covenants- Monitoring and successful exiting of the deals (a successful exit being one where the NEF has been repaid with its return realised and ensuring that the business will remain sustainable post the NEF exit)

• Post Investment Trainee

  • Dec 2016 - Jan 2018

  Portfolio and Financial Analysis1. Financial Modelling and reporting2. Equity Valuations3. Portfolio since inception Portfolio Risk Reporting1. Preparing detailed Post Investment Unit(POIU) Quarterly Reports for Risk Portfolio Management Committee and Department of Trade and Industry. 2. Preparing statistical data by way of statistical reports timeously for the POIU to NEF stakeholders internal and external quarterly.3. Preparing and updating detailed monthly reporting for Post Investment Manager (POIM).4. Compiling a Portfolio Risk Analysis report providing a qualitative analysis therein.5. Analysis & monitoring of impairment, risk ratings and write offs.Portfolio Recoveries1. Perform credit control analysis (ratio, presentation etc.).2. Ensure that Top Exposure Report is submitted timeously with no errors 3. Track and monitor trends i.r.o. risk rating on individual POIA’s and total investment portfolio.4. Track and monitor all changes to LMS and CRM especially changes in deal structure, loan installments to finance.



Allan Gray Orbis Foundation

• South Africa
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Admitted Fellow

  • Jan 2018 - Present

  Successfully completed the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation's Personal Leadership and Entrepreneurial Development programmes and granted admission into the Association of Allan Gray Fellows. The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation is the brainchild of Dr. Allan Gray. The organisation seeks to build and nurture the next generation of high impact responsible entrepreneurial leaders who will be at the forefront of South Africa's economic development and social transformation. Through a rigorous selection process, the foundation picks the best individuals from leading South African universities who display the following pillars:1. Intellectual Imagination: this is demonstrated by an established record of intellectual achievement, an ability to see the unseen, challenge the status quo and suggest that things could be done differently.2. Personal Initiative: a person who makes things happen and celebrates the satisfaction of bringing new things into being. Independent, pro-active and self starting. 3. Spirit of Significance: a weight of personality that comes from living a life personified by passion and integrity.4. Achievement Excellence: the ongoing pursuit of excellence with tangible and specific focus on setting goals. A motivation to make a difference and leave a mark. 5. Courageous Commitment: the courage and dedication to continue, realising that applying consistent commitment has a way of overcoming. These individuals are then offered the Allan Gray Fellowship (one of the most prestigious scholarships in Africa) and put in a challenging process of entrepreneurial literacy and leadership development over 3/4 years and upon meeting all the academic, leadership and entrepreneurship milestones, the successful individuals graduate into the Association of Allan Gray Fellows.

• Candidate Fellow

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2017



BlackOwned Africa

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

• Founder

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  BlackOwned Africa is an empowerment platform established to create tangible impact in the African entrepreneurial ecosystem at large, and build the credibility of the black economy. 1. We meet up with amazing African entrepreneurs who started by bootstrapping their businesses and share their stories to provide realistic inspiration to aspiring entrepreneurs. 2. Create a resource base of business tools, tailored for the African context by CAs, Corporate Lawyers, Entrepreneurs and Investment Professionals. 3. Provide reviews of tons of funding opportunities for black businesses across all stages. 4. Provide reviews of franchising opportunities, meeting up with Franchisors and exploring ways to unlock these opportunities. 5. Creating synergies and access to market opportunities. 6. Creating funding solutions for missing middle African businesses.



CreannovativeMinds (Pty) Ltd

• Johannesburg, Gauteng

• Co - founder

  • Dec 2013 - Nov 2018

  Education startup whose purpose was to bridge the gap between public and private school education by delivering the core benefits of private school education (computer access & training, library, small classroom tutorials, career counselling and guidance, financial literacy, preparation for jobs of the future, personal leadership training and entrepreneurship) to students in underprivileged areas. Education startup whose purpose was to bridge the gap between public and private school education by delivering the core benefits of private school education (computer access & training, library, small classroom tutorials, career counselling and guidance, financial literacy, preparation for jobs of the future, personal leadership training and entrepreneurship) to students in underprivileged areas.



Ingenious Faces

• India
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Global Accelerator Program Fellow

  • Jul 2017 - Jul 2017

  Startup Safari aims to create a seamless curriculum of entrepreneurial learning that is experienced out of the classroom, in a foreign market but can be applied in any eco-system across the globe. Through the programme, the delegates get to connect and interact with leaders of some of the biggest startups in the world such as Uber, Zomato, etc and industry giants like CocaCola, Microsoft and the Tata Group, amongst others. Delegates get to shadow these game changing startups to understand their business model, growth strategies, funding proposition and general success factors. The programme includes an entrepreneurial workshop at Ashoka University and other mentorship workshops conducted by the leaders of the above mentioned disruptors.



National Empowerment Fund

• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Intern - Post Investments Unit

  • Dec 2014 - Jan 2015



National Empowerment Fund

• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Intern - Umnotho Fund

  • Jun 2014 - Jul 2014

  uMnotho Fund is the biggest NEF Fund by value of investments. I worked here as a Vac Intern in 2014. - Financial Modelling (Training) - Economic Data research - Attendance of NEF Fund Management Investment Committee meetings shadowing Investment Associates. - Familiarising myself with investment proposal reports. - Analysing financial data uMnotho Fund is the biggest NEF Fund by value of investments. I worked here as a Vac Intern in 2014. - Financial Modelling (Training) - Economic Data research - Attendance of NEF Fund Management Investment Committee meetings shadowing Investment Associates. - Familiarising myself with investment proposal reports. - Analysing financial data



Deloitte

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vac Work

  • Dec 2013 - Dec 2013



Dondolo Technologies (Pty) Ltd

• Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Creative Manager

  • Aug 2011 - Dec 2013