Experience

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  The Delta

  • Germany
  • Technology, Information and Internet
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Lead Venture Manager

    • Nov 2022 - Present

    My current role within The Delta sees me working in two different streams, working with both corporates and founders to help validate or invalidate their business ideas or drive innovation within their organisation.Stream 1: Lead Venture ManagerI lead a team of high-performance venture managers through our process. These ventures are funded by a number of corporates and seek to drive innovation, access to markets, and additional revenue streams for corporates.Stream 2: Venture ArchitectI work closely with founders in refining their idea, assisting them in developing their strategy, de-risking the venture and execution.

  • Mid-Senior Venture Manager

    • May 2022 - Nov 2022

  • Product Manager

    • Sep 2021 - May 2022

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  Buddy Imports (Pty) Ltd

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Co-Founder

    • Sep 2018 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Buddyrider is a dog seat for bicycles where you can take your pooch along for the ride. I fell in love with the product so much I decided to import it into SA. Its been an exciting journey thus far, learnt a lot and looking forward to learning more.

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  Chateau Chez Property Management

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Business Consultant

    • Oct 2014 - Present
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Based in Cape Town, Chateau Chez is a growing property management and rental family business with exciting times ahead. We leverage cloud-based software to optimise our holiday lets, communicate with owners, share calendars, rental reports and deliver a great personalised service.

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  Cape Availability

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Founder

    • Apr 2019 - May 2021
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Cape Availability is an online B2B portal, connecting short-term rental agents rental availability with excess demand from fellow agents.Status:- Closed.Still, a viable idea and need for this type of product, the product I developed wasn't simple enough for the many interested parties to import all their properties easily and seamlessly. A complete website overhaul would be needed for this to succeed and the advent of Covid destroyed the momentum Cape Availability acheived.

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  A Welcome Gift

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Co-Founder

    • Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    A Welcome Gift is about supplying holiday let owners, rental agents and property developers with custom curated gift packs containing locally sourced products for new homeowners or holiday goers. We follow a simple process:➢ Customer sends us a brief➢ We create a Pinterest mood board based on the brief➢ The client selects their desired option➢ We deliver amazing bespoke packagesBusiness Status:- Closed.This was a great learning experience, the main takeaway was that " just because you need a product or service, doesn't mean everyone else does, or is willing to pay for it". In this instance there was a desire for the product, jus not a willingness to pay for the service.

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  Bootcamp Cape Town

  • Instructor / Team Building Facilitator

    • Feb 2011 - Jan 2018

    Leadership camps for both schools and business teams. Dealt with a multitude of different companies and personality types getting teams to work together, build trust, inter-department communication and lateral thinking techniques.

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  Mallza

  • Director

    • Jan 2013 - Apr 2014

    An online based branding and stationary e-commerce site I took over from a friend, my first real introduction to the e-commerce space.

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  Freight solutions

  • Customer Service Agent

    • Apr 2013 - Mar 2014

    Worked in a freight forwarding company for a year focusing on customer service as well as sales. Had to monitor parcels, follow-up with couriers and expand the marketing reach at the time.

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  Brawns Gymnastics

  • Head coach

    • Jan 2005 - Apr 2013

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  The Robins Coffee Shop

  • Manager

    • Nov 2011 - Oct 2012