Strate is licensed as a South African Central Securities Depository (CSD) providing post-trade products and services to the financial markets. It is an FSB-licensed financial market infrastructure that owns technology to securely hold equities, bonds and money market securities in electronic form so that buyers and sellers can exchange ownership of these securities once they are successfully traded. Strate is an independent company, serving multiple stock exchanges in South Africa as well as their respective issuer clients.It also facilitates corporate action (such as dividends) payments for those issuers, as well as other services in terms of South African legislation. In addition, value-adding services are available, such as collateral management, IT services and training.

Investment holding company with investments in La Vie Sea Food Products (a company specialising in the processing of Abalone and Mussels) and Kusasa (an empowerment company with a Lobster quota). Both companies operate in the West Coast of South Africa.

Chief Operating Officer for the Fixed Income, Equities and Solutions businesses units.

I lead the development, through time, of Axial’s support functions from a start-up organisation to a fully FSA regulated organisation.I was responsible for supporting the execution of Axial’s strategic initiatives by provided a single cohesive focus between strategy development, product development, technology, operations and operational risk management resources to achieve business objectives and operational excellence. I designed and implemented Axial's Corporate Governance structure to support efficient decision making through appropriate committee structures, management information flows and key performance indicators across the business.

During my time at the Bank I extended the bank’s capabilities into Fixed Income and Derivatives trading, grew the bank’s funding book within the bank’s liquidity exposure guidelines from R3.5bn to R8.5bn, lead the development of competitive and highly innovative investment products for the retail and commercial funding markets and managed a team of asset liability management specialists who was responsible for optimising the bank's net interest margin.I also played a key role in managing the bank’s relationship with the regulator, including getting South African Reserve Bank approval for building our derivative capability.