I am a growth agent, working with like-minded individuals and organizations to #growZA. I operationalise my ability to synthesizing large amounts of contextual data and package pragmatic responses for shared, sustained benefit and growth. As a development professional, I am working to better understand the levers and catalysts in social investment at scale. My expertise includes project design and management, stakeholder management and activation, and the development and implementation of social investment vehicles and tools. I enjoy generating new ideas and devising pragmatic solutions to broadly relevant social and development problems. My colleagues would describe me as a driven, resourceful individual who maintains a positive, proactive attitude when faced with adversity. I seek opportunities that will allow me to develop and promote practical responses to development challenges that benefit communities. Specific fields of interest include non-extractive finance, adaptive capacity, and social enterprise development.Having occupied seats on the boards of Cape Town Tourism and the South African Youth Travel Confederation, The Greater Tygerberg Partnership and the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography, has facilitated a strategic insight into the constructs of multidisciplinary partnerships, networks and the governance requirements for managing such. Noise is music