Establishing and driving this hybrid social enterprise designed to enable growth via digitalization of small scale farmers and the value chain, unlocking opportunity through new models for all ecosystem stakeholders. The business model is built on the principles of shared value and has a key focus on stakeholder collaboration and technology to truly empower the vision and objectives.

Aligning the commercial investment and portfolio management fundamentals in this impact investor to deliver sustainable, strategic and purposeful solutions to benefit people, planet and profit. Looking forward to the learning and aligning multiple visions.

Helping business transform and grow. From simple financial consulting to defining and implementing strategy. Support growth and acquisition and facilitate raising funding and capital where required.Encouraging companies to rethink their business models to include societal benefit as part and parcel of their value proposition. Supporting collective impact and shared value creation on a consulting basis.Driving systems change to enable positive economic and social… Show more Helping business transform and grow. From simple financial consulting to defining and implementing strategy. Support growth and acquisition and facilitate raising funding and capital where required.Encouraging companies to rethink their business models to include societal benefit as part and parcel of their value proposition. Supporting collective impact and shared value creation on a consulting basis.Driving systems change to enable positive economic and social benefit.Change creates opportunity! Show less

Commercial banking executive managing client relationships with turnovers in excess of R100m pa.Manage client interaction; financial and operation review for credit proposal presentation; product cross sell (transactional, lending and investment); project manage effective solution implementation across all functions in the bank.

Finance Change Management - Managed workstreams to identify and remediate root cause of misalignment between risk and financial balance sheets.

Drove from London to Cape Town via West Africa and looped East Africa (65 000 km) then travelled in Brazil, Argentina and Chile (15 000 km)www.sawubonafrica.com

Global Markets Risk & Capital Management Managed a project to identify, understand and remediate specific funding and funds transfer pricing attributes and functions within the banks applied model. Managed a critical project which supported the reduction of Risk Weighted Assets for the bank to actively enhance Tier 1 and 2 capital ratios in response to the 2008 financial crisis.

CIB Finance Change - Treasury and Strategic Change TeamsRepresented Product Control and Market Risk during a global Murex Moneymarket and Forex system implementation.Represented Product Control in a precious metal trading system implementation.Managed a project to redesign and implement an in house balance sheet management, liquidity and risk weighted asset reporting and management system.

Human Resources - Peoplesoft implementation.

FX Africa (representing Travelex in South Africa) was a start-up when I joined and managed the implementation and enhancement of all processes and policies covering all business cycles. I was the company's Financial Manager and the Regional Manager of the Western Cape and reported to the managing director and chairman.

Completed Articles (4 years) and studied through UNISA part time (3 years to obtain BCompt).Accounting and financial reporting for clients.Statutory and specialised auditing.Ad hoc consulting work.