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Cape Town Area, South Africa

Forethought Africa is an advisory and management services company positioned to contribute towards the growth of business and investment opportunities across the African continent, which are focused on long-term value creation and relevance to society. Our value offering is premised on partnerships with all our stakeholders, especially clients, which espouse mutual partnership between business and society as a pathway to driving economic value creation. Our model is based on the principles underpinning the strategic models of shared value and investment for impact, and as well as global aspirational ideals such as sustainable development goals.We are structured to gain value and business significance by means of offering advisory, management services, and participating in long-term growth investment opportunities.

Cape Town

Allan Gray Orbis Foundation invests in long-term relationships with individuals who canmake a life-altering, generational impact on the world around them. Through inspiring anddeveloping these individuals, known as Allan Gray Fellows, we are investing in a long-termlegacy of greatness.The Foundation is continually seeking individuals who are willing to invest time and have aninterest in being part of promoting the growth of entrepreneurial thinking and prosperity inSouthern Africa to walk alongside the Allan Gray Fellows in their journey towards making asignificant impact.As an Allan Gray Mentor - be involved in assisting to shape the future of youngleaders. Mentorship is a key component of the Allan Gray Fellowship opportunity and is aplatform to unlock a Fellow’s personal development and an opportunity to influence theirworld view and future aspirations.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Future Beyond is a social enterprise whose primary focus is to create an inclusive participation in renewable energy. To this end, Future Beyond has initiated a programme called Re(Em)Powering the Youth, which is aimed at providing training and capacitating of the youth to take advantage of opportunities in the renewable energy sector and to provide an empowerment platform.Future Beyond is also currently developing a platform for training, business-matchmaking, workshops, enterprise development in the renewable energy sector, and also to create a community development models for utility scale and off-grid renewable energy projects.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

ADVISORY SERVICES:Our core mission is to craft successful collaboration with clients and to find innovative solutions focussing on all aspects of the renewable energy and water sectors, including wind energy, solar PV, biomass, waste-to-energy, small-scale hydropower and mini-grids.Our highly specialised advisory team provides you with a full range of skills and expertise required to successfully develop, innovate, and implement small to large-scale projects.As a black-owned private company established in 2014, we are best placed to service clients operating in South Africa and the African continent.We work within various spheres of government and the private sector offering advisory services throughout the project lifecycle. CAPABILITIES:-Feasibility assessments-Technical assessments-Wind technical assessments-General Advisory services (financial modelling, project structuring, procurement management, securing funding)-Due diligence (for acquisition or sale of infrastructure assets)-Facilitation of stakeholder engagements-Supporting services (engineering, technical and project management)-Site selection and acquisition

Elected as a member of the Governing board as of October 2016 for a two-year tenure.SAWEA is the leading trade and professional body representing the wind industry in South Africa. Acting as the voice of the South Africa’s wind industry, SAWEA’s primary purpose is to promote the sustainable use of wind energy in South Africa acting as a central point of contact for information for its members and as a group promoting wind energy to government, industry, the media and the public whilst facilitating the exchange of technical information, expertise and experience in the wind energy sector. SAWEA’s members comprise of both national and international developers, manufacturers and stakeholders working in the industry, and aggregates a substantial amount of knowledge and expertise in a wide range of areas. Our aims are:to promote the sustainable use of commercial wind energy in South Africa;to contribute knowledge and human resources to the streamlining of the policy and regulatory framework for wind in SA;to facilitate synergy between the growth of the industry and the achievement of the broader socio-economic aims of Government (including training, job creation and localisation);to disseminate information;to act as a focal point for discussion between members, government, the media and the public.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

G7 Renewable Energies is involved in the development of large scale and grid-connected wind energy projects. G7 has a vast portfolio of wind energy projects, some of which are ready to be submitted to the Department of Energy's renewable energy procurement process.My role currently is in a project management function and is involved in a wide range of multi-disciplinary functions that include permitting, coordination with consultants, scheduling, legal, government relations, technical planning, project management, and stakeholder management, amongst others.

Leading SAWEA's LandUse Planning Working Group focuses on engaging authorities on issues of land-use and spatial planning for wind energy, and to interface between national/provincial planning authorities and SAWEA, to collate/submit members comments on draft planning guidelines, acts and legislations. The WG aims to play a role of engaging respective planning authorities with intent to eliminate unnecessary red tape in the permitting processes for renewable energy development, particularly for wind energy.

Enrolled for a Full-time MBA Programme for a year. Focused on Leadership, Sustainability, Master's Research on Investment in Renewable Energy and development of Renewable Energy Market.

Strategic Management consulting, Business Development, Market Research, Financial Structuring.

I consulted with a start-up. My role was to offer advisory service in the development of Laboratory Information Management Software (LIMS) for quality management purposes in the industry. I provided support in the market research and strategy development areas for the LIMS Project. I was partnering in the project to provide an analysis of the laboratory market, as well as technical insights

Responsible for operating, maintaining and managing an analytical services instrumentation facility worth approximately for 4 years. I conducted research and formulated analysis methods for industrial consulting and academic research (for over 10 MSc and PhDs) polymer samples. I co-developed a novel method to combine functionality two DMA/DEA instruments, and also a dielectric cell, now implemented at Institute for Polymer Science.

As an Analyst Trainee, I was responsible for industrial consulting projects as technical support and I contributed in chemical analysis method development, data analysis, research, report writing for 12 months.

Mba, Business Management

Post Graduate Diploma In Business Administration, Business Management

Management Development

Masters Research Project - Analytical/Polymer Science

Mtech: Chemistry