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Inverta Venture Capital Fund is a venture fund founded by Africans to help African entrepreneurs build history-making iconic companies. Inverta seeks to help entrepreneurs from the pre-seed stage through the seed stage to the expansion stage and beyond.

Teaching undergraduate courses in introduction and fundamentals of Corporate Finance and Investments

Lecturer for Introduction to Investments, Fundamentals of Finance & Financial Markets, Corporate Finance course modules on the securities industry certification program organized by the Ghana Stock Exchange.

Member of the Board of Directors. In charge of the Asset Management division of the company.

Set and executed a growth strategy for SEM Capital Management Ltd (an investment advisory and asset management firm). In charge of the day-to-day administration of firm. Spearheaded the launch of a family of mutual funds. Asset under management grew from approximately $5m to approximately $40m under my watch.

• In charge of risk analytics reporting on the bank’s small business loan portfolio. Forecasting the financial and risk performance on the bank’s small business loan portfolio – a portfolio of about $1.0bn.• Provided monthly risk and financial summary reports explaining the small business loan portfolio’s performance and providing reasons for deviations from budget to senior management and the group’s Global Standardized Risk management team based in Madrid, Spain. These reports enable senior management to accurately measure the profitability of the loan portfolio as well as devise strategies to minimize losses and manage the risks inherent in the portfolio.• Provided expert insight and commentary to support the bank’s Solvency Risk department in the preparations of the annual budget for the small business loan portfolio. This ensures that the portfolio’s risk and financial budget closely tracks actual performance.• Developed risk monitoring reports for specified marketing programs such as pre-approved and pre-selected loan programs. This enables senior management measure the effectiveness of these marketing programs as well as monitor, the performance of loans booked through such programs.• Used probability of default analysis to develop a report to monitor the quality of credit applications coming through the door as well those approved and booked by the bank. This report is used to monitor originations credit quality for the whole standardized credit risk portfolio – a portfolio with over $700 ml in monthly loan production including residential mortgages, home equity lines and loans, small business loans and consumer loans. Provided monthly executive summary reports on the risk profile and the financial performance of the whole standardized credit risk portfolio – a portfolio with over $20bn in loans outstanding. This provides senior management with a high level snapshot of the risk and financial performance of the standardized credit loan portfolio.

• In charge of all reporting relating to small business underwriting as well as reporting relating to the performance of the small business loan portfolio. Ensured that the SME product and risk management teams received accurate and timely reports. This helped them devise better strategies to stabilize a declining loan portfolio of about $1.05bn.• Participated in the scorecard validation and scorecard development project for small business lending by Santander Analytics – the group’s scorecard development and scorecard management team.• Developed a report tracking the number/value of small business loan applications that were declined for incomplete reasons. This enabled the product management team devise strategies to minimize such applications, reducing the incidence of such applications from about 10% of applications received per month to about 5% - three months after the report went into production.• Developed a report monitoring the performance of all loans booked as an exception to the bank’s credit underwriting policies. This enabled management assess the performance of such loans and update the credit policy to minimize the incidence of such loans.

• Undertook performance analysis on the underwriting rules for the various loan products offered by the small business banking lending unit. This enabled management of the unit to streamline the loan application process and minimize the incidence of policy overrides.• Developed an annual expenses budget for the bank’s small business banking underwriting unit which aided management of the unit to identify areas for cost savings. This resulted in over $200,000 in annual cost savings for the unit.• Created a report tracking the monthly/annual cost for processing a small business loan application. This enabled management to increase the application fees for one of the loan products which was grossly underpriced – increasing application fees from that product by about two folds.• Performed routine updates and maintenance to the bank’s small business underwriting database. This ensured that the unit’s reports were accurate and timely.• Supported the Sales MIS and Product Management team with small business loan underwriting data. This ensured that team members received the necessary sales credit. This also helped the Product Management team track loan production and devise strategies to drive small business loan production.

Organized private tutoring classes in Financial and Management Accounting courses for Executive and Part-time MBA students

-Performed user acceptance testing (UAT) on the Internal Financial Account (IFA) segment of the firm’s Enterprise Data Warehouse. -Participated in the technical design of the firm’s reporting database system for the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) – a statistical reporting requirement from the National Committee for Quality Assurance for firms in the healthcare industry

Prepared performance management reports for the company's London Heathrow hub operations department. These reports enabled the hub's management ensure that service level agreements (SLA) were being met.Collated costing information to determine the true cost of moving goods and shipping items across the company's international network. This information enabled the company's management formulate a sound pricing strategy to compete effectively on the international logistics and mail service industry.