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Cape Town, WC, ZA

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Accendio is a Cape Town-based economic development consultancy that focuses on entrepreneurial ecosystem development, innovative finance for social enterprises and product development for impactful organisations. We aim to be a community for impactful young professionals and leaders in the social entrepreneurship space where they can do meaningful work.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

The Reckitt Fight For Access Accelerator, in partnership with Yunus Social Business, is designed to support social entrepreneurs working to improve access to water, sanitation, and hygiene.

We recruit, manage, and train high-potential young graduates, to build the next generation of impact leaders.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Phaphama Small Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) runs a business development consulting programme in Khayelitsha and, as of 2018, in Philippi. The program runs over 7 months and consists of a series of business management skill sessions and business data collection and analysis.

Berlin, Germany

beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship provides young innovators with the training, funding and expert support they need to bring their planet-positive project or idea to life.

Appointed as an adjunct faculty member in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Cape Town

Lecturing, convening, teaching, and administration of three post graduate level courses: Strategic Thinking, Management Theory in Practice, and Organisation & Management. Supported multiple student businesses through the Mazars Strategy project

Primary duties include assisting with teaching and administration of two post graduate level courses, which are Strategic Thinking and Organisation & Management.

• Strategy Thinking is a final year course that teaches students critical tools for success in business.
• Facilitated weekly workshops and tutorials with honours level Business Science students
• Consulted on strategy projects and marked assignments and exams.

Conducted weekly tutorials focused on teaching critical thinking to second year commerce students. Learnt basic teaching skills and gained a deeper understanding of management accounting

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Project lead at the Bertha Centre for the Oxford "Map the System" Challenge. This is a social entrepreneurship competition hosted by the Skoll Centre at the University of Oxford that asks both students and educators to think differently about social and environmental change. Current work includes promoting, organizing, coordinating and judging for the.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

MariHealth Solutions is a spin-off biotech startup from the University of Cape Town, working in the aquaculture health monitoring and management space.We are developing diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for improving aquaculture practices and overall farm health, to ensure sustained and improved annual yields for farmers, as well as long-term food.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Load-a-Lot is an innovative, reliable and resourceful company that delivers a wide range of transport and customer- specific logistics services.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

SMEgo is a centralized funding platform for SMEs which aims to bridge financing gaps and improve access to industry knowledge. We do this matching you with relevant financing options, simplifying the application process and providing a portal for support and mentorship.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

The Delta Studio is a corporate venture builder that specialises in the validation, building, championing and scaling of startups from the ground up. We are not an incubator or an accelerator, but rather a co-founder, dedicated to achieving the success of our startups. We build ventures with corporates from the ground up.

Stellenbosch

Nova Economics (Pty) Ltd. is a niche economic and strategy consultancy based in Stellenbosch. Contracted as an associate consultant for various strategy, market analysis and economic impact assessment projects

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Enactus is the world’s largest experiential learning platform dedicated to creating a better world while developing the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders and social innovators. The Enactus network of global business, academic and student leaders are unified by our vision—to create a better, more sustainable world.

Matter Innovation is an innovation and design company based in London, with work across the globe. Contracted as an associate consultant for research on innovation and entrepreneurship in Cape Town

Cape Town Area, South Africa

AllSafe aimed to reduce crime in South Africa through innovative products, applications and systems. Funded via crowdfunding campaign, featured on 702, CapeTalk, KFM, Cape Argus, and UCT News

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• PriceWaterhouseCoopers is multinational professional services firm
• Attended PwC Sunninghill Work Experience week in June 2012
• Attended Genesis Park Leadership Conference at PwC Century City - August 2012
• Audit work at Thebe Investment Corporation and Sandton Sun with PwC Sunninghill in 2014

• TeachMe2 is one of the leading tutoring agencies in South Africa
• Taught mathematics and accounting to matric students
• Learnt critical time management and organisational skills

Master Of Commerce, Economic Development

Awarded distinctions for ECO5003F (Governance and Growth), ECO5063S (Views of Institutional and Behavioural Economics) and ECO5073S.

Post Graduate Diploma, Accounting

Took additional 3rd year economics courses in Advanced Micro and Macro-economics and Quantitative Methods for Economists

Bachelor Of Business Science, Finance With Accounting

Education record

Activities and Societies: Community Service, Presidents Award, Public Relations Society, Mathematics Club, 12 Club, Cricket, HockeyDux.