Manager of the Issues Driving Unit, a Political Research team of the Democratic Alliance, based at the Parliament of South Africa. Headed up a dynamic team of 9 researchers providing strategic research support to the 120+ DA members of parliament.

The Issue Driving Unit is a research and communications unit located in parliament of South Africa that assists Democratic Alliance Members of Parliament through the proactive identification of portfolio relevant issues, providing comprehensive and portfolio oriented research, providing technical advice and political support.Achievements:o Conducted in-depth research for the 2016 National Budget process, analyzing the 2016 ENE Budget and provided an assessment of the feasibility and sustainability of the budget.o Compiled an alternative budget, identifying savings and alternative allocations of funding in order to provide better access to Services for South Africans.o Compiled an alternative Appropriations Bill presented by the DA to the Standing Committee on Appropriations consisting of 399 amendments.o Financial budgeting of the impact of policy proposals for the finance portfolio.o Prepared the budget for the DA’s alternative path to Universal Health Coverage for the health portfolio.- Campaign specific research - Performed the research to determine President Zuma’s Tax Liability as a result of fringe benefits accrued through Nkandla.Responsibilitieso Conduct Comprehensive research relevant to the Finance Portfolioo Daily summary of financially relevant political events impacting the economyo Analysis of Treasury publicationso Analysis of the Reserve Banks Quarterly Bulletino Coordination between the media office and my Principals in order to schedule media briefings and press conferenceso Supporting research and analysis for Standing Committee on Finance sittings, which include:o Legislation – Appropriations Bill, FICA Bill, Financial Sector Regulation Bill, Tax Bills, Revenue Billso Briefings – Parliamentary Budget Office, World Bank

Iceberg is an execution services firm that was created to bridge the gap between SME funds and local markets worldwide. It offers a streamlined, cross-asset approach to managing trade flow with true neutrality across developed, emerging and frontier markets.Responsibilitieso Managing and executing trades on behalf of clientso Settlement facilitation, through SSI management and pre-trade checkso Establishing & Monitoring pre and post-trade limits and criteriao Client On-boardingo Broker On-boardingo Development of JAVA based applications to allow for enhanced automation in the trading processo JAVA team development of our OMS and FIX engineo FIX testing with Bloombergo Bloomberg API for both JAVA and EXCELo Daily reconciliations of cash flow & accountingo Liaising with our Management company and compliance departmento Sales & Marketing trips to pitch to perspective and potential clientso Keeping abreast of regulatory requirements and capital burdens for our Broker Dealer License and company Registration

Blue Diamond is a global absolute return hedge fund focused on maintaining wealth for HNWI. I amcurrently responsible for the analysis of potential opportunistic securities that require a bottom upapproach to determine their relative attractiveness in terms of the investment mandate.Responsibilities:• Creating Analysis of securities and summarized reports• Creating dashboard reports for both external clients as well as for internal circulation• VBA coding of reports and functions, monitoring price fluctuations as well as technicalindicators• Daily recon of account balances with fund movements as well as daily maintenance of trade log• Distributing the morning email summarizing the events that have taken place between the endof day and begging of the next day.• Interaction with custodians and fund administrators

Whilst completing my University degree, in Argentina, I looked after the sales and Marketing of my families luxury boutique hotel, Le Quartier Français, for the South American Region.Achievementso Developed people and Interpersonal Skillso Understanding and development of communication skills, with team members in different time zoneso Helped implement the use of CRM’s and the change of the Central Reservation Management System to a decentralized and cloud based application.Responsibilitieso Marketing shows & Agent meetingso Guest Relationso Spanish translation of all marketing material and websites