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Circular.coVP, Engineering
Feb. 2022Los Angeles Metropolitan AreaMaking sustainable commodities Available, Affordable and Effective. Offering digital tools that create circularity in commodity markets through trading, supply chain and risk management.
Service, Vision, CraftFractional/Consulting CTO
Mar. 2020 - Mar. 2022Los Angeles Metropolitan AreaInterim/consulting CTO and strategic advisor for GrowthDay (personal development), Venture Garden Group (fintech venture fund), Z-Tech (Anheuser Busch fintech innovation), Wellthi (social finance), Imsimbi Training (leadership training)
IOUzeCo-Founder and CTO
Feb. 2018 - Feb. 2022Johannesburg, South Africa; California, United StatesA blockchain-based supply chain finance platform to create business communities of trust and offer finance at 300bp below market rates
Civic TechnologiesLead, Civic Marketplace
Jul. 2017 - Dec. 2017Remote, Palo-Alto USA
Standard Bank GroupExecutive Head, Design Lab (Corporate and Investment Bank)
Jan. 2017 - Jun. 2018Johannesburg Area, South AfricaExperimental internal Fintech teams tackling high impact problems using innovative design and engineering
Standard Bank GroupExecutive Head (Global): Architecture, Corporate and Investment Bank
Sep. 2013 - Sep. 2018South AfricaOur team makes high impact interventions to simplify and accelerate our business platform, applying innovation, designing business, data and technology architectures, to create the foundations of a client-centric bank of the future. We reshape the relationship between business and technology, by operating with a simple and collaborative model of decision making for a large geographically-dispersed organisation. We find commercial opportunities for the innovative use of modern technologies such as distributed ledgers, data management and machine learning.
Standard Bank GroupExecutive Head (Global), CIB eCommerce Technology
Jul. 2010 - Sep. 2013south africaWe built an award winning electronic trading capability for Foreign Exchange, Commodities and Equities, deployed across 4 continents. Our team was an immensely successful example of software engineering excellence in a large and complex organisation.
CalabashCo-founder
Feb. 2008 - Jun. 2012Johannesburg Area, South AfricaCalabash was a startup that built an innovative risk management platform for financial market trading. The platform allowed banks and funds to implement new products, new risk methodologies and automate processes with faster go to market and at a much lower cost than traditional systems
Standard Bank GroupDirector, Global Markets Technology
Nov. 2005 - Jul. 2010South AfricaBuilt trading and risk platforms for Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Equities, Money Markets, FX and Commodities. Led a team of deep financial market expertise and engineering excellence. Extensive experience creating new businesses in London, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and São Paulo.
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