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SweepSouthBoard Member & Non Executive Director
Apr. 2024City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaSweepSouth is a digital platform for booking, paying for and managing home services online using the proprietory app. SweepSouth brings experienced domestic cleaners/Helpers and home owners together seamlessly to provide hassle-free experience in South Africa & Egypt (branded FilKhedma). The company's ethos is to Do Good by providing work opportunities at decent rates and using technology to modernise the industry. Major investors include Naspers Foundry, The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation and Futuregrowth Asset Management among others. I am sitting on the Board as a Non Executive Director, supporting the business in its Strategy definition and execution.
Ridge.Co-Founder
Jan. 2023Hamburg, GermanyRidge is a fully digital investment platform, regulated in Germany, designed to simplify the process of investing in natural impact assets. Our mission is to change the way we invest and make it effortless to invest in assets that yield financial returns while simultaneously addressing climate change and diversifying any investment portfolio. I co-founded and self-funded Ridge to create the first company globally that allows everyone to invest in natural assets from as little as €200. From personal experience, we saw that many sustainable projects combining impact and financial returns are only accessible to a small circle of investors (complicated access and often minimum investments >€250,000). Ridge aims to change this with the principle "the more, the merrier," enabling investments in natural assets from €200 to help close the financing gap to carbon neutrality and raise awareness for sustainable investing. German regulations on a secure, closed blockchain. This allows us to keep operating and administrative costs extremely low and pass on the returns of the natural assets to the end customers as much as possible.
HomeChoiceAdvisory Board Member
Jan. 2023Wynberg, Western Cape, South AfricaHomechoice is a leading South African homeware retailer. For over 35 years homechoice has helped their more than 530.000 customers create beautiful homes they love with an innovative range of quality products they can afford. As an Advisor to the Executive Committee, I support the company to achieve their mission "To offer innovative retail and financial services products to the growing African middle class through digital platforms" and grow their current annual revenue of about $100m.
Jumia GroupManaging Director & Founder Jumia Advertising Group
Dec. 2019 - Dec. 2022Dubai, United Arab EmiratesI founded Jumia Advertising with the aspiration to become the leading Digital Advertising platform in Africa, serving Jumia Vendors, Agencies and 3rd Parties. Within 2.5 years the business is serving more than 8.000 clients per month that use at least 1 of our 14 different Advertising Products & channels. We are offering innovative monetization solutions and best in class Data Science and Insights. I extended the business to 11 countries becoming the fastest growing and most profitable company within the Jumia Group. In 2022 we contributed with a small team of only 40+ people to more than 50% of the Jumia Groups operational profit.
SHOPAIAdvisor & Business Angel
Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2021Porto
Jumia GroupChief Commercial Officer (Jumia, Daraz, Zando Fashion)
Aug. 2014 - Mar. 2018Paris und Umgebung, FrankreichAs Chief Commercial Officer Fashion I have overseen the brand, private label and marketplace business of both, the Jumia Group as well as Daraz (leading eCommerce player in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar & Sri Lanka, successfully exited to Alibaba Group).
Jumia GroupManaging Director & CEO South Africa (Zando.co.za & B2B Services)
Jun. 2013 - Dec. 2019Cape Town Area, South AfricaAs a CEO I grew the business to become market leader in online Fashion in South Africa with well above 250 employees, an own White Label brand as well as inhouse Logistic Service & Fleet. We reached operational profitability in a competitive market while keeping the customers interest always at heart. Zando.co.za is part of the Jumia Group with over 4,000 employees in more than 20 African countries
We are the leading pan-African e-commerce platform. Our platform consists of our marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, our logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and our payment service, which facilitates transactions among participants active on our platform in selected markets. Our business today is an Omni Channel driven platform that accompanies customers along various touchpoints. Jumia was the first African Tech Unicorn that successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2019.
Rocket Internet SEDirector Commercial Rocket Internet South Africa (Zando.co.za)
Jan. 2012 - Jun. 2013Kapstadt und Umgebung, SüdafrikaI supported the launch of Zando.co.za as well as 5rooms.com (exited to Naspers) incubated by Rocket Internet, which has already built some of the world's largest internet businesses (incl. Zalando in Europe, Dafiti in Brazil and Groupon International)
to great success - SME ConsultancyConsultant
Oct. 2010 - Jan. 2012universalGeneral Business and Purchasing Consultancy of SME’s in metropolitan area Hamburg as well as bigger companies such as Lufthansa Technik AG, Dräger Medical, etc.
Lufthansa TechnikManager Corporate Purchasing
Sep. 2007 - Oct. 2010Hamburg Area, GermanyManager Corporate Purchasing at the Strategic Purchasing Department of Lufthansa Technik AG:
# Lead of negotiations of long-term agreements as well as purchase contracts for investments up to 5 mil. Euro with major domestic and international suppliers
# Conceptualization and implementation of sourcing strategies for the optimization of purchasing processes # Support and supervision of Lufthansa Technik Group companies within the Lufthansa Technik Purchasing Alliance
# Creation of different procurement market analysis and suggestion for action plans
Lufthansa Technik PhilippinesProject Manager Material Management
Sep. 2006 - Jan. 2007Manila, PhilippinesStrategic Purchasing Section, Material Management Department, Lufthansa Technik Philippines (Manila)
Lufthansajunior executive trainee program Lufthansa Group
Aug. 2004 - Sep. 2007Hamburg, Cologne, FrankfurtWork Experience during a joined study/junior executive trainee program with Lufthansa Technik AG (each “internship” between 2-5 month) in the following departments within the Lufthansa Group: # Project Management and Controlling Information Management (Hamburg & Frankfurt) # Strategic Purchasing General Goods/Services (Hamburg) # General Accounting Germany and Central Commercial Services Deutsche Lufthansa AG (Cologne) # Customer Service & Account Management Airframe Related Components (Hamburg) # Business Unit Controlling Aircraft Overhaul (Hamburg)
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