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Nordic-South African Business Association (NSBA)Board Member
Oct. 2021 - Mar. 2024Johannesburg
Let's Do It WorldNational Leader South Africa
Mar. 2020World Cleanup Day is the single largest peacetime civic action in human history. In 2019, 21 million people from 180 countries participated.
Business FinlandSenior Advisor Southern Africa
Sep. 2018Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Business FinlandAdvisor Southern Africa
Dec. 2017 - Sep. 2018Johannesburg Area, South AfricaBusiness Finland helps Finnish SMEs go international, encourages foreign direct investment in Finland and promotes travel to Finland. Over 500 professionals work in 37 offices in 31 countries abroad and 6 offices in Finland. As Advisor for Southern Africa, my role is to help the Finnish offering meet local demands. Business Finland operates under the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Trade and Development and promotes Finnish exports, investments into Finland and tourism to Finland.
Business Finland is part of the Team Finland network whee we work together with the Embassies and Consulates in the regions.
FinproAvisor
Dec. 2017 - Jan. 2018Sandton - JohannesburgFinpro helps Finnish SMEs go international, encourages foreign direct investment in Finland and promotes travel to Finland. Finpro is a public organization consisting of Export Finland, Visit Finland and Invest in Finland. 240 professionals work in 37 offices in 31 countries abroad and 6 offices in Finland. Finpro is part of the Team Finland network.
Woodstock WafflesOwner
Apr. 2016Johannesburg Area, South AfricaWoodstock Waffles brings a new gourmet, high-end, careful and carefree experience to the demanding consumer in Johannesburg and South Africa.
Centurion SystemsExport Consultant Latin America
Feb. 2014 - Apr. 2016JohannesburgCenturion Systems is a proudly South African manufacturer of high-end Access Control and Automation. Its reputation for reliability, durability and innovative features has gained it a dominant market share in South Africa, while exporting to more than 50 countries world wide. I am responsible for the export growth strategy in the Latin American market and to establish long-term relations with importers, distributors, installers and end-users of Centurion products.
GEM - Going the Extra Mile Payment Services, NPCOwner
Apr. 2013GEM is a mobile payment system that rewards social action.
See: www.gemproject.org
Growth AllianceRepresentative Southern Africa
Mar. 2013Johannesburg Area, South AfricaThe Growth Alliance is an international network of economic development organisations from The Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, among other countries. As Representative for Southern Africa I structure their participation in local projects, to which they deliver technology, methodology, experience and know-how.
Circuito CompRaSPresident
Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2012The CompRaS network (www.circuitocompras.com.br) is a digital payment system that integrates some 1.000 micro and small businesses and service providers in the South of Brazil. It offers cash-flow solutions for these busnesses through contracts with financial institutions such as Sicredi, Agência do Crédito, and Garantia-RS. Social Trade Organization – The Netherlands 1998 – 2002: Project manager and member of the R&D department
InSTROdiExecutive Director
Jan. 2002 - Jan. 2014InSTROdi (www.instrodi.org) is a Brazilian development institute that operates within
the global network of the Social Trade Organization - STRO (www.socialtrade.org).
STRO executes projects with local, national, international and multilateral funding,
with the focus on entrepreneurial development in the local market. It is renowned
world wide for the implementation of digital payment systems that contribute to
increase transactions in the local market.
Partners include: IDB, World Bank, Dutch Government, industrial and commercial
chambers, banks, municipal, regional and national governments.
At InSTROdi I am responsible for strategic institutional planning, institutional
negotiations, project planning and management, training of staff, transfer of know-
how to partner institutions of the STRO Group, publications and presentations.
Today, the successful pilot projects of InSTROdi are being replicated in Uruguay,
Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Europe and United States.
STRO Foundation Uruguay
2008 – present: Board member and project designer
The STRO Foundation in Uruguay (www.stro.org.uy) implements digital payment
systems for local governments, business chambers, cooperatives and financial
institutions. I am responsible for designing those systems.
Financial services – ICC CredComunidade
2007 – 2010: President
Micro Finance Institution that targets credit to micro and small entrepreneurs.
Grupo FlorestecaShareholder
Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2016
Instituto Strohalm de Desenvolvimento Integral - InStroDISpecialist in Commercial Credit Circuits (C3)
Jan. 2000 - Mar. 2013Development, implementation and management of Commercial Credit Circuits, worldwide.
STRO GroupMethdological Manager
Jan. 2000 - Mar. 2013Prospecting, developing, implementing and executing digital payment systems with a focus on local economic growth.
Social Trade OrganisationInternational Program Manager
Jan. 1998 - Jan. 2014Brazil, Uruguay, Central America, South Africa, Europe, North AmericaThe Social Trade Organisation partners in innovative local economic development, using cutting edge know-how in payment systems to achieve optimal impact of financial means. STRO contributes to economic growth by optimizing the economic and social multiplier effect of monetary flows, and by creating new forms of means of payment.
Social Trade OrganisationInternational Liaison Officer
Jan. 1998 - Dec. 2013Project management Institutional relations Strategic planning Evaluation Implementation of IT tools
University of AmsterdamResearcher
Sep. 1997 - Jan. 1999I worked on voluntary basis on the conceptual and theoretical parts of the doctorate thesis of Mehdi Parvizi Amineh: "Global Capitalist Expansion and Iran", which has been widely acclaimed as to have thoroughly vitalized dialectic historical materialism.
Social TRade OrganizationResearcher
Jan. 1997 - Dec. 1999In this period we researched and analyzed various monetary models and theoretical and practical alternatives. From this knowledge, we developed innovative monetary/financial models such as the Consumer and Credit Circuit, that provide liquidity to the market. These we transformed into economic development tools, that are now being implemented all over the world.
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