Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$200,000.00Max Investment:
$1,300,000.00Target Investment:
$750,000.00
Skills
Education
- CU
- SU
- SU
Lists including Sean
Work Experience
2020
Founding Partner
2020
Neo Kuma is a GBP20m venture capital fund investing in top decile companies at the forefront of clinical research in psychedelic compounds. Focussed on early-stage opportunities, we invest across drug development, clinics and services, and the infrastructure that supports them.
Family Partner, Family Office
2018
Management of a Virtual Family Office structure with a trade finance and tax planning mandate.
2018 - 2019
Consultant: Executive Strategy
2018 - 2019
Daisy Telecoms is a corporate services and office-automation company based in South Africa. Specializing in end-to-end corporate solutions primarily in the finance, office equipment, IT infrastructure, and security. Mandate: project managing and executing a solutions orientated approach to boost collaboration, innovation, and efficiency within the executive department. Projects include developing a centralized and automated corporate services model to serve dozens of companies and increase profitability and efficiency; the planned roll out of sustainable energy solutions and changes in corporate practices to over 90 companies and hundreds of locations in order to decrease carbon footprints; and company culture development for new mergers and acquisitions.
2017 - 2018
Consultant, International Expansion
2018 - 2018
Tasked with opening Andela's new Cairo office. Primary activities included general administration to begin company operations, recruitment of software developers, and the creation of a company culture on-boarding program.
Executive Coordinator to the President
2017 - 2018
Acting in a supporting role to the President and driving strategic global initiatives and organization across the company. This includes significant travel to offices in Lagos, Nairobi and Kampala. Focussed on building systems to optimize processes and resources. Coordinating cross-functional teams across four timezones and two continents. Obsessed with efficiency, comfortable with ambiguity, and deeply passionate about the African tech ecosystem. Andela was founded on a simple truth: brilliance is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not. We unlock that brilliance by giving global companies access to untapped talent across Africa. Andela provides companies with access to the top 1% of global tech talent. We identify high-potential developers on the African continent, shape them into world-class technical leaders, and pair them with companies as full-time, distributed team members. This allows Andela's partners, which range from startups to Fortune 500s, to accelerate their product roadmaps while minimizing time spent interviewing, on-boarding, and training new hires
2017 - 2018
Co-Founder
2017 - 2018
In partnership with Caliber Collection and VETPAW, we hand craft jewellery from bullet casings found at Rhino poaching crime scenes in South Africa. All proceeds go towards funding anti-poaching initiatives and conservation efforts through VETPAW and other beneficiaries.
2017 - 2017
Fall 2017 Intern
2017 - 2017
The RPR Internship Program provides an opportunity to work with senior strategists in public relations and brand building. I work with members of the account staff on various projects including researching media lists, distributing media packages, drafting and distributing press releases and pitch letters, and copywriting and editing various written materials on behalf of clients.
2017 - 2017
Project Coordinator
2017 - 2017
Worked primarily to build an environment of multi-stakeholder engagement. Involved hacking the bureaucracy through organizing events and facilitating consensus building in order to streamline entrepreneurship incubators within Rio and Sao Paulo and ensure greater use of data driven solutions in the public sector.
2015 - 2015
Vacation Student
2015 - 2015
The bank offers this program to students in order to develop wealth management and investment skills in a changing Global Environment. Key personal growth areas were in leadership skills (motivating a team, active listening and conflict resolution) through managing a diverse team in a group competition where we placed first. This enhanced my problem solving and creative thinking skills through developing and testing a simulated product line for automated luxury yacht manufacturing.
2015 - 2015
Navigate Vacation Program
2015 - 2015
Investec Navigate is a grad vac work experience programme for university students in various disciplines. This intense programme gives students in their third year or above an opportunity to experience the “real world”. They are given a platform to showcase their entrepreneurial and innovative thinking potential through a series of action-based learning and projects that immerse them in the Investec culture of spirited individuality, competitive streak and collaborative meritocracy.
2014 - 2014
Legal Intern
2014 - 2014
Worked in conveyance, litigation and commercial law. Through interacting with the local and international client base I was able focus on building lasting relationships with clients. Positively influencing client retention, my tasks included assessing briefs, reviewing and recommending precedent and conducting due diligence.