Bhadra Ranchod

Co-Founder

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa27 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Passionate educator bridging theory with real-life lessons.
Strong advocate for entrepreneurship and blockchain education.
Experienced in financial management and business development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Business Education and Development expert with a focus on entrepreneurship and financial management.

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Skills

Core Skills

EducationEntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentFinanceProject ManagementBusiness ManagementOperations

Other Skills

Business PracticeConsultationAssessmentManagementCommodity brokerageClient relationsNegotiationFinancial reportingBudgetingFinancial analysisProcess automationCoachingFinancial accountingReportingMarketing

About

My name is Bhadra Ranchod, and I am a Business and Entrepreneurship lecturer at CPUT in Cape Town, South Africa. My journey has been shaped by both struggle and growth. I have faced setbacks in career, confidence, business, and finances, but those seasons taught me humility, resilience, gratitude, and the importance of believing in myself. As an academic, I am passionate about helping students grow not only through theory, but through real-life lessons that can guide them toward better decisions. As someone who also believes strongly in entrepreneurship, I see business as a way of solving problems, creating value, and building confidence. Over the last few years, I have also developed a deep interest in blockchain. What drew me in was not just crypto, but the bigger idea of transparency, participation, and a new digital economy that can empower ordinary people in new ways. Today, my mission is simple: to educate, inspire, and help others think differently about their future, their mindset, and the opportunities emerging around us. I want my voice and content to stand for trust, love, joy, and hope and to remind people that with the right mindset and willingness to learn, change is possible.

Experience

Cape peninsula university of technology

2 roles

Business Lecturer

Feb 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 2 mos

Lecture Business Practice to the 1st year Higher Certificate and National Diploma students in
the Faculty of Informatics and Design.
Subject lead coordinator for the 1st year Business practices course.
Lecture Entrepreneurship to the 3rd year Multi Media students in the Faculty of Informatics
and Design
Other responsibilities include consultation, setting up exams, assignments, assessments and
marking of assignments, exam scripts and attending and reporting at monthly management
meetings.
Administration duties include management of student records, exams, assignments etc

Business PracticeEntrepreneurshipConsultationAssessmentManagementEducation

University Lecturer

Feb 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 2 mos

Lecture Business Practice to the 1st year Higher Certificate and National Diploma students in the Faculty of Informatics and Design.
Subject lead coordinator for the 1st year Business practices course.
Lecture Entrepreneurship to the 3rd year Multi Media students in the Faculty of Informatics and Design
Other responsibilities include consultation, setting up exams, assignments, assessments and marking of assignments, exam scripts and attending and reporting at monthly management meetings.
Administration duties include management of student records, exams, assignments etc

Business PracticeEntrepreneurshipConsultationAssessmentManagementEducation

Spy 4 u cc

Director

Jan 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 3 mos · Cape Town Area, South Africa

Commodity broker with a keen eye on the market in relation to products. These products includes copper cathodes and gold.
Receive purchase and selling instructions, meeting with other commodities traders to negotiate transactions.
Have built an excellent client relation with customers worldwide including suppliers from Africa specialising in copper cathodes and gold.

Commodity brokerageClient relationsNegotiationBusiness Development

Old mutual

Management Accountant

Mar 2012 – Feb 2013 · 11 mos · Cape Town Area, South Africa

Responsible for reporting to management on their monthly revenue and expenses and their performance to budget.
Responsible for reporting to the Executive Management Team of the various business unit clusters within Old Mutual on their monthly financials performance and activities.
Support Operational Managers and their teams through preparing and analysing financial and operational information.
Involved in the budgeting planning preparation, support and review for 2013.
Involved in financial analysis of the various department using various unit costs analysis.

Financial reportingBudgetingFinancial analysisFinance

Cape peninsula university of technology

Full time Lecturer

Sep 2011 – Feb 2012 · 5 mos · Cape town

Lecture Business Management (1; 2 & 3) to the 1st, 2nd & 3rd year students.
Involved in lecturing, consultation, setting up exams, assignments, assessments and marking of assignments and exam scripts.

Business ManagementConsultationAssessmentEducation

Old mutual

2 roles

Senior Administration Specialist

Jun 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Cape Town Area, South Africa

Driving a project that involves automating certain processes that occurs between Old Mutual and various Portfolio, Fund and Asset Management companies such as Prudential, Efficient, Acsis, Allan Grey, Community Growth, Old Mutual Unit Trust etc
Involved in the Management of the SLA agreements between Old Mutual and the various Management companies by having weekly meeting with Old Mutual legal team on the progress of the SLA.
Building relationships between Old Mutual and the management personals that represent the various management companies, thus ensuring the smooth transition of the automated process.
Managing the test environments of the automated process thus the ensuring the correct flow of data transaction are processed and captured correctly between Old Mutual and the management companies.
Coaching and training of end-users of the new automated platform.

Process automationProject managementCoachingProject Management

Assistant Financial Accountant

Nov 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos · Cape Town Area, South Africa

Producing accurate monthly statements for statutory and management purposes
Involved in all functions of financial accounting of a business unit within Old Mutual SA.
Duties include month-end reporting, tax, monthly board reporting, budgeting, drafting and preparation of Annual financial statements as well as adhoc requirement as and when required by the department.

Financial accountingBudgetingReportingFinance

Metal rollforming

Director & co-owner

Dec 2004 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo · Cape Town Area, South Africa

Co owner of a mobile rollforming machine and distributor in Southern Africa.
Involved in the marketing and sales of the business.

MarketingSalesBusiness Development

Piston lubricants

owner & member

Sep 1999 – Oct 2005 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Cape Town Area, South Africa

Management of staff
Involved in marketing and distribution of these lubricants to small, medium and macro enterprises
Responsible for the financial and administration management of the company
Participating in ongoing technical programmes regarding lubrication of oils.

ManagementMarketingFinancial managementBusiness Management

Shell sa

Obligatory Purchaser

May 1995 – Nov 1998 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Cape Town Area, South Africa

Monitoring of petroleum product purchases via pipeline from Sasol, Mossgas and Tosas (Sasol value approx. R100 million per month and Mossgas R10 million monthly)
Implemented the new automated JDE project in March 1997 and assisted with the JDE integration into the Department. Served as member of a team involved in this project
Involved as a Business Analyst in the JDE “Bedding down” project.
Worked closely with Traders regarding purchasing and sale of fuel and Gas.
During this period, the department was reshuffled. Achievements and personal contributions to the upgrading and efficiency of the department have included:
Ensuring that the required automated reconciliation system for Sasol / Mossgas payments is on-track
Specified the requirements of an "automated" reconciliation which will be implemented when the JDE system has been implemented
Developed a greater personal understanding of the MS & T division operations and its impact over the entire company. In particular, an overview of the Marketing operation has been acquired
Succeeded in reducing the substantial outstanding payments and also introduced a more efficient reconciliation process

PurchasingBusiness analysisProject implementationOperations