Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Backed by General Catalyst, Rapyd & MultiChoice.
• Moment are building the first truly Pan-African payments network across 50 African countries, making the lives of businesses and consumers easier.
• Director for Moment PayCo Limited UK (not operationally involved day to day).

Jan 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Part of the founding team at Moment. I was employee #3 (currently 80+ people) and reported into the CEO.
• Built and led Product teams from the ground up, managing a team of 7, including 5 Product Managers and 2 Product Designers. I was also interim Head of Engineering until the CTO joined.
• We successfully launched several products, contributing to processing over $600M TPV and 2M+ transactions in under 6 months from launch. Moment offers 300+ payment methods across 50 African countries

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · London, England, United Kingdom

• Joined during hyper-growth (from 250 to 5000 employees in less than two years) and led 10 cross-functional Product teams as part of the Senior Leadership Team. Oversaw Product vision and strategy across the largest tech domain, managing 7 Product Managers. My teams worked on highly technical data domains across logistics, inventory management and field operations.
• Cazoo was one of Europe's fastest growing start-ups. Supported 312% YoY revenue growth (£1bn+ annually) in 2021 and driving a 50%+ increase in GPU
• Scaled my domain from 35 to 70+ team members in 6 months, creating three new verticals and onboarding 6 new Product Managers.
• Supported 10 M&A integration and launched two new business lines
• Developed a new career framework for 30+ Product Managers across different levels

May 2020 – Dec 2020 · 7 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Promoted to Head of Product. PM for Logistics optimisation

Sep 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Leading Fintech backed by Index Ventures and Balderton Capital. Provided over $2bn loans to international students from 130+ countries.
• Product Manager for three different Product teams - customer onboarding / credit risk assessment, global compliance and payments

Jul 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Worked within Technology team for Beta launch of refinancing loan product and subsequently accelerated public launch from $0m to $8m within first 3 months; built and deployed an operational tool, slashing manual work by 300% and improving data security
• Managed relationship with company's top strategic account. Ran 5+ annual awareness/conversion campaigns and customer feedback sessions, increased loan volume to $35mil USD over 3 years and exceeded yearly sales targets
• Negotiated 40% increase in debt funding with top strategic account's Investment Committee
• Represented Prodigy Finance on panels at key conferences (London Business School and Harvard Business School)
• Launched Prodigy Finance Social Impact Fellowship

Nov 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Promoted for accelerating sales growth by 86% across 7 accounts; generating $42m USD in sales
• Expanded product offering at key strategic account, leading to 33% increase in average loan size, 20% gain in market penetration and eliminated main competitor’s key advantage
• Created a reporting tool for Operations to deliver weekly updates to 100+ university accounts, achieving a 50% reduction in preparation time and improving customer service response time by 30%

Feb 2014 – Oct 2014 · 8 mos · Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Recruitment firm specializing in multinational executive search, based in Buenos Aires.
• Established, maintained and expanded key account relationships, leading to 3 successfully filled placements across 3 continents.
• Project managed recruitment search (Director / GM level) across 8 diverse industry sectors and job functions in 10 countries. Targeted, interviewed and negotiated with over 100 candidates.

Nov 2012 – May 2013 · 6 mos · Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Start-up incubator and seed capital investor. Worked part-time while studying full-time to gain work experience and exposure to startups

Aug 2012 – Jul 2013 · 11 mos · Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Social impact fund management and advisory firm. Worked part-time while studying full-time to gain work experience and exposure to startups