Investec Bank Mauritius Ltd

Leading the transformation of our tech capabilities with a focus on excellence and client-centric service. 

- Leading the Mauritius Tech team and fostering a culture of excellence.
- Implementing leadership development programs for sustainability.
- Enhancing accountability and aligning expectations with organisational goals.

Introduced operational and governance processes, aligned with industry standards, enhancing efficiency and compliance. Collaborated with fellow senior leadership to set strategic directions and reported to the Board of Directors on Technology initiatives.

My role also involved aligning technology strategy with organisational objectives, enabling digital servicing, and ensuring a cutting-edge digital experience for clients. Accountable for overseeing IT budgets, technology architecture, and application roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and mitigating risks.

With a dedicated team, we've consistently achieved our objectives on time, within budget, and to the highest standard.

Chief Information Officer

Provide leadership, mentoring, development and coaching to team members. Remove obstacles for the team to deliver and cultivate passionate, talented individuals who are empowered and committed.

Create and design the Data Strategy for Investec Specialist Bank, and develop the measurement framework to track maturity and progress.

Operational and Strategic management of the Business Intelligence & Operational Analytics capability within Private Bank. Identify and test Machine learning use cases and implementation of the models within Private Bank South Africa. 

Refactor and design of business intelligence data architecture. Implementation of auto data warehousing to ensure delivery of data consistency and efficiency within the environment.

In short... we make the “data magic” for Investec!

Head Business Intelligence Private Bank South Africa & Global Digital

CyberPro Consulting (Pty) Ltd

Senior Data Scientists at Investec,  working on democratizing analytics within the organization.

Senior Data Scientist

South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Developed and introduced a new reporting methodology and mechanism which integrates multiple measures within one interface to increase data utilisation and management of day-to-day activities. It also allows Management to see the impact of decisions and track the success rate of strategic priorities in a very short space of time. Recommendations for corrective actions with probability of success are also shown based on Predictive Model outputs.

Debt Collection Predictive Model - Developed and implemented a collectability model for Debt Collection; the model enables debt collectors to work on debt cases with the highest probability of payment, thereby reducing the total case load and increase efficiency. The implementation of this model brought on a new era in the way the organisation utilises information and analytics to improve processes and performance.

Assisted the World Bank with a Macro Economic modelling exercise regarding the effectiveness of Corporate tax incentives in the current tax system. The outcome of the study was used as input to the Davis Tax Committee on possible tax reform changes.

Provide insight to Executive & Senior management on possible behavioural shifts of taxpayers and changes in submission and payment patterns, quantify future risk factors with probability of occurrence and highlight possible solutions.

Developed and managed the Submission Forecast models used to track submissions of Taxpayers and Employers during both filing seasons. The Filing Season submissions and Forecasts are the official view of the filing seasons in the organisation. 

Provide career mentoring and shaping of BEE talent to ensure optimal fit and results for the division and organisation. Responsible for management of a team of analysts, specialist and data engineers driving the strategic direction of future projects.

Manager Performance Analytics

Nedbank

End-to-end Costing and Profitability

Designed, implemented and produced the product profitability reports, which included all Capital, Funding, Revenue and cost components for each product.

Established a process to ensure a central view of the Bank’s product profitability was done at Group Finance Divisional level.

Transfer Pricing

Key role player in the Design, management and execution of the Central Transfer Pricing model to determine the Inward Transfer Pricing for all Clusters. The results were crucial in ensuring the financial statements of the bank were correctly portrayed.

Manager Activity Based Costing & Product Profitability

Dex Data

Obtained in-depth knowledge of life and short term insurance industries specifically on pricing models and Valuation.

Engaged with external clients on new business opportunities and ventures.

Understanding and quantifying risk elements within business, and plan accordingly based on quantitative data, empirical and scientific evidence

Statistician

Rentmeester Assurance

Obtained valuable knowledge on the application of Statistical Modelling and Forecasting methodologies in order to assist management with organisational decisions at Operational and Strategic level.

Actuarial Assistant

As the Chief Information Officer at Investec Bank Mauritius Ltd, I lead the transformation of our tech capabilities with a focus on excellence and client-centric service.

My core competencies include data analytics, machine learning, leadership development, operational and governance processes, and digital servicing. I have a restless spirit and a passion for questioning the conventional and using my imagination to help teams solve complex problems.

Daniel Seymore

Investec

Data Scientist and Graph Data Modeling

GetSmarter

The Business Analytics online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) enable aspiring and functional analysts, and business decision-makers, to improve their business intelligence capabilities by applying statistical techniques to data sets and extract insights to inform decision-making. Students explore data visualisation and storytelling, learn about SQL, and how to use calculated fields in Tableau. They also use Python to apply statistical techniques (such as factor and cluster analysis, multiple and logistic regression, and classification trees) to different data sets in order to interpret the outcome of real-life business scenarios.

Head Tutor - University of Cape Town Business Analytics Course

IQmates

As a self-taught coder and sole founder, my responsibilities were/are:
•	Developing the online learning platforms backend and frontend: Website (and mobile site) and apps using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (React Native and Cordova), and JAVA programming languages 
•	Sourcing the online learning material from lecturers and tutors at MIT, and Khan Academy and signing contracts to cover the 25+ courses currently on offer for 16 000+ students currently registered (Personally, I recorded the well-received Astronomy, Machine Learning and Deep Learning courses)
•	Developing sustainable business models giving IQmates a R20 000 monthly revenue without charging students for the use of the site
•	Signing partnerships with relevant stakeholders in the education and corporate spaces
•	Verifying the collection process and accuracy of internal and external data to identify opportunities for growth, problems and solutions to resolve them
•	Keeping track of daily traffic to the website and analysing trends for new/returning users via tools such as Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics

Founder

TEDxJohannesburg

With the efforts in my edtech startup to democratise access to quality revision resources and creating a platform for students to revise together, I was awarded the TEDx1830 Fellowship.

1830 Fellow

The Founder Institute

12-week program, each week teaching different aspects relevant to forming a sustainable tech business.
Activities included:
- Attending weekly meetups with a week's mentors chosen from a range of CEOs and captains of industry
- Submission of weekly assignments to Founder Institute Silicon Valley with the week's topic
- Creating a strong network of stakeholders and influencers who were/are relevant to my start-up
- Presenting and getting feedback from mentors who have successfully run their own tech businesses
- Working in groups with other fellow founders
- Out of 76 applicants, 39 were selected into the program and 12 graduated

Graduate

IkamvaYouth

Volunteered to tutor Grade 12 Mathematics to underprivileged final year high school students.

Voluntary Tutor

•	Currently responsible for building the end-to-end Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence capability in our Private Banking division
•	I wrote algorithms that made use of public external data in combination with internal data to uncover opportunities for frontline bankers, for example uncovering over 250 000 potential clients who meet the required target market for the Specialist/Private Bank
•	Programming languages and tools I use: SQL, Python, R, QlikView, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Alteryx, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), 
•	I regularly present the findings to different stakeholders across the board and in different divisions of the bank
•	I run a weekly internal mailer to colleagues and executives from different divisions across the bank, educating them on relevant uses of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence and keeping them up to date with developments in the field.

Analytics and Data Science

Wits Business School Consulting Club

Chairman

Wits Business School

PDM Class Representative

BSc Computational and Applied Mathematics

Student

Vice Chair - Mathematical Sciences Student Council

Internship

I am a data scientist with 8 years of corporate experience. I had the mandate of rolling out Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence capabilities in Investec South Africa's Private Bank in order to future proof the business and at the same time uncover growth opportunities. Currently my focus is on figuring out data science projects making use of graph networks and generative AI to unlock opportunities and efficiencies for Investec's UK and Europe strategies. 
As someone who also runs a free educational platform with over  20 000 students and a strong believer in positive disruptions of technology, I run educational initiatives within the bank to up-skill colleagues  and executives from various departments to help them understand how to leverage ML/AI in their areas. I am also building an internal Insights Academy that is helping employees from different departments upskill and start analytics projects in their areas.

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