SGM Holdings 

Energy  - Commodities Trading 
Finance - Market Analyses, Trading and Investing 
Media - PR and Marketing

Founder

Brave Web

At Brave Web, we believe that exceptional web design shouldn't come with an astronomical price tag. Harnessing the capabilities of advanced AI technology, we craft captivating websites that resonate with your vision and fit within your financial scope. Say goodbye to compromise and hello to digital excellence – all without breaking the bank.

Co-Founder

Filling Station License

Are you looking to establish or renew your filling station business in South Africa? Look no further! At Filling Station License, we specialize in providing top-notch site, retail, change of ownership and wholesale licensing services that streamline the process and pave the way for your success. We connect you with the Oil Majors as well as the largest Independent Fuel companies.

"FUELING JOURNEYS, POWERING FUTURES" and transitioning the fuel retail industry.

NFT Today Magazine

NFT Today Magazine is an international media publication covering the latest NFT, Crypto & Blockchain news.

Editor in Chief

AMS Trader

AMS Trader - Eco System for novice traders and investors www.amstrader.co.za 🚀📈

Founder (Exit) 

WR Capital 

WR Capital (Pty) Ltd encompasses over 25 years of combined business and trading experience. Born from the desire to escape the rat race of the corporate world, the company raises capital which it trades across various local and international markets, using its advanced technical trading software and investing for growth using its business acumen.

Founder and Trader

Bright Day

Seed funding and Business Mentor to Bright Day (Mobile Grooming), delivering high class, boutique grooming to discerning clientele. 

Facebook @BrightDay

Business Mentor

Makwande Energy Trading 

Business Development Executive

The Elegant Group

Driving operational excellence through executing senior leadership, solid knowledge of the petroleum wholesale industry, business management experience and grounded knowledge of legal and financial principles and theories to achieve corporate objectives.
Managing all operations relating to a group of companies with a national footprint in the energy industry.
Initiating aggressive commercial and retail growth phases through efficiently planning and executing business, supply, sales and marketing strategies and projects.
Executing dynamic entrepreneurial orientation and ability to identify and pursue profit generating business opportunities.
Leading, mentoring, managing and directing a team of motivated staff focussed on achieving corporate objectives.
Managing and directing Employment Equity programme, policies and procedures: Chair of EE Committee.

Group Director

SGI is a 51% black woman owned project management company focusing on BEE strategy and implementation, zoning, environmental impact assessments, business strategy, fuel retail licenses and other related services. 

Involved in first phase funding without equity as well as day to day mentoring.

Serial entrepreneur lucky enough to see trends before they happen and media guy at SGM 🎙️

I see trends before they happen | Building sustainable business in Energy, Finance and Media | Founder SGM Holdings 

Host of the Stonks Go Moon Podcast 🔊📺
https://linktr.ee/SGMPODCAST

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Rocco Strydom

dragin

President & CEO

Edit: We're expanding! If you are a Python developer and are interested in a full time developer role, please reach out.

Exciting brand new start-up Dragin takes application automation to an entirely new level. We leverage machine learning, NLP, web scrapping, and more to streamline and speed up online application processing.

I manage a small but incredibly talented team of six developers. We run on AWS. We code in Python and React. ORM > DB. Docker is cool. Full stacks for life!

Chief Operating Officer & Chief Technology Officer

ScriptUni

If you are looking for an entry level job in finance or to get into a top tier masters program look no further. ScriptUni provides you not only with applicable coding skills, but teaches them in a way that presents you as someone with real work experience - even though you have never used these languages!

You will learn how to build and optimize portfolios, code ABS pricers, and more! 

Sign up today at ScriptUni.com

CEO / Founder

Numerix

A short but very rewarding stint at an amazing FinTech company.
If you're interested in this software, I strongly encourage you reach out to Saul Stepner.

Vice President

Morgan Stanley

Vice President | S&T Securities Lending Desk Strategist & Quantitative Developer

I have the coolest job in the world. I am a S7 certified sec lending sales/trader at the best bank in the world. My primary role is to make the desk more automated, smoother, and improve the reporting to clients.

2018 my job revolved around designing and automating Excel/VBA/SQL reports that go out to our clients. 

2019-2020 was all about data engineering. Building tables, views, SPs, and tons of other back-end processes that just make every run.

Senior Associate | S&T Securities Lending Desk Strategist & Quantitative Developer

Baruch College

Master's in Financial Engineering Program
Adjunct Professor for Python: 2015 to 2019
Workshop Instructor for VBA/SQL: 2013 to 2019

Adjunct Professor | Software Engineering for Finance

State Street

•	Daily reconciliation of client portfolios valuation and risk with previous days and market prices
•	Mapping of new client traded instruments to ensure all inputs flow nicely into our risk system
•	Solving client inquired related to portfolio/instrument risk and valuations
•	Investigate and repair issues causing instruments to misvalue. This can be attributed to: poor mapping, incorrect scaling from administrators, bad market data curves, etc.

Officer | Client Services Quantitative Analyst

•	January 2015 - December 2015: Market Risk Testing
Managed the testing of new traded products, new risk analytics tools, and all other items that would impact risk production. Project management and reconciliation of test results with VaR/Greeks from production
•	January 2014 -  January 2015: Market Risk iTeam
Built out new functionality for Market and Credit Risk including a Country CDS daily risk report Qlikview dashboard, Incremental Risk Charge Qlikview risk report, and project request automation via Sharepoint
•	April 2013 - January 2014: Risk IT Business Analyst
Primary job function was understanding risk manager's requests for IT, writing pseudocode/spec, and managing the projects for the IT team

Market Risk Analyst

•	Assisted clients in pricing instruments, conducting portfolio valuation, and calculating Greeks
•	Consistently solved client issues within the scope of Cross Asset, Liquid Asset, and Portfolio
•	Performed model review on Numerix Cross Asset pricing models

Intern | Quantitative Support Analyst

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