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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Vik Aggarwal

Vikinsa Capital Management

Founder, Technical Analyst & Trader and Portfolio Manager

Envisage Algo

Founder, Systematic & Algo Trader

Morgan Stanley

To facilitate the movement and settlement of cash wires Morgan Stanley International Prime Brokerage had a mission critical legacy suit of STP (Straight Through Processing) applications. This included internal and external enterprise java web applications.These systems needed a complete renovation before they could be integrated with Morgan Stanley PB Matrix Application.

Technical:
• Design & Development of modules for new version of PB Matrix Cash Entry application in Core Java (Spring, Hibernate, JUnit)
• Design & Development of Cash Entry mobile application using HTML5 to facilitate authorisation of cash wires over mobile devices.
• Development of Proof Of Concepts & Prototypes for PB Matrix Cash Entry application using Flex 3.
• Maintenance and development of mission critical legacy applications.
• Analyse, monitoring, benchmark and document to resolve complicated performance problems.
• Perform functional testing and system integration testing.

Functional:
• Interfacing with business unit sponsors to elicit requirements and document detailed deliverables.
• Business  & System Analysis & documentation of processes/systems
• Interaction with business units and global support teams regarding production issues and queries resolution to provide L3 support.
• Plan, manage and execute UAT/SIT and production releases (turnovers).

Highlights:
• Owned over 20 legacy components and systems
• Detected and fixed performance problems in new systems. Was able to improve performance by 1300% and 800% in 2 cases.
• Self-taught Flex 3 in a week and developed Proof Of Concepts & Prototypes for PB Matrix Cash Entry application

Technology Stack: 
Adobe Flex (Beginner’s Level), Core Java, Spring 3, JBoss Drools 5, Hibernate 3.3.2 , Struts, JUnit, Tomcat 5, Sybase, JDBC, Basic Shell, TSQL, Morgan Stanley OAM tool, Eclipse 3.1, Linux/Unix, Commons Libraries, SOAPTk (MS Proprietary SOAP Services Tool Kit) , MQ Series Manager API (MS Proprietary), Perforce, Agile Methodology

Technical Analyst (Prime Brokerage)

LeadsAndDeals.com (Leads and Deals Limited)

I single-handedly boot strapped, conceived, designed, developed, launched, marketed an International B2B Marketplace – LeadsandDeals.com

LeadsAndDeals.com helped SMEs by providing a very easy and cost effective global platform. It covered over 220 countries and 50 major global industries to connect international buyers with suppliers through its online business directories, product catalogues and trade leads. LeadsAndDeals.com was a global B2B marketplace connecting buyers with suppliers all over the world including China, Korea, India, United Kingdom, United States and more. 
Suppliers, manufacturers, exporters and service providers could join to promote their products and sell trade leads. It was also free for Buyers & importers to search and contact suppliers. They could also post their unlimited sourcing requirements to get direct quotes or offers from suppliers.
•	UI design using FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and hand-written HTML
•	Design and development of own J2EE (Oracle JRockit) based MVC custom framework (vikag) with built-in pluggable services e.g. security, email, notifications
•	Design and development of own custom JavaScript & CSS framework for speed and security Database designing, security and performance improvement
•	Cloud set up and load balancing across multiple regions with Cloudflare
•	Dedicated server security hardening
•	Functional, usability testing, UI testing, load testing, security penetration testing
•	Technical Research into latest ways to improve performance, security and user experience
•	Integrations of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo analytics
•	Integration of AdWords, AdSense, SendGrid, YouTube, Bing and various other APIs
•	SEO: Site Maps generation and automatic search engine submissions and ranking
•	Integration of PHP based WordPress suit to Java based main web portal
•	Active Clients from over 200 countries and regions
•	Average page load time under 3 seconds across the world
•	Over 50K Unique Users every month

Founder & CEO

Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse ExMan is a generic tool developed initially for Operations IT to manage work flow steps. Three separate regional instances of this tool were merged together without any business impacts. Global ExMan receives approximately 200K xml based messages per day via its JMS queues which are processed and presented on the GUI. Global ExMan was later enhanced to make it 80% configurable. This was later integrated with Retail banking and front office operation systems. A performance roadmap was created to improve throughput of Global ExMan by 3 times in year one.

Technical:
• Technical design & system analysis for consolidation of regional systems spread across the globe. 
• Prepare OOAD based technical design documents in UML
• Develop POC and present 321 implementation models.
• Design, development and deployment of code and database migrations scripts.
• Weblogic 10.3 configuration and administration for JMS connectivity.
• Development of Global ExMan performance strategies. Identified and fixed performance issues in both message processing and GUI.
• Responsible for design and development of new AJAX based reporting module.

Functional:
• Requirement gathering from regional stakeholders. Risk planning and mitigation.
• Requirement tracing and gap analysis
• Offshore team management (10 people) and delivery management.
• Engage on-site and offshore teams in knowledge sharing workshops.
• Status reporting to business.
• Reviews and UAT/SIT management

Highlights:
• Was appreciated by Credit Suisse for efforts and results.
• Designed, planned and executed migration of application from 32 bit Weblogic servers to 64 bit.
• Detected and fixed performance problems in the new system. JVM and Sever memory tuning.
• Created a performance improvement road map using Six Sigma DMAIC methodology.

Technology Stack:
J2EE, JSP, Servlets,EJB 2. Struts 1.2, Hibernate, Javascript, Ajax, Weblogic 8.1/10.3, Oracle10g, JMS, VisualVM, Jprofiler, RUP Methodology, UML, Rational Rose

Technical Manager (Operations IT)

To facilitate the movement and settlement of cash wires Morgan Stanley International Prime Brokerage had a mission critical legacy suit of STP (Straight Through Processing) applications. This included internal and external enterprise java web applications. Being a very competitive industry, a major renovation was needed. Various innovative modules with good looks, fast response times and security were created  to save cost, time and risk. 


Technical:
• Design and development of custom Ajax library to support new functionalities like Google Suggest search style search and an interactive grid to facilitate fast wire submissions.
• Responsible for design and development of new AJAX, Soap, enterprise Java based modules in suit of cash applications.
• Development and presentation of Proof of Concepts (POCs).
• Development of middleware services based on MQ.

Functional:
• Interfacing with business unit sponsors to elicit requirements and document detailed deliverables. 
• Business and system analysis
• Offshore and on-site co-ordinations with development and test teams.
• Plan, manage and execute UAT and production releases (turnovers).
• Responsible for change & configuration management, reviews and functional testing
• Work with global support teams for plan maintenance and support

Highlights:
•  Was appreciated several times for my efforts and results.
• Designed and developed an Object Oriented Javascript based custom AJAX library (11K Lines Of Code) for Morgan Stanley provide richer user experience.
•  Re-designed and developed several business critical applications used by Hedge Funds and Internal Operations Team. These resulted in approximately 50% savings in huge costs and risks.

Technology Stack:
J2EE, Struts 1.2, Javascript, Ajax, Tomcat 5, JUnit, Servlet Exec, Sybase, TSQL, Morgan Stanley, Linux/Unix, Commons Libraries, SOAPTk (MS Proprietary SOAP Services) , MQ Series Manager API (MS Proprietary), Perforce, Agile

Technical Lead (Prime Brokerage Custody Systems)

GE Commercial Finance

GE Commercial Finance (Reigate, UK) is in the business of the Invoice Discounting and Asset Based lending product types. I was involved in architecting, developing and mentoring a J2EE web based front end for external users, clients and banks. The application was designed to provide maximum performance under load, share the database with desktop application, good-looking interface.

Technical:
• System analysis and documentation of existing systems.
• Perform OOAD to come up with use cases, UML diagrams and present them to stakeholders.
• Responsible for architecture, design and development of new Struts based web GUI.
• Designed several modules of Power Builder based desktop GUI.
• Development and presentation of Proof of Concepts (POCs).
• Coding, Implementation, Integration, Functional Testing & Reviews
• Post Implementation Support

Functional:
• Work closely with business for requirement gathering and risk mitigation
• Manage a team of 7 people at offshore
• Change management
• Configuration Management
• Status Reporting
• Manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Highlights:
1. Was appreciated for efforts and results several times by GE Commercial Finance.
2. Designed a strategy to rewrite CGI-PERL based legacy systems to J2EE systems and host it on both weblogic and jboss.

Technology Stack:
Java, Jakarta-Struts, JSP, Servlets, EJB (2.0), Struts Tag Lib, Weblogic 8.1 and 7.0, MS-SQL Server 2000, Eclipse 3.0, UML, Rational Rose, Kintana, Test Director, RUP Methodology

Project Lead/Technical Architect (Invoice Discounting, Asset Based Lending)

Skyweb India Limited

Web development and design of HTML, Perl and Java Servlet based applications

Web Architect

With more than 15 years of vast experience in the Finance Industry working for multinational top-trier investment banks and their hedge funds clients, Vik found a natural affinity to financial markets. 

He started learning financial trading himself with his financial background knowledge in 2011 alongside his regular job. After quitting his award-winning career (GE Commercial Finance, NBC-USA, e-Businessware Inc., Credit Suisse, and Morgan Stanley ) in the investment bank in 2014, he started manual trading and the development of sophisticated trading algorithms for himself.

Vik initially traded the London AIM stock market for some time where he traded a few stocks such as QPP, QFI, AFS, SEE, and TOM successfully but soon realised that most of the AIM market was extremely volatile and usually had very low liquidity. He then started trading FTSE 100 heavyweights (Barclays and Lloyds) shares to avoid manipulations and volatility however they did not have as many opportunities as Forex, commodities, indices, and derivatives markets. As technical and market analysis knowledge that he gained could be applied to any market he found himself more at home with the forex, indices, commodities, US stocks, and forex options.

Over time he has built a great track record in analysing commodities, metals, indices, forex and cryptos markets with great accuracy and publishes his work via his various social channels. His gold and dollar analyses are some of the most accurate and well-documented ones.

He has trained over 30 select few committed budding and experienced traders from all over the globe including seasoned Chicago pit options traders with 35 years of experience, multi-million dollar portfolio owners, business tycoons and some of the best top managing directors and portfolio managers. He is passionate about education as he believes that market analysis is a skill that can be taught and used in the markets effectively.

He has founded a start-up firm Vikinsa Capital Management in London with the goal of turning it into one of the best market analysis, trading, hedge fund, and education firms.

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