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Personal blog on learnings and musings: http://pineapplesareinmyhead.blogspot.com/ 10 Years of B2B sales experience and 6 years of management. Leading the UK sales team in growing Foodles presence across UK. Prior to that, I joined Crowdcube to help facilitate the growth of the most exciting startups in Europe. Since joining Crowdcube, I've helped over 100 companies raise capital from retail investors, and have met over 1000 European startups. Passionate about pre-seed and seed startups with ability to build network effects and the potential to be category-defining, I have been investing (extremely small tickets) in European startups since 2019, with portfolio including Freetrade, Nothing Technology, Ecologi, Oxwash, Earthly, Taster, Auddy, Howbout, HumanForest, Taxscouts, HyperionDev, Breedr, InvestEngine amongst others. I previously founded a B2B focused meal ordering app in South Africa, which processed over 7000 transactions and was nominated for multiple awards. Before that, I worked in the private bank division of Investec Bank, and am passionately involved in multiple young leader communities, like One Young World, Google Ambassador programme, and the African Union - European Union Youth Hub, in which our team is helping facilitate the incubation of over 100 agritech and renewable energy startups in North and West Africa. Diverse academic background spanning health and business, with Masters degree in Management of Innovation and Technology the most recent.  Previously a contributor to South Africa's Entrepreneur Magazine. These 2 quotes epitomize how I try perceive life: “It doesn’t matter if I don’t touch a million people’s lives, as long as I touch that one that touches a million”. "Some see things as they are and ask 'Why?' I dream things that never were and ask 'Why Not?'"