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Projects and engagements spanning investment advisory, legal structuring, compliance, and AI-augmented workflows.

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Featured work

Engagements that define the practice

Highlighted projects that demonstrate how finance, law, and technology converge to create measurable impact for clients and organisations.

Finance
2026

Risk Metrics Explainer

Designed and shipped an interactive explainer that turns abstract portfolio-risk concepts into manipulable scenarios. The app helps readers see how Sharpe ratio, VaR, CVaR, Sortino ratio, and max drawdown respond to changing assumptions instead of encountering the metrics as s...

Outcome

Converted a dense risk-education topic into a hands-on learning tool that makes portfolio trade-offs legible in minutes.

RiskPortfolio TheoryInteractive App+1
Advisory
2025

SA Risk Management Playbook

Built an interactive risk management playbook written for South Africa's actual operating conditions — twin peaks regulation, load shedding, FATF greylisting, and a crime environment that makes standard BCP templates inadequate. Covers governance (SARB/FSCA, POPIA, FICA/AML),...

Outcome

Produced a reference-grade enterprise risk tool used for advisory engagements with SA financial services and corporate clients.

Risk ManagementEnterprise RiskSouth Africa+2
Finance
2026

SA Demand Planning Dashboard

Built a fully interactive demand planning dashboard scoped to South African retail conditions — SA-specific vendors (Tiger Brands, Sasko, Willowton, SC Johnson SA, Nestlé SA), ZAR values, and Durban port lead-time risk baked in. Features a live safety stock calculator using th...

Outcome

Turned a complex operations discipline into a hands-on, explorable tool that planners can use to understand safety stock trade-offs, forecast confi...

Demand PlanningSupply ChainSA Retail+2
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FeaturedFinance
2026

Risk Metrics Explainer

Designed and shipped an interactive explainer that turns abstract portfolio-risk concepts into manipulable scenarios. The app helps readers see how Sharpe ratio, VaR, CVaR, Sortino ratio, and max drawdown respond to c...

Outcome

Converted a dense risk-education topic into a hands-on learning tool that makes portfolio trade-offs legible in minutes.

RiskPortfolio Theory+2
FeaturedAdvisory
2025

SA Risk Management Playbook

Built an interactive risk management playbook written for South Africa's actual operating conditions — twin peaks regulation, load shedding, FATF greylisting, and a crime environment that makes standard BCP templates...

Outcome

Produced a reference-grade enterprise risk tool used for advisory engagements with SA financial services and corporat...

Risk ManagementEnterprise Risk+3
FeaturedFinance
2026

SA Demand Planning Dashboard

Built a fully interactive demand planning dashboard scoped to South African retail conditions — SA-specific vendors (Tiger Brands, Sasko, Willowton, SC Johnson SA, Nestlé SA), ZAR values, and Durban port lead-time ris...

Outcome

Turned a complex operations discipline into a hands-on, explorable tool that planners can use to understand safety st...

Demand PlanningSupply Chain+3
Skills & expertise

Core competencies across disciplines

A decade of finance experience, legal training, and hands-on AI development create a unique skill profile that bridges traditionally siloed domains.

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Financial Analysis

Portfolio management, capital markets, and quantitative modelling across asset classes.

85%

Legal Structuring

Regulatory compliance, fund structuring, and cross-border legal coordination.

78%

AI & Automation

LLM integration, AI-assisted workflows, and automated due diligence pipelines.

88%

Risk & Compliance

FSCA frameworks, risk scoring models, and regulatory sandbox analysis.

82%

Investment Advisory

Strategic counsel on M&A, fund formation, and portfolio optimisation.

75%

Technical Prototyping

Next.js dashboards, Python models, and V0-assisted tooling.

Methodology

How the work gets done

Every engagement follows a structured approach that combines interdisciplinary thinking, quantitative rigour, and technology-driven execution. These pillars ensure consistent quality and measurable outcomes.

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Interdisciplinary Analysis

Every engagement begins at the intersection of finance and law. By combining both lenses, risks and opportunities surface that single-discipline approaches routinely miss.

02

Data-Driven Decision Making

Quantitative rigour underpins every recommendation. Whether building risk scorecards or optimisation models, the output is always grounded in measurable, auditable metrics.

03

Technology as Leverage

AI and modern development tools are not novelties; they are force multipliers. Every project explores how technology can compress timelines, increase accuracy, and reduce manual overhead.

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Client-Centric Outcomes

Outputs are designed for the people who use them, not the people who build them. Dashboards, frameworks, and models prioritise clarity and actionability over technical sophistication.

Every engagement is an opportunity to demonstrate that finance and law are not separate practices — they are complementary tools for creating lasting value.

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