You have recently moved out of finance. What is your current position?

I am managing the Hello Paisa Malawi Corridor in its entirety, reporting to our MD Sayjil Magan. I handle every aspect of the corridor (Sales, Customers Experience, Brand Awareness, Pricing, Budgeting, In-country Operations, Partner Relationships, as well as the safeguarding of Company assets).

I have inherited a splendid Team of Individuals that make this possible. I call them the Dream Team, and I am incredibly proud and privileged to be working with them daily. In unison, these 5 key personnel (Cornelius Du Plesis, Wouter Combrinck, Karishma Gandhi, Abdul-Azeez Bassa and Yeshen Gounder) oversee a headcount of:

and this recipe produces that do more than 80,000 transactions a month.

I focus primarily on meeting the growth expectations

for the Malawian corridor set by our Executive Committee every annum. Even though these expectations are expressed in numbers and KPI’s and look quite simple, it consists of a plethora of sub deliverables that must happen in synergy, combined with a lot of faith, nerves and blessings from above. I am still learning every single day and humbly thank our Leadership for backing me and giving me the opportunity to apply myself.