SNV · Global Business Strategy & Risk Lead
Designing investment governance from a blank page
SNV, a global development organisation working across 26 countries, had never invested its reserves. Over a two-year mandate I ran the feasibility study that identified c.40% of reserves as investable capital, sole-authored the Governance Framework for a first EUR 5m listed equity allocation (investment criteria, exclusions, SFDR classification, engagement expectations for the manager, committee structure, due diligence, exit strategy), and ran the procurement that appointed the external asset manager from four bidders.
Approved by the Executive Team and Supervisory Board; the full fund-operations cycle delivered, from policy design to manager appointment and deployment of the first EUR 5m.
Investment governanceFund operationsESG
Degas · Chief Operating Officer
Leading the finance workstream of a USD 15m raise
Degas needed growth capital that matched a two-continent operating reality. The raise totalled USD 15m: USD 10m of Japanese venture equity and a USD 5m working-capital facility from a Ghanaian commercial bank, across three currencies. The CEO led the investor negotiations. I led the finance workstream: I built the financial model and unit economics behind the raise, ran investor diligence, and set up the reporting and governance the investors required.
USD 15m raised: USD 10m of equity and a USD 5m bank facility. Recovery had already reached 95%, up from 76%, before the raise closed, and the Nestlé offtake contract I negotiated made the business more investable.
Capital raisingFinancial modellingInvestor relations
Degas · Chief Operating Officer
Taking loan recovery from 76% to 97%
Recovery across a fast-growing smallholder input-credit portfolio had to improve without slowing growth. I commissioned and oversaw an AI-based credit scoring system linking yield data, climate-risk exposure, and repayment history, and rebuilt portfolio monitoring around cohort-based risk analysis and disciplined routines.
Recovery rose from 76% to 97% and held above 95% as the portfolio grew to 46,000+ farmers across c.20,000 hectares.
Credit riskPortfolio managementAI & data
SNV · Global Business Strategy & Risk Lead
Building the business cases behind two new revenue lines
To reduce dependence on traditional donor funding, I built the financial business case template adopted across three new revenue lines (carbon finance, commercial value chain services, and investment-linked advisory), then authored all three financial models: hurdle rates set from the opportunity cost of reserves plus a risk premium, multiple-scenario NPV, IRR, breakeven year, and peak funding requirement.
SNV has since approved two of the three and hired two principals to lead them.
Strategic financeFinancial modellingBusiness cases
Deloitte · YCP Solidiance
Seven years in audit, transactions, and strategy
Fifty-plus engagements across two firms: cross-border M&A, valuation, commercial due diligence, PPP structuring, and market-entry strategy for corporates, PE funds, and DFIs across Asia and the Middle East. IC-ready models and board-level recommendations under transaction scrutiny.
Transactions up to USD 688.5m at Deloitte and IC-ready models for a EUR 400m acquisition at YCP Solidiance; promoted twice at each firm, reaching Country Lead at YCP Solidiance in 27 months.
Selected transactions
Deloitte
- Financial due diligence and post-merger integration for a USD 688.5m beverage-sector acquisition in the Philippines
- Financial due diligence for a Taiwanese strategic investor's 20% stake in a Philippine commercial bank
- Due diligence and valuation on a Philippine hospital group for an emerging-markets impact investor
- Reviewed the financials and built the equity-return model for a Singapore-based PE fund's wind-energy investment
- Built the project finance model for a waste-to-energy PPP in Malaysia, including the financing and IFRIC 12 service-concession modules
- Valuation of 20 companies for a Philippine restaurant group's share-swap consolidation
YCP Solidiance
- Built the IC-ready model for a European luxury automotive group's EUR 400m market-entry acquisition
- Built the USD 350m fundraising and valuation model for a Middle East e-commerce platform
- Buy-side screening and commercial due diligence on six ASEAN targets for a German industrial group
M&ADue diligenceStrategy consulting
