Alan is educated in Business and Financial Management, as well as General Banking – his most recent educational intervention involved spending a month at ‘Insead Business School’ in France and Singapore further enhancing his strategy and leadership skills. He has 25 years of experience in the banking industry, mostly spent between Citibank, where he headed Citibank’s sales efforts in the mid-sized corporate market, and at Nedbank where he currently leads the Client Engagement, Sales and Channel Management efforts on behalf of the bank as it relates to their small business, professional, medical and non-resident banking segments.

From a personal perspective, Alan is married with one teenage child, he spends most of his free time with his family in the ‘outdoors’ either mountain biking, golfing, boating, adventure riding and so on. His biggest ‘outdoors’ achievement is the completion of the Cape Epic mountain bike stage race.

Raghmah is a 36-year-old married woman. Raghmah sees herself as an effective line manager who can get the best out of people. She is very direct. She sees herself as insightful and she can understand things quickly. She is good at connecting the dots. Raghmah has an eye for visual detail, is good with numbers and backs her ability to plan. She is perceptive about what is happening around her and can identify trends. She states that she is able to “consume an enormous amount of information” which she finds liberating. She loves to learn.

When her business is not going according to plan, Raghmah will call her business coach and explore areas that can be improved and existing strategies that may not be working. She will tackle the biggest challenge first and slowly chip away at the problem until it becomes manageable. Raghmah says that she is blessed with a “killer team” who rally together and can achieve anything that they put their minds to. Raghmah has recently been through some trying times. The business was struggling but she was too ill to get out of bed. She managed to arrange food drop offs for herself from friends and family and she briefed a colleague who took over the management of the company for a month.

This taught her what true vulnerability is and she came to appreciate all her blessings. She has learned that to give people her best she needs to be the best version of herself. She lost staff, family, friends and almost her husband over this Covid-19 period. She also lost revenue for the first time in her life. Despite this, she persevered and never gave up. This has proved to her that she is not a quitter. Raghmah scored well on the locus of control measure. People with a high locus of control tend to take responsibility for how things turn out in their lives. Raghmah understands that the faster she can achieve business stability, the bigger her profits will be. This will ultimately lead to business growth.

Greg is the CEO of G&G Pro – The Goosebumps Company. Greg’s personal vision is to inspire goosebumps and uplift others to thrive. As a company, G&G believes in the euphoric power of music on a grand stage to spread goosebumps and create unforgettable memories.

To achieve this G&G owns and produces immersive events with mind-blowing productions and provides brand partners unparalleled exposure with a passionate and engaged audience.

Some particular highlights include Rage Festival, Ballito BIG Week, event partnerships with DJ Shimza (Shimza & Friends and KUNYE) and Zakes Bantwini (ABANTU) along with a 21-year track record of hundreds of local and international events featuring thousands of performers and more than 100 international artists.