mohammed sameer ballim, CEO

mohammed sameer ballim

CEO

Qwest business Solutions

Location
South Africa
Education
Diploma, Investment management
Experience
23 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 4 Months

CEO at Qwest business Solutions
  • South Africa
  • My current job since January 2014

coinsumer research

Gap analysis
Business strategy
customer feedback analysis

consultant at kzn resins
  • South Africa
  • January 2015 to December 2016

 Initial valuations of business
 Operational efficiency implementation
 Production efficiency organisation
 Value chain assessment
 Financial cost impact assessment.
 Inventory management and process controls.
 Stock control and goods handling
 Warehouse layout and optimal placement of products for efficient goods handling.
 Documenting financials and creating better financial outcomes
 Liaising with production to focus on downtime occurrences and implementing corrective measures
 Sales strategy: Client product correlation and demographic identification.
 Logistical organisation, route and cost planning
 Staff management
 Liaising on “C” level.
 Business Plans
 Funding applications
 Business strategy

consultant at gsc energy
  • South Africa
  • December 2013 to January 2014

Solar Project in Cameroon $2bn over 25 years
Creating a business model to attract investors into the project
Interacting with a German consortium and giving them feedback on the project.

Country manager at Cyclone Industries
  • Zambia
  • January 2013 to December 2013

 Handling logistics to and from South Africa
 Meeting with suppliers in South Africa to negotiate product for the Zambian market, including Arcelor Mittal and Group Five
 Working out budgets for the company in Lusaka
 Creating Sales strategies for the companies products.

Sales Trader at CKS equities
  • South Africa
  • January 2006 to November 2013

 Prop Trading / Day Trading
 Company closed down November 2013
 Also assist a client who does arbitrage on the London desk, executing and advising on the South African shares.
 Infinity capital markets : Chris Gates, Mathew Byrom
 Began 2006 January
 Company closed down

Sales Trader/ Stockbroker at Sanlam Capital Markets
  • South Africa
  • January 2001 to December 2005

 Responsibilities included showing deal flow to institutions on a daily basis in order to generate income for the company.
 Part of a relatively small team, so I was involved in the sales trading and trading function for various South African and international institutions.(Daron Walker)
 Also managed to achieve a good customer base while at SCM (Kagiso Asset Management, SIM, Liberty)
 Was involved in sales trading, clients included Sanlam Investment Managers (Brian Boer), and Kagiso Asset managers (Jihaad Jhaveri)
 End 2005 December

Education

Diploma, Investment management
  • at university of witwatersrand
  • July 2004

Specialties & Skills

Research
Equity Trading
Investments
Financials
Trade Sales
networking
business Strategy

Languages

English
Expert
Afrikaans
Expert
Arabic
Beginner