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Hi,

I would appreciate your feedback regarding my profile.

- 28 year year old white male from South Africa.
- Qualifications: Chartered Accountant (CA)SA, CFA 3 candidate December 2020.
- Work experience: 3.5 years Deloitte Audit. 3 years in South Africa. 6 months in USA. Star rated performer, single individual from Deloitte Africa Financial Services selected to partake in a 6 month secondment to San Francisco, offered permanent whilst there.
- Industry exposure: predominately private equity, investment banking and asset management sector.
- GRE: V155 Q160 (planning on retaking)
- GPA: 3.3
- Leadership: Represented and captained South Africa in Squash in the following noteworthy tournaments; US Open, British Open, Canadian Open, Scottish Open. Leader of various mission trips around Africa for church.
- Other: Co-founded Silverwood Capital (Pty) Ltd. Investment holding company currently invested directly in real estate and local and international equities.
- Reason for MBA: Career progression as well as creating a network in Europe. Interested in the electives that have a focus on African investment.
- Target schools: Oxford Said and LBS.

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Hi,

I would appreciate your feedback regarding my profile.

- 28 year year old white male from South Africa.
- Qualifications: Chartered Accountant (CA)SA, CFA 3 candidate December 2020.
- Work experience: 3.5 years Deloitte Audit. 3 years in South Africa. 6 months in USA. Star rated performer, single individual from Deloitte Africa Financial Services selected to partake in a 6 month secondment to San Francisco, offered permanent whilst there.
- Industry exposure: predominately private equity, investment banking and asset management sector.
- GRE: V155 Q160 (planning on retaking)
- GPA: 3.3
- Leadership: Represented and captained South Africa in Squash in the following noteworthy tournaments; US Open, British Open, Canadian Open, Scottish Open. Leader of various mission trips around Africa for church.
- Other: Co-founded Silverwood Capital (Pty) Ltd. Investment holding company currently invested directly in real estate and local and international equities.
- Reason for MBA: Career progression as well as creating a network in Europe. Interested in the electives that have a focus on African investment.
- Target schools: Oxford Said and LBS.

Thank you!
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JJBrink hi,
My name is Shimri Winters and I head the strategy here at ARINGO (I'm also an LBS alumnus and was part of their interviewing committee for 7 years)
I really like your profile for many reasons
    - Good undergraduate, reasonable GPA
    - I too played Squash for my national under 16 team - you can tell a lot about an individual sport, but a whole team is behind you
    - CFA would be great and would demonstrate your analytical capabilities
    - Deloitte is a great brand, and you worked in the US and interacted with various international and multinational teams and clients
    - Career goals - definitely go for some sort of "Africa investments" (we need to dig in here and find something "tight". and if your Deloitte work (and Silverwood Capital) exposed you to private equity or asset management, you can explain how you want to shift to there
    - GRE a bit low (but GRE averages are lower than GMATs so don't be discouraged)

If you raise the GRE by a couple of points, you have a great chance of making it into Said or LBS
I would love to talk to you further and see if we can work together
If interested to discuss further, please ping me on shimriw@ARINGO.com
GOOD LUCK!