BARRY MORISSE CA(SA)
www.barrymorisse.com-
EDUCATION
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University of the Witwatersrand (2016 – Current)
Post-Grad: Masters in Philosophy (Applied Ethics)
Coursework: Methods of Applied Ethics, Information and Privacy, Ethical Theory, Morality
and the Marketplace, Social Justice.
Thesis: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Moral Personhood
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University of the Witwatersrand (2011 – 2014)
Post-Grad: Honours in Accounting (HDipAcc – 2014).
Under-Grad: Bachelor of Accounting Science (BAccSci -)
Coursework: Financial and Management Accounting, Tax, Economics, Marketing, Auditing.
Tertiary
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Tertiary
WORK EXPERIENCE
Arete Advisors - Management Consultant
Arete Advisors provides key strategic consulting to small and medium businesses throughout
South Africa. The hands-on collaboration process with clients is in an attempt to nurture real
long-term partnerships that assist companies to scale and reach their full potential.
Across a number of clients, my role includes work on strategy development, fundraising
proposals, sourcing relevant investors, balance sheet restructuring, pricing development solutions
and M&A advisory amongst others.
03/2020 - Present
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06/2018 – 03/2020
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En-novate Global (Worldwide) - Experience Lead
En-novate offers high impact immersion trips for South African entrepreneurs and business
leaders to the world’s most progressive cities, innovative companies, and disruptive start-ups.
These trips have delivered new investment opportunities, raised money from VC’s, new supplier
relationships, numerous deal closures and a wealth of knowledge-sharing.
My role is to design and facilitate these global immersion trips to 11 cities around the world.
This includes setting up a bespoke itinerary that matches the client’s needs, networking in the
destination city to set up the most relevant business engagements, and facilitating the week on the
ground to ensure a two way value exchange.
01/2018 – 03/2018
• The RMB
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RMB FOUNDeRY (Johannesburg) - Business Analyst
FOUNDeRY is the research and development unit for Rand Merchant Bank – aiming
to innovate and disrupt within the Investment Banking Industry. Focused on blockchain
technology, data science, artificial intelligence, systems infrastructure and experience design.
I worked as a business analyst on a machine-learning based fraud detection system which
identified anomalous behaviour within the bank’s transactions and reported those to the team
who could then investigate. Our solution reduced the amount of human intervention by 70% and
reduced false positives by 90%.
My role included product design, business case development, market research and project
management – forming the link between the Investment Bank itself, the software developers and
the data scientists.
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02/2015 – 12/2017
First Rand Bank (Johannesburg) - CA Trainee
• Completed my 3 years of articles and qualified as a Chartered
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Accountant. I passed both board
exams on the first attempt.
In the programme I rotated through various roles in the FirstRand group – giving me a wide
range of exposure to the entire financial services landscape.
Rotations:
Company
First National Bank
Rand Merchant Bank
Rand Merchant Bank
Ashburton Investments
FirstRand Limited
FirstRand Limited
Rand Merchant Bank
FirstRand Limited
Rand Merchant Bank
Position
Premier and Business Banking
Internal Audit – Equity Prime Broking
Market Risk
Budgets
Group Treasury - Capital Management
Taxation - Insurance and Asset Management
Credit – Large Corporates
Group Consolidations
The Foundery – Data Science and AI
12/2012 – 01/2013
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MGI Pacific (Shanghai, China) - Business Development Manager
Crafted the firm’s strategy in expanding their real estate marketing products into Africa.
Modelled and tracked the firm’s online marketing performance metrics, in order to optimise their
R.O.I across social media and the internet at large. Conducted a sophisticated keyword analysis
project, which resulted in a significant improvement in our website’s search engine rankings.
TRAINING
09/2017
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06/2016
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DoSchool Future of Work Doathon - Delegate
Selected as one of 15 young leaders from around the world to attend a doathon in Berlin,
Germany focused around the future of work.
During the doathon we debated and discussed various ideas surrounding the impact that
automation and artificial intelligence is going to have on the workplace and society as a whole.
Brightest Young Minds (BYM) - Delegate
Selected as one of 100 young delegates from 14 African countries to attend the 2016 BYM
Summit and join the alumni network of Brightest Young Minds.
During the summit we debated and workshopped various possible solutions for social problems
facing the continent. Some of these problems included education, poverty, agriculture, job
creation, health and many more.
At the end of the summit we competed to present one of our solutions to a panel of judges. Our
solution was voted into 3rd place and as a result we had the opportunity to pitch our idea to
government in Pretoria. I stepped away from the project to focus on completing my CA but
through some of my fellow group members, the solution is currently being implemented.
OTHER
I regularly write essays on my blog on various topics, including philosophy, economics, business, creative writing, etc.
I run a theatre club which organises group theatre events for shows in Johannesburg.
I have a weekly podcast discussing current events, technology and personal development.
I sing in the Johannesburg Symphony Choir.
I play high-level field hockey in the Gauteng Premier League.
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