March 2015

Monday 9 March 2015

Meet Tendai Zhanda - Alternative Channels Profit Centre Manager

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Hi my name is Tendai Zhanda. I studied at UCT and have a passion for analytics & business processes. I am a very passionate and enthusiastic individual, driven by the will to win and succeed. I love pushing my body to limit and being the best person I I can be. My philosophy in life is to 'Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today'. I'm a student of life and enjoy what I do. I'm truly blessed to have a strong support system at home & in my professional career.

Friday 6 March 2015

Meet Sachin Mothilal - Outbound Profit Centre Manager

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Hi Champions My name is Sachin Mothilal.

I head up the call centre at CDA and I’m passionate about people and sales. I started as a sales consultant at O’Keeffe and Swartz from where I moved into Sales Management, before joining CDA. At CDA I realised that there is a great opportunity to grow and develop as a leader, support the sales force and subsequently we have doubled the call centre during the last 3 years. We’re a relatively small team managing the call centre, which means that we are very hands-on when it comes to recruiting, training and motivating the guys doing the hard work on the phone. The pressure is significant and morale is a key factor in determining the call centre and the consultants’ success. The work ethic and culture in the call centre determines its sustainability.

Consistent leading and motivating a team is key, especially in a sales environment. Everyday new day starts with a decision to use whatever I have to develop myself and to care for and be a support to everyone I meet. I believe that there is hidden potential within everyone and it’s my goal to help people realise their own purpose, build their skills, grow and develop to achieve their own goals. With a positive mindset and remaining focused, anyone can turn their dream into a reality.

Being a sales person is not for the faint hearted, I’ve been there and I have worked with many great sales people. The key is to find ways to stay motivated, make sure your thoughts and actions match your goals. We are all just human and whenever you let yourself down, remember it’s a long road and tomorrow is another day to start over, so be kind to yourself and stay on the road. Believe in yourself, be good to yourself, be true to yourself!

On a personal note, I’m a dedicated family man and I love spending time with my kids and beautiful wife. I love fishing and the tranquillity and anticipation of waiting for the big catch, when it happens I’ll probably scare the fish into submission with one of my special “motivational war cries”!

Make things happen champions!

Thursday 5 March 2015

Alex Devezas- ODDS Profit Centre Manager

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Alex Devezas

ODDS Profit Centre Manager

Business and Predictive Analytics

“Putting the ODDS in your favour”

A glimpse into the Personal Life, of Alex

A likely story, and probably true

I was born at a very early age, need more be said.

A husband and father, to an incredible wife and two amazing boys; I am truly blessed.

A Christian family man, who thankfully found an innovative work family, at a home away from home.

A glimpse into the work life, of Alex

An unlikely story, and definitely true

A natural born leader, with an entrepreneurial flair and a passion to match.

I’m good at what I do, and do what I’m good at. I too love what I do, and do what I love; I am truly blessed.

ODDS Profit Centre Synopsys

CDA developed a unique Scoring Model designed for Business Sustainability that balances the interests of our Corporate Clients; favouring all by driving the best ROI for each Direct Marketing Initiative.

ODDS allows us to score each customer without infringing on their rights to Protection of Personal Information.

We manage the Underwriters’ expectations by delivering conversions and persistency while properly utilising the list owner’s data efficiently, by designing a recommended marketing strategy as tailor-made campaigns, ensuring the direct marketing channel’s responses make these campaigns profitable to all.

ODDS is a fast growing monster with such potential, the possibilities are endless and our dreams are boundless.

It’s an exciting opportunity that I’m privileged to head, and eager to feed.

CDA ž Leagues Ahead ž Pathing Industry Trends

Corporate Client Interests Summarised:

Underwriters Likelihood of collecting first premium

Likelihood of expected premium collections

List Owners Proper data utilisation

Direct Marketing Likelihood of client purchasing product (response ratio)

CDA Proper business sustainability for all

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Meet Lourens Botha - Senior Business Analyst.

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I am Lourens, I am married and have one daughter with another on her way. Other than that, all you really to know is that I'm always right even when I'm wrong and by the way I'm awesome.

(Now that we have got the ego out of the way).

After studying and attaining my BCom Honours degree in Econometrics, I entered the working world, not quite knowing what to do with myself. I started as a financial advisor, or rather a glorified life insurance broker. After almost two years of dismal sales, I did a short stint in accounts for an online retailer and then moved on to an admin position for a medium sized brokerage. Here I stayed for two years, during which I revisited an old love of mine, computer programming. I proceeded to teach myself VBA through examples, implementing time saver techniques for things such as the disclosure documentation of the various brokers. During this time I also started to study towards a BSC degree in computer programming developing skills in SQL, HTML, PHP, C++ and VB .Net.

After two years at the brokerage, I realized that although I still did not know what I wanted to do, it was time for an actual challenge and I applied for the position at CDA as Reports Coordinator. I started in March 2012 and soon realized for the first time, I am doing something that matters to me. I proceeded to automate many of the repetitive tasks that were being performed (I call this donkey work) and this allowed me to not only provide better reports, but also branch out and assist in other areas of the business, which therefore led to me becoming a reports analyst (officially) in 2014.

I have been involved with ODDS from the beginning providing thoughts and running the process to score our leads. Moving forward as the senior reports analyst, I will be in charge of developing a team of report analysts in order to provide more efficient reports which will continue to evolve, this will assist our clients in making more efficient decisions. I will also be developing the ODDS model and any other BI tools to minimize uncertainty and maximize our awesomeness in providing better solutions to our clients. I'm also ranked at number three for the most difficult person to work with, in the company, my biggest goal is to reach number one in 2015.

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