Meet the team

Crispin Gell

Phoenix Group | Director

Crispin is a JSE Senior Derivatives dealer and serves as a member of the Derivatives Advisory Committee of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). He is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and a Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) and completed a B.Com (Honours) and M.Com (Tax).

Darren Ashton

Director

• Financial markets professional and trader for 15 years.
• Nedbank CIB – Head Trader, Delta One.
• Nedbank Capital – Senior Proprietary Trader, Multi Disciplinary Trading.
• Nedcor/BoE – Head of Retail Single-Stock Futures.
• Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration – Wits Business School.
• B.SocSci – Rhodes University.
• Registered Person – South African Institute of Financial Markets.
• Key Individual and Representative – South African Financial Services Board.

Tawuya Nhongo

• • Financial markets professional for 11 years
  • Head: Phoenix Markets Advisory
  • Nedbank CIB – Business Facilitation Manager
  • Nedbank Capital – Business Development Manager
  • Namibia Equity Brokers – Quantitative Analyst
  • Nedgroup Securities – Junior Quantitative Analyst
  • CFA Charterholder
  • MSc. Mathematical Statistics – Rhodes University

Matthew Nortier

• • • Financial Markets Broker for over a decade
    • Commodity Broker at HMS Berghau and London Commodity Brokers
    • JSE Equity & Derivatives Dealer at Constant Capital and BEX Financial Services
    • JSE Trader Exam
    • Register Person Exams – South African Institute of Financial Markets
    • B.Com (Management)

Nadine Moses

• 24 Years financial market experience and expertise
• KPMG – Audit Manager: Financial Services and Bank Audit
• Bank of Athens – Internal Auditor: Credit
• Commerzbank AG – Corporate Credit Analyst
• Nedcor Bank – Corporate Credit Analyst
• CA (SA)
• B.Compt (Hons)
• Diploma in Export & Import Practice

Stefania Rocha

• South African Exchange Control Senior Advisor for over 23 years and additional general banking industry experience for over two decades.
• First National Bank – Exchange Control Manager
• First National Bank – Assistant Accountant (Roodepoort and Potchefstroom Branches)
• Barclays Bank Group Zimbabwe & Mozambique – General Banker

Jason Sequeira

• • Over a decades of media and executive management experience
  • Over a decade of small & medium enterprise development and management experience
  • Director of Solutions Media (Pty) Ltd
  • Director of Editors Ink (Pty) Ltd
  • General Manager at Times Media Group (TMG)
  • Publisher for the Sowetan and Sunday World (TMG)
  • Non-executive director Allied Media Publishing Ltd
  • Non-executive director Allied Media Distributors
  • Director Audit Bureau of Circulations SA
  • Non-executive director Sowetan Television (Pty) Ltd
  • BCom Accounting

Naresh Ashok

• Over 20 years of experience in financial markets risk management, operations management and product development.
• B.Com
• MBL
• CertITM (ACT)
• APRM (PRMIA)