Alpha Code
MD
Dominique Collett
Dominique Collett is a Senior Investment Executive at Rand Merchant Insurance
Holdings and is the driving force behind AlphaCode, a club for next generation
financial services entrepreneurs. AlphaCode provides mentorship, financial
services expertise, corporate connections and growth capital with the purpose
of optimizing and scaling disruptive financial services businesses.
Day 1
Workshop 1
14:30-14:55
FinTech: The
entrepreneur;
the investor
Dominique has an entrepreneurial background and was one of the founding
members of TYME, a South African based technology company that designs,
builds and operates digital banking ecosystems. Tyme was launched out of the
Deloitte Innovation Incubator and established as a stand-alone business in June
2012. Tyme was sold to Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in early 2015.
The TYME solution enables super-low cost banking services that are accessible
financially, physically and emotionally. The solution employs best practice
design principles, architecture and technology. The first installation of this
hosted solution is Mobile Money, which was launched by MTN in South Africa in
November 2012 in partnership with the South African Bank of Athens, as well as
Pick n Pay. Within 9 months of launch, Mobile Money had 1 million users on its
platform and had processed over R1bn in transactions, making it one of the top
10 Mobile Money deployments globally.
Prior to this, Dominique’s career spanned both banking and management
consulting. She worked for McKinsey & Company where she focused on financial
services and public healthcare and was part of the corporate development and
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