MEET THE TEAM
Garth Friedenstein
Director
Having started his career in information technology and data systems, Garth moved into Financial Services Compliance where he has been working for the last few years, specialising in Market Conduct Regulations, the FMA and alternative investment instruments. He is a Director and one of the founders of ARC.
Kate Symington-Vincent
Senior Manager
Kate oversees the team with a commitment to fostering growth through career guidance and development opportunities. She has been mentored by industry leaders for many years and has gained local and global experience in governance, risk, and compliance arenas, with organs of state and private companies, including the development and provision of training at academic, international, and institutional levels, the development of compliance risk assessment and management frameworks, and in undertaking compliance and governance research from a societal, economic, and environmental purview for standard-setting bodies.
A key role over her years in the field has been to stay abreast with, and articulate into, the local and global AML/CFT/CPF conversations concerning governance and compliance best practices, and generally accepted compliance practices.
Paul Hwingwiri
Director and Senior Consultant
With years of experience in the financial services industry, Paul is a driven professional who specialises in enterprise governance, risk, and compliance (eGRC) services for companies in the banking and non-banking financial sectors. As a Director and Senior Consultant at ARC Solutions, he plays a role in finding solutions for setting up and managing Over-The-Counter Derivatives Provider (ODP) licenses, governance managed services, risk and compliance mapping and training, and project risk management for Financial Services Providers (FSPs) in Africa.
Stephan van der Merwe
Senior Consultant
Stephan has been involved in the Information Communications Technology sector for over 10 years. His experience in Network Security, Cyber Security and Network Compliance has seen many companies mitigate cyber threats, exploits and associated attacks that form part of todays connected world.
Stephan wears a white hat and will always try and stop bad actors.
Michail Le Roux
Senior Consultant eGRC Fintech
Michail is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce, a Bachelor of Laws and a Certificate in Tax Law. Michail’s areas of expertise include Corporate and Commercial Law, International Tax Law, financial services and markets regulation, as well as the exchange control regime. He first advised on the application of South African law to Crypto Asset transactions whilst consulting on a US-driven global cryptocurrency project at a multinational professional services firm in 2018. He has since advised Cryptocurrency exchanges, arbitrage trading services providers, individual traders and most recently, decentralised applications (dApps). As a professional, he passionately supports Crypto Assets as the “future of money”. Outside of working hours, he loves boxing, horology and industrial design.
Devin Shutte
Senior Consultant Risk and Compliance, Financial Services
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours).
For the past 17 years, Devin has been involved in the global financial markets. His experience includes heading up a derivatives trading desk through the financial crisis, managing his own stockbrokerage, lecturing investments and finance at MBA level, and currently institutional fund management.
Devin is a Fellow for the Institute of Financial Markets, a regular market commentator and an unapologetic optimist.
Dominque Smith
Consultant eGRC Financial Services
Dom has occupied senior management positions in the private sector. She has specialised experience in business optimisation, client management. and procedure & process development. She holds a BCOM, Honours in Business Management and has recently completed her MBA. She has recently focused on general eGRC consulting in the Financial Services Sector.
Inga Sigabi
eGRC consultant
Inga graduated from WITS with a LLB. He has experience in various legal fields, such as conveyancing, corporate and commercial as well as construction and infrastructure. His experience ranges from attending to conveyancing matters, company registration working with NCA, FICA & FACTA. He is hungry to expand his knowledge-base and develop a deeper technical understanding of eGRC.
Victoria Zimba
eGRC Analyst
Victoria graduated summa cum laude LLB from Wits and has worked in compliance in the financial services sector and education. She has a passion for deep technical learnings and an even greater passion for teaching and developing others. Her role within ARC is to develop client training tools and materials of the highest standards and to provide support to the consultants where required.
Tony Graham
Digital Client Services
Tony has had over 15 years’ experience in Marketing and Sales from sectors ranging from Media to Financial Services. He enjoys working with people immensely. Despite working for an eGRC firm, Tony is a procedural-minimalist and believes that, whilst rules have their place – ultimately people need to demonstrate social responsibility in order to avoid unnecessary regulation and governmental control. His role within the firm is to ensure that clients’ needs and services rendered align perfectly.