Dylan Pooley is an innovative business consultant, coach, entrepreneur, investor and mentor for SMEs across a broad range of sectors in the UK and South Africa.
Through Inn8Innovation, he provides creative, structured finance solutions for small to medium sized enterprises. With a holistic approach, he is focused on business creation and driving personal growth results. Highly acclaimed for his provision of guidance and encouragement to enhance clarity, sharpen focus and propose a variety of strategies, Dylan succeeds in developing and building on his clients’ human vitality. He fosters individual creativity and instils a strong natural instinct, based on reason and reflex.
At Geddes Capital, Dylan is responsible for raising fast international capital to structure creative finance solutions for credible SMEs, from an extensive range of sectors throughout South Africa. He is also Founder of Geddes Capital Commodities, which is an independent commodity trade finance company which takes advantage of the ‘trade finance gap’, impacting SMEs suffering from global banking inefficiencies.
Dylan is an investor, director and sits on the Boards of numerous businesses. With over 25 years’ global experience in investment banking, he is able to offer his highly developed personal skills and knowledge to clients, to help facilitate corporate and personal development.
Previously, Dylan spent more than twenty years in Equity trading for ICBC, Citigroup, HSBC and Martin & Co. in Johannesburg and London.
Dylan Pooley’s Background
Entrepreneur, Investor & Business Mentor
Cape Town, ZA
Geddes Capital Commodities
Partner
Apr 2019 - Present
Cape Town, ZA
GCC is an independent commodity trade finance company which partners with producers & traders to optimize their workflow process in exporting to the rest of the world. GCC acts as both a funding partner & supply chain advisor to shorten delivery cycles, improve product quality, security & facilitate scalability of the client's supply chain.
Based in UK and South Africa, Dylan is a consultant, coach and mentor applying innovative and holistic strategies to accelerate skills and enable rapid transformation to business, executives, entrepreneurs and people in Africa.
Based in UK and South Africa, Geddes Capital works with SMEs to structure creative finance solutions for credible businesses very quickly. Geddes Capital focusses on Early Stage Private Equity, Trade Finance, Bridge Financing, Capital Raising, Structuring & Advisory services.
*Built fully fledged Global Equity business
*Entailed building solid framework to ever changing regulatory environment
*Managed a distribution business across our legal entities
*Set up management committees and chaired them
*Responsible for overall management of risk across Equities and Derivatives .
*Following merger , was instrumental in re-shaping our business across legal entities to accomm
Dylan was responsible for running both Natural Resource and CEEMEA trading teams globally. Citi is the leading global bank. Citi strives to create the best outcomes for our clients & customers with financial solutions that are simple, creative and responsible.
*International sales trader/trader
*Management of both facilitation and proprietary risk
Martin & Co
Head of Equity Trading
Jan 1993 - Dec 1999
Junior trader for Equities on open outcry *Managed transition over to electronic platform *Last position held was Head of Equity trading and international sales trader team.
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