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#SLLYMentor Darnell Irozuru, Head of Finance

Success Looks Like...Financial Freedom.
Role: Head of Finance
Company: Elevate Health
Sector: Health and Social Care
What does your role involve?
- Prepare business for upcoming equity
- Raise and provide ongoing commercial and operational support
- Responsible for treasury management, budgeting and forecasts and effective deployment of capital post ICO
- Wrote business Plan for the purposes of supporting the business in opening a bank account in Gibraltar and for inclusion within the investor presentation deck
- Made significant contributions to a white paper
Darnell's Career Journey
I graduated my master's degree, MSc Economics with Distinction in thesis in 2012.
I then joined Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) on their graduate scheme in 2012.
Qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2015.
Moved into Mergers and Acquisitions.
Joined Disney in 2017 as a Finance Analyst.
Joined Coinsilium in 2018 as a Venture Capital Associate.
Joined Elevate Health (a Coinsilium portfolio company) as Head of Finance in August 2018.
Education
What qualifications do you have?
GCSEs
A Levels
Undergraduate degree
Masters degree
Other professional qualifications
Degree subject: Economics at the University of Birmingham
What did you take away from your university experience or education?
Independent Study
Critical Thinking
Planning
The Jump
Tell us about the transition you found most difficult and why?
A-level to university as you had to create your own structure