Staff

Directors

Executive Chairman, Sean Maloney

Maloney is the Henry Wells of Southern Africa. In just under 13 years, he has owned a grand total of 61 forex shops. Maloney began his education in Zimbabwe before moving on to the University of Cape Town for his tertiary studies. He began his career with Unisys in Johannesburg in 1986.  In 1995 he opened his first bureau de change at the Victoria Falls, starting a chain that would grow to 32 branches, the biggest in that country, before the Zimbabwean government shut down the bureau de change industry in 2002. In 2001, Maloney turned his attention to his South African operations in earnest. Since then FX Africa has grown to be the third biggest forex supplier in the country. Maloney is currently the executive director of the company and envisages an even better future for FX Africa. “We are going to constantly raise our own performance bar,” says Maloney. “We are going to shoot for the moon. We may fall a bit short, but we’ll get much further than if we just stay within our comfort zone.”

Managing Director, Darren Jenkins-Ferrett

Darren joined FX Africa Foreign Exchange in June 2005 as Managing Director. Before moving to FX Africa, Darren spent six years with Tourvest’s American Express Foreign Exchange franchise, five of which he was a director. During Darren’s term with American Express he was responsible for retail branch network expansion, new sales, product development, advertising and marketing. From his time at American Express Foreign Exchange, Darren has a great deal of experience, both of the environment of a global brand franchise and the demands of running a retail foreign exchange outlet at a busy airport location.

Darren is a graduate in Computing and Information Systems from London Guildhall University. Prior to being employed by American Express he worked for three years for SAB Miller as part of the SAB Group financial management team at the SAB Miller head office in Braamfontein. Before Darren’s immigration to South Africa in 1996 he held various financial management positions in the advertising industry in London. Darren is currently studying for his MBA through Edinburgh Business School.

Financial Director, Michael Harris

One of FX Africa's newest stars, Harris joined FX Africa in April 2008. As his title suggests, Harris manages the accounting and reporting aspects of FX Africa. He previously worked as Financial Director at Tower Foreign Exchange and as treasury manager at American Express, during his 14 years in the forex industry. "I joined FX Africa because it's a growing and exciting company," says Harris. "There's an entrepreneurial spirit here that you don't find elsewhere." Harris has a B.Comm in Investment and Business Management from the University of South Africa.

Johannesburg Management Team

National Risk Manager, Megan van den Bergh

Megan started with FX Africa on the 1st of February 2009 as National Risk Manager. She matriculated in Durban in 1989 and joined the South African Police Service where she was a Detective in the Commercial Crime Unit in Pretoria specializing in fraud and corruption until 2000. In this period, she studied part time through Technikon SA and graduated with a National Diploma in Travel and Tourism in December 1999. She took a year break from investigating dockets and was a Cabin Crew Attendant on the fixed wing aircrafts within the SAPS, where she travelled throughout Africa

In January 2001 she was chosen to be part of the newly formed Directorate of Special Operantions (namely the Scorpions). She specialized in criminal matters involving bank and Government fraud and corruption. Two of her sucess stories were the collapse of Regal Bank and internal corruption within the IEC, Mpumalanga, both resulting in guilty sentences being passed. Megan worked in Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal and the Free State Regions her 5.5 years at the Scorpions. In June 2006 she decided to enter the Corporate world and was appointed as National Risk Manager at Flight Centre Pty Ltd. In February 2009 she joined the amazing team at FX Africa and has never looked back.

Human Resources Manager, Debbie Juul

Juul fulfills an advisory role to the management team in relation to human resources. She spent a year with international conglomerate, Deloitte and Touche, as a senior specialist before moving to FX Africa. Juul hopes to set up policies and procedures this year that will provide guidance for management and staff and ensure the continuation of a smooth running human resources department.

Western Cape Management Team

Regional Manager, Lee Savage

Lee Savage, FX Africa’s regional manager for the Western Cape, oversees the 10 branches in this province. Her responsibilities include hunting for potential new branch locations, monitoring existing branches in terms of audits, expanding sales and ensuring targets are reached, making sure service levels are kept to a high standard and keeping an eye on general staff issues. One of FX Africa’s longest-standing staff members, Savage joined the company in March 2001 as a sales executive. She was promoted to sales manager in 2003 and then promoted to regional manager in 2007. Before coming to FX Africa, she worked for Rentokil Initial in sales for five years. “I believe at FX Africa our clients enjoy the FX ‘Experience’ as we always strive for service excellence,” says Savage. “Thanks to this, we’ve been able to expand our client base through referrals and repeat business.”

KwaZulu-Natal Management Team

Regional Manager, Annette Harburn

Annette joined the company in April 2007 after a five-year break from foreign exchange, during which she ran her own art supply shop. She is a past regional manager of American Express KZN and has 20 years’ experience in the forex industry, six of these in management. “ My region has rapidly grown from 3 branches to 13, with two in the pipeline. Once forex is in your blood, it’s hard to get it out,” she laughs. “I would like to use my knowledge and experience to ensure that KZN and E. Cape remain a strong, operationally sound region,” she says.