Debra has 22 years’ experience in financial services. She spent two years in the Treasury Division of Standard Bank (Corporate and Commercial division) attending to the International Swaps and Derivatives Master agreements (“ISDA”) for Corporate clients.
In 2001 she was appointed as Legal Advisor to the Association of Unit Trusts (AUT) (now known as the Association of Collective Investments). In 2006, she set up a Unit Trust Company for a large financial services player and managed this for the following 10 years.
Thereafter Debra consulted as an Independent Legal and Compliance Officer to various Financial Services Providers such as asset managers, CIS Managers and Independent Financial Advisors.
Debra has a B.Juris, LLB (UPE/now Nelson Mandela Uni) and MBA (USQ Australia), RE 1, RE 3 and RE 4.