Victoria has worked in finance for 15 years. Her most recent role was as Portfolio Manager and Trader at Sanarus (Finex) on their ETF range and Global Credit Hedge Fund. Victoria graduated first in her class from the University of Cape Town in South Africa with a B.Sc. (First Class Honors) degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating she spent 2 years as a research assistant to Professor Candy Lang in the Materials Engineering Department of the University of Cape Town studying the mechanical properties and casting of platinum alloys. Concurrently she also worked for Origen Engineering Solutions conducting mechanical failure analysis. In 2005 she went to Cambridge University to study Micro-Mechanics and in 2007 started her first job in finance at Barclays.