Following the completion of her BA in Journalism, English and Political Science, Tanya headed to London to gain some valuable international corporate experience. Her first role was at Goldman Sachs International in a temporary position, where she was promoted to the role of Financial Analyst within the Corporate Finance division of the investment bank within the year. Tanya holds the accolade of being the first South African woman to hold a client facing position at Goldman Sachs. After four years in the front office, she joined SOFIS International as Vice-President in Integration Advisory.

In 2005 Tanya returned home to South Africa with the vision of helping the South African business climate become a hub of excellence. In 2006, Tanya partnered with a colleague and started a company called Engineer Your Tomorrow. EYT specialises in integrated Talent Management strategy design and development. EYT has worked with a number of accounts in financial services, SME and NGO environments. Tanya is a director at EYT, her primary expertise being stakeholder engagement and analysis of Talent Management processes and improvement of those processes through design, development and implementation.

Rachel is the founder of a company called Every Woman Education & Training Solutions PTY Ltd. She is also the publisher of an online magazine called Women Inc. (The Complete Resource for the Working Women). This magazine (in hard copy) reached a total of 17 000 subscribers and an estimated pass-on readership of conservatively 250 000 South African women. In January, 2006, she launched a company targeted at the male market, called EveryMan ETS (PTY) Ltd.

Rachel has successfully run her own consulting company, consulting on education and training strategies to the banks in Johannesburg for four years. Her consulting clients include but were not limited to SCMB, Barclays Bank, Standard Bank Operations and Standard Bank Commercial.

Prior to this she taught entrepreneurship, life skills and computer literacy at Greenside High School. She in turn has been involved in media planning and direct sales with Verimark Holdings, a direct marketing company. She spent three years as a pastor at His People Christian Church, Johannesburg where she mentored young professionals in life skills, entrepreneurial skills and counselled them as and when the need arose. She has launched five entrepreneurial initiatives, two of which are prosperous businesses today.