It all started with some peanut butter cookies. A couple of years ago, with nothing else planned one Saturday morning, my husband Julian suggested we make some peanut butter cookies and visit Leah our cleaning lady at her shack in Mamelodi. With a 2-year-old helping make the cookies, we set off into the unknown. Leah […]
Ena Hewitt
Born in Umtata, Ena completed high school in New Delhi before studying actuarial science at UCT. She has travelled to over 40 countries and has lived for extended periods in New Zealand, India, China, Germany and England.
Ena spent six years in the financial markets in South Africa as a fixed income and foreign exchange trader with JP Morgan. She was the first South African to complete her MBA at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai -- currently rated as the top business school in Asia. This included a semester at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania before spending a year with HSBC from 2008 to 2009 as the head of asset and liability management for mainland China.
As a mother of two daughters, Ena is currently out of the industry. She has been involved in initiating a small-scale organic farming initiative in Pretoria and works as an estate agent.