Hazel is a qualified Chartered Accountant (South Africa) and Registered Auditor with over 17 years of experience providing audit and advisory services to clients in South Africa, Australia and the USA in a variety of industries.

She is the Managing Director and founder of Primorial, a provider of broad-spectrum business services, in accounting, tax and information technology to small and medium businesses throughout Africa.

Previously, a partner in a Big 4 firm, she provided external audit services to large entities in Financial Services (including Treasury, Private Equity and Hedge Funds), ICT & Telecommunications, Manufacturing & Distribution and Not-for-Profit industries.

Hazel is a respected mentor for the support and development of women in the workplace to achieve their full, and desired potential and is currently a mentor to a Senegalese statistician, living and working in Paris.

Hazel started Primorial because she is passionate about small businesses and the large impact that successful small business development can have on the economies of South Africa and the African continent at large.