I am currently a Non-Executive Director of a South African bank, where I chair the Audit Committee and am a member of a number of other Board committees  I  also a mentor early stage Fintech start-ups.

I have worked in many areas of retail banking, most recently on a transformation project to transition a bank into a platform-enabled business.  Before this I was the Head of Retail, International, responsible for consumer and private banking in bank's international subsidiaries. 

Other roles in banking include being Chief Financial Officer of the retail bank division; heading up Savings and Investments products; and mass affluent banking.  I also spent four and a half years as General Manager: Banking for an insurance company where I had responsibility for developing the entry options and value propositions to start a bank.

Although my career has been largely focused in banking, I started off as a microbiologist and developed a way of refining gold using bacteria.  I then spent a period in mining finance.

I am  recognized as an innovative strategic thinker with Harvard University developing an MBA case study on one of his innovations, the Million a Month Account.

I have the following qualifications:

Bachelor of Science (Honours) - University of the Witwatersrand

Bachelor of Accounting - University of the Witwatersrand

Chartered Accountant (South Africa) - SAICA

MDP - Unisa Business School

Postgraduate Diploma Financial Planning - Freestate University

Postgraduate Diploma Strategy and Innovation - Oxford