Sumaya Adam
Head: Business Banking Southern Peninsula region
Nedbank Corporate
Tel: +27 21 412 3061
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Sumaya Adams is Nedbank head of business banking for the southern Peninsula. She leads the bank’s regional strategy for a growing area. Business banking is a division of Nedbank Corporate and provides a range of financial and advisory services to businesses with a turnover of up to R400-million. As head of business banking, she helps devise banking strategies for a range of clients. She is married, has two children and loves gardening and playing golf. With her husband, she is opening a guest house that he will run. Adams enjoys reading thrillers and legal dramas.
Anel Bosman
Head: Risk
Nedbank Capital
Tel +27 11 535 4037
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Anél Bosman heads Nedbank Capital’s Risk division, with responsibility for ensuring that the business is underpinned by an integrated risk framework. She oversees operational, credit and market risk, as well as the Basel Initiative for Nedbank Capital. Bosman was awarded a Nedbank/Old Mutual scholarship in 1989 and completed her MPhil at Cambridge. She began her career as a desk economist at The Discount House of South Africa, where she was attracted to the buzz of trading and migrated to the market-trading environment.
She spent seven years with the Investec Group as a derivatives trader, thereafter joining BoE Securities as a consultant to establish a multi-disciplinary trading desk, which she continued to run following the merger with Nedbank in 2001. Bosman entered the world of Risk in April 2005 with her appointment as Head of Risk for Nedbank Capital. While building Risk into a centre of excellence, she’s known for her individual dress sense — a not-so-silent rebellion against the black suit.
Kirsty Davis
Chief Operating Officer: Investment Banking
Nedbank Capital
Tel: +27 11 294 9027
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Kirsty Davis is chief operating officer of the Investment Banking division of Nedbank Capital. She has worked for Nedbank for seven years. Prior to her current role, she spent four years in the bank working as professional assistant to the chief executive where she obtained exposure to a broad base of initiatives across the group, including designing, implementing and steering an initiative to build cultural capital for Nedbank.
Davis joined Nedbank in 2001 as a senior manager in Investment banking division where she was involved in structured finance and credit derivative transactions on a daily basis. After graduating from the University of Natal in 1996 with a BCom and a Postgraduate Qualification in Financial Accounting. She served her articles with Deloitte in Durban and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1999. Once qualified, Davis remained with Deloitte working in Luxembourg and the Isle of Man as an audit manager in the financial services sector until 2001.
Jenny Goddard
Head: Nedbank Business Banking KZN Inland region
Nedbank Corporate
Tel: +27 33 897 7100
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Jenny Goddard is the head of Nedbank Business Banking KZN Inland region. A dynamic and vastly experienced banker, she has been based in Pietermaritzburg for the past four years, moving there from Durban to take up the position as the regional business head. Having originally anticipated a career in law, Goddard had a change of heart and joined the Standard Bank group in 1977.
Specialising in asset-based finance, she joined Nedbank in 1992 and, in 1997, she was transferred to Johannesburg as Nedbank Business Banking’s head of asset-based finance. She later made a choice to expand her career opportunities by gaining exposure to the wider commercial banking industry and moved back to Durban to take up a position as a Portfolio Relationship Manager and later as Area Sales Manager, before being appointed into her current role.
Ingrid Hindle
Divisional Director: Shared Services
Nedbank Retail
Tel: +27 11 295 9077
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Ingrid Hindle has been with Nedbank for 16 years. She holds the position of divisional director for shared services for Nedbank Retail. She completed her articles at BDO Spencer Steward and moved directly to Nedbank. After six years in asset based finance, she moved to the information technology division to do special projects. This was followed by a period in mainstream finance before she moved into Nedbank Retail.
Thando Lukhele
Governance and Compliance Executive
Nedbank Group Technology
Tel: +27 11 500 3932
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
As divisional director of IT Governance and Compliance for Group Technology, Thando Lukhele is accountable for all compliance-related matters for the cluster — a strategically vital role in the present economic climate. Lukhele has a wealth of experience across a broad range of compliance issues and is a member of the Compliance Institute of South Africa as well as the Institute of Bankers of South Africa.
Lukhele holds a BJuris degree (UWC), LLB (Wits), Advanced Diploma in Banking (RAU) and a Certificate in Compliance Management (RAU). She has also completed the Women Leading Business, Innovations and Success Programme (Harvard Business School) and Nexus Ilima Programme (GIBS).
Shamelle Maharaj
Head: Group Risk HR
Nedbank Group
Tel: +27 11 294 0297
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Nedbank’s head of human resources for the Group Risk division, Shamelle Maharaj, has worked her way up the corporate ladder from her starting position as a junior HR officer. She has been with the bank for 11 years and previously worked at Edcon. Maharaj enjoys running, yoga and gardening. She is married and is the mother of two sons.
Patricia Maqetuka
Group Infrastructure Business Solutions Executive
Nedbank Group Technology
Tel: +27 11 295 6361
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Patricia Maqetuka holds the position of divisional director of Group Information Business Solutions for Nedbank Group Technology. In her 14 years with the bank, Maqetuka has grown from an analyst to a team leader, business unit leader and programme executive. She is a Trustee of the Nedbank Black Management Eyethu Scheme and also serves as a member of the Group Technology Employment Equity Forum.
Before joining Nedbank, Maqetuka worked for a computer company as a senior technician and network manager, and for the ANC in Lusaka, Zambia, as a computer specialist. Maqetuka holds an MSc degree in Technical Cybernetics and Automation from the University of Dresden, Germany, and has completed a number of leadership certificates in Israel as well as a woman’s executive leadership course at Harvard Business School.
Lindiwe Mbongwe
Divisional General Manager: Affordable Housing Development
Nedbank Corporate Property Finance
Tel: + 27 11 294 0261
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Lindiwe Mbongwe is divisional general manager of the Nedbank Affordable Housing Development Division. The existence of this unit is a milestone achievement for Mbongwe, who has always had a passion for housing the disadvantaged communities. The unit offers development finance, the goal being to create a supply of affordable housing units for clients whose household income is between R2 600 and R9 600 a month.
Prior to this, Mbongwe held the position of divisional director for Product Innovation in Nedbank’s Home Loan Division. She was also head of retail banking at Peoples Bank prior to the integration of Peoples Bank into the Nedbank Group and has held various senior positions in other companies including Eskom, African Bank and Dimension Data. She is a non-executive director on the board of National Brands Limited. Mbongwe holds a BCom Accounting degree and a number of management qualifications from institutions such as Wits Business School, INSEAD (France) and Harvard Business School.
Maggie Mojapelo
Human Resources and Communications Executive
Nedbank Group Technology
Tel: +27 11 500 5018
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Maggie Mojapelo was appointed divisional director of Group Technology HR and Communications in August 2007. For Mojapelo, the appointment signifies the continuation of a career in human resources which has spanned 15 years and includes time spent in the publishing industry, IBM and Avon Justine. Passionate about developing people from an early age, Mojapelo completed a BA Education (honours) degree at the University of the North and spent seven years teaching before taking the next step in her career path to embrace HR. Mojapelo has a keen understanding of international human resources trends and is implementing this vision for Nedbank.
Sheralee Morland
General Manager: Enterprise-wide Risk Management
Nedbank Group Risk
Tel: +27 11 294 3571
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Sheralee Morland has made a specialisation of control and risk self- assessment, so much so that she is regularly asked to consult on the area. Through her years in banking, Sheralee has held various posts in risk management, external and internal auditing. She has worked at Standard Bank as well as Old Mutual. She has instituted pioneering, risk-based audit methodologies for various operations.
Morland is the single parent of twin daughters and a third daughter — the three are “her inspiration and challenge [who] make life incredibly worthwhile”. Travel is a passion as is interior design and architecture. She enjoys curling up with a good book or two and loves nurturing friendships and family over cups of cappuccinos or ice cold white wine.
Ronél Nienaber
Head: People Practices
Nedbank Group Human Resources
Tel: +27 11 295 8389
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Ronél Nienaber’s portfolio includes the design of policies and processes supporting the Reward, Talent and Performance Management, Recognition, Employer Branding and Recruitment initiatives within Nedbank. She has been with Nedbank for the past 13 years and held a number of different portfolios over this period.
She started her career with First National Bank whereafter she specialised in Industrial Relations for four years and then joined Nedbank in 1995. Nienaber holds a MComm Human Resources Management (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria, is a registered Industrial Psychologist (HPCSA) and a Global Reward Practitioner through WorldatWork (US). She has been on the Executive Committee of the South African Reward Association (Sara) for the past eight years and was president of Sara for the period 2004 to 2006.
Anny Pachyannis-Alman
General Manager: Group Market Risk Monitoring
Nedbank Group Risk
Tel: +27 11 295 8858
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Anny Pachyannis-Alman is the general manager Group Market Risk Monitoring in Nedbank’s risk cluster. She is responsible for developing and implementing Nedbank’s market risk framework to enable risk management across ALM, trading and investment risks. This includes the independent oversight of market risk and encompasses implementing group market risk policy and framework, monitoring and reporting market risk across the group and independently validating market risk models.
Her experience and responsibilities have varied across market, trading, credit, operational, compliance, risk technology, enterprise risk management and change management. Before joining Nedbank in 1996, PachyannisAlman was the head of Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank’s Asset Liability Management Unit and has held many senior management roles in financial quantitative engineering, quantitative management and decision support services within Standard Bank Investment Corporation.
Phumla Ramphele
Divisional Director: Risk
Nedbank Retail
Tel: +27 11 295 5413
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Phumla Ramphele joined Nedbank as Divisional Director: Retail Risk in October 2006. Previously she was responsible for Credit at Land Bank, and prior to that worked as a general manager in Absa Corporate. Phumla has also worked at Nedbank in both the Retail and Corporate Credit areas between 1995 and 2003 and before that was at Standard Bank Retail and Commercial for 14 years. She is serving as a member of the Board for Land Bank. Ramphele holds numerous Institute of Bankers qualifications as well as BComm Accounting from Unisa.
Eureka Redelinghuys
Chief Financial Officer
Nedbank Capital
Tel: + 27 11 294 3117
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Eureka Redelinghuys joined Nedbank Capital as its chief financial officer in 2005. Previously, she worked at Investec for 17 years, moving from Treasury accounting, to capital markets and forex. She quit Investec while serving as head of investment banking finance operations. Redelinghuys holds a BCom (Hons) from the University of Johannesburg. She loves reading, pilates, walking and is passionate about rugby. So much so that she’s followed the Springboks around the world.
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