In this section: Sumaya Adam, Phumla Ramphele, Eureka Redelinghuys and more…
Phumla Ramphele
Managing Executive: Risk
Nedbank Retail
Tel: +27 11 295 5413
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Phumla Ramphele joined Nedbank as managing executive, retail risk, on October 1 2006. Previously she was responsible for credit at the Land Bank, and prior to that worked as a general manager in Absa Corporate. Ramphele has also worked at Nedbank in both the retail and corporate credit areas between 1995 and 2003, and before that was at Standard Bank in the retail and commercial areas for 14 years. She is currently a member of the Land Bank board of directors. Ramphele holds numerous Institute of Bankers diplomas, a BCom (Accounting) degree from Unisa and a diploma in Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School.
Eureka Redelinghuys
Chief Financial Officer
Nedbank Capital
Tel: + 27 11 294 3117
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Eureka Redelinghuys joined Nedbank Capital in 2005 as chief financial officer after spending more than 17 years at Investec, moving from treasury accounting to capital markets to forex and finally heading the investment banking finance operations there. Her first job was at Sappi, where she worked for three and a half years. Redelinghuys holds a BCom(Hons) from the University of Johannesburg and completed her articles at Wackrill Poole, which has since been incorporated into one of the large auditing firms.
Kandis Swanepoel
Divisional Executive: Strategic Business Unit
Nedbank Business Banking
Tel: +27 11 295 9037
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Kandis Swanepoel is a qualified chartered accountant and moved to the Nedbank Group 13 years ago after serving as an audit manager at Deloitte. She completed her MBA cum laude in 2001 and is currently the divisional executive of the Strategic Business Unit in Nedbank Business Banking, focusing on driving the specialist sales teams to support the strategy of being the bank for the entrepreneur.
Bedelia Theunissen
Head: Human Resources
Nedbank Capital
Tel: + 27 11 294 0015
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
As head of Nedbank capital’s human resources division Bedelia Theunissen enables Nedbank capital to leverage its intellectual capital through the attraction, retention and development of talent. She is also responsible for the transformation portfolio within Nedbank capital. Before joining Nedbank capital she was responsible for the alignment of strategic human resources initiatives at Nedbank retail. Prior to that Theunissen was at Absa in various roles before heading the centre of excellence division in Stanbic Africa. There her major areas of responsibilities included organisational development, learning and development as well as talent management. Theunissen started her career at the University of Johannesburg as an administrator and later as a junior lecturer. She believes that self-development is the key to success and holds a BA (social sciences), honours in psychology and an MA in industrial psychology, and is currently completing a PhD in leadership. Her favourite quote is “be the change you want to see”
Shiphra Tiya
National Manager: Public Sector
Nedbank Business Banking
Tel: +27 11 295 9048
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Shiphra Tiya joined Nedbank in 2006 as a senior project manager under shared services corporate banking, where her responsibilities involved managing all non-IT projects within business banking. Her current role involves the execution and implementation of overall strategy and objectives for the public dector unit through business banking’s 13 regions. She successfully implemented the public sector segmentation strategy in business banking. Tiya holds a BCom (economics) and an MBA, and has completed management development, project management and strategic leadership programmes. She is also an active member of the Institute of Directors South Africa among other professional memberships.
Sumaya Adam
Head: Business Banking Southern Peninsula Region
Nedbank Business Banking
Tel: +27 21 412 3061
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Sumaya Adam is the head of business banking Southern Peninsula. Equipped with intimate knowledge of the banking industry, she provides transformational leadership to the region and is accountable for developing and implementing a regional strategy aligned to meeting the overall objectives of Nedbank business banking. A key component of business banking’s success is the ability to draw on various specialist services across the banking group and to provide structuring and advisory lending opportunities, deposit-taking and wholesale funding, treasury trading and transactional banking services to its clients. With a proven track record in relationship management, product innovation and sales management Adam is the ideal candidate to make things happen for the business banking clients of the Southern Peninsula.
Anél Bosman
Head: Risk
Nedbank Capital
Tel +27 11 294 0490
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 multidisciplinary 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 the risk division into a centre of excellence, she’s known for her individual dress sense — a not-so-silent rebellion against the black suit.
Jenny Goddard
Head: Nedbank Business Banking, KwaZulu-Natal Inland Region
Nedbank Business Banking
Tel: +27 33 897 7100
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
A dynamic and vastly experienced banker, Jenny Goddard has been based in Pietermaritzburg for the past four years, moving there from Durban to take up a position as the regional business head of Nedbank business banking, KwaZulu-Natal inland region. 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 chose 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 to her current role. The KwaZulu-Natal Inland Region covers all of KwaZulu-Natal from Pongola in the north to Port Shepstone in the south, excluding Durban. The regional office is based in Pietermaritzburg — the provincial capital of KwaZulu-Natal and an important business hub — with offices in Newcastle, Port Shepstone, Pongola and Richards Bay. Goddard is responsible for managing the end-to-end performance of the business, and for driving growth within the region.
Thando Lukhele
Governance and Compliance Executive
Nedbank Group Technology
Tel +27 11 500 3932
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
As divisional executive 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 current economic climate. Her portfolio includes heading legal contracting services for group technology. Lukhele has a wealth of experience across a broad range of compliance issues and is a member of the Compliance Institute of South Africa. She holds a BJuris degree (University of the Western Cape); an LLB (University of the Witwatersrand); an Advanced Diploma in Banking and a Certificate in Compliance Management (University of Johannesburg). She has also completed the Women Leading Business, Innovations and Success Programme (Harvard Business School) and Nexus Ilima Programme (Gordon Institute of Business Science).
Patricia Maqetuka
Wholesale Banking Technology Executive
Nedbank Group Technology
Tel: +27 11 500 7003
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Patricia Maqetuka was appointed wholesale banking technology executive for group technology with effect from January 1 2009. In this role she is responsible for corporate banking, business banking and capital banking. Prior to this appointment Maqetuka held the position of divisional director of group information business solutions for Nedbank group technology. In her 15 years with the group, 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 African National Congress in Lusaka, Zambia, as a computer specialist. In 2008 Maqetuka received a Nedbank CEO Top Achiever Award for the 2007 calendar year. She 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 executive course at Harvard Business School.
Shamelle Maharaj
Head: Human Resources
Nedbank Group Risk
Tel: +27 11 294 0297
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
After completing her degree and postgraduate business qualification (a PDM in human resources) from the University of the Witwatersrand, Shamelle Maharaj started her human resources career in the retail industry with the Edgars group. She left Edgars to join Nedbank and has been with the group for 12 years. From humble beginnings she has built a career in Nedbank starting as a junior HR officer to her current post. Maharaj’s key success factors can be attributed to maintaining a clear understanding and developing a thorough knowledge of the responsibility and role of human resources in the South African and global context, maintaining high levels of awareness of international HR best practice and building strategic networks and business relationships.
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 Nedbank affordable housing development. The existence of this unit is a milestone achievement for Mbongwe, who has had a passion for housing the disadvantaged communities, dating back to the late eighties. 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, 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 currently 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 the Harvard Business School.
Maggie Mojapelo
Human Resources Executive
Nedbank Group Technology
Tel: +27 11 500 5018
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Maggie Mojapelo was appointed divisional director of group technology, human resources and communications, on August 1 2007. For Mojapelo the appointment signifies the continuation of a career in human resources that has spanned 15 years as well as in the publishing industry and at IBM and Avon Justine. Passionate about developing people from an early age, Mojapelo completed an honours degree in BA Education at the University of the North and spent seven years teaching before taking the next step in her career path to embrace the human resources field. Mojapelo has a keen understanding of international human resources trends and is implementing this vision in the Nedbank context.
Sheralee Morland
General Manager: Enterprisewide Risk Management
Nedbank Group Risk
Tel: +27 11 294 3571
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Sheralee Morland ranks as her most challenging career opportunity her involvement with the Anglo American group of companies internationally following its London Stock Exchange listing in 1999, when the Turnbull guidance (risk management) was implemented throughout this large group. Over the years she has held various posts in risk management and external and internal auditing. Internal auditing in Standard Bank and later at Old Mutual provided an opportunity to gain an insight into most aspects of a bank and a large financial institution. Pioneering work saw the introduction of risk-based audit methodologies for the branch inspectorate, credit review and general audit functions. Also noteworthy is the implementation of control and risk self-assessment and first-time reviews of corporate governance, risk management and black economic empowerment. During her career Morland has been widely consulted for best practice by other organisations. Her current role provides opportunities to engage with staff and management at all levels as she and her team endeavour to meet Nedbank’s aspiration of being worldclass at managing risk and thereby “making it happen and loving it!”.
Priya Naidoo
Executive Head: Finance
Nedbank Corporate
Tel: +27 11 294 3169
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Priya Naidoo began her working career at Standard Bank Insurance Brokers while completing her BCom (Accounting) degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. She joined PricewaterhouseCoopers for commencement with her articles and went on to complete her postgraduate diploma in accountancy through the University of Natal, Durban, and sat for her board exam. On completion of her traineeship she joined Nedbank in the corporate banking division where she was responsible for margin management and asset pricing, and gained much experience in the ALCO and treasury operations. In December 2005 she took on the role of head of finance for the division. Her enthusiasm for financial services as well as Nedbank continued and she stepped into her current position in Nedbank Corporate from October 2007. She attributes much of her success in the organisation to having had great mentors who have been visionary leaders and who have kept her challenged. Out of the office her main interests include travelling when she can and spending time with family and friends.
Anny Pachyannis-Alman
General Manager: Group Market Risk Monitoring
Nedbank Group Risk
Tel: +27 11 295 8858
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
As general manager of group market risk monitoring in Nedbank group risk, Anny Pachyannis-Alman is responsible for developing and implementing Nedbank’s market risk framework to enable risk management across asset and liability management, trading and investment risks. This includes the independent oversight of market risk and encompasses implementing the 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 and change management. Before joining Nedbank in 1996 Pachyannis-Alman headed Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank’s asset and liability management unit and previously had also held many senior management positions in financial quantitative engineering, quantitative management and decision support services within Standard Bank Investment Corporation. An MBA from the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town and a BSc (Hons) from Unisa and the University of the Witwatersrand are among her qualifications and she has also completed the advanced management programme of the Insead Graduate School of Business and the financial investment technology programme of the University of California.
Leela Ramdhani
Human Resources Executive: Strategic Learning and Growth
Nedbank Group
Tel: +27 11 295 5653
www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Leela Ramdhani has been in her current position since July 2007. Her previous position was that of human resources executive, strategy and organisational development, in which her responsibilities embodied the design of human resources strategy and her tasks included ensuring alignment to the Nedbank Group’s strategic objectives. Accompanying this was the overall ownership of organisational development, including design, policies and procedures. Her 10-year tenure with Nedbank began as an accountant in the technology area, where she was responsible for the financial management of technology projects. She realised a passion for people-related challenges and making a difference by moving to the human resources function in 2004. She holds a BCom (accounting and business economics) and an MBA, both from the University of Pretoria.