Mokaedi has more than twenty-five years’ experience in strategy, marketing and distribution across the financial services and FMCG industries.  As Chief Marketing Officer at Santam, he is encouraged by the innovative responses of South Africans  to the challenge of addressing issues of safety as part of this campaign.  This is an exciting opportunity for Santam to help turn some of these innovative ideas into reality and make our country more safe.

Santam’s Executive Head Group Sourcing and Enterprise development, Ebrahim,  is an entrepreneur at heart and following stints in small business and industrial development companies, he worked and studied internationally as part of various leadership development programmes. After a long and very successful stint in the Oil Industry, he joined Santam. He thinks this campaign will give Santam an opportunity to develop partnerships that will improve customer service and help with sustainability

As the Director of Innovation and Technology at the Department of Trade and Industry, Nontombi’s responsibilities include developing policies and strategies as well as introducing incentives for technology development. She previously worked at the Department of Science and Technology as a Deputy Director of Emerging Research Areas. At the DST she drove programmes for policy stakeholder management.

Having worked in the financial services industry for 22 years in various executive roles, John Khawulezile Lomberg, Head of Stakeholder Relations and CSI Santam, plays a key role in ensuring that Santam is a responsible corporate citizen. He believes that through this campaign, safety conscious behaviour and safe environments to live, work and play can be realised.

As Head of Transformation for the Santam Group, Ray-ann Sedres believes change requires out-of-the box thinking and innovation as a way to address traditional challenges facing business and society. Ray-ann supports the organisation in driving key transformation initiatives that create shared value for both business and society. She believes that this initiative gives Santam the opportunity to determine solutions that are relevant to changing society, allowing it to be safer and encouraging inclusive growth.

Philip is the CEO of the Nedbank Stellenbosch University LaunchLab, a Stellenbosch University (SU) based business incubator, started by SU’s industry interaction and innovation company, Innovus. The LaunchLab is not only active on the SU campus but on a number of other university campuses in South Africa as well.

Johan joined Santam in May 2012 as the head of Solution Delivery. Johan is responsible for the delivery, maintenance and support of all IT solutions for the various business divisions within Santam. Johan has over 20 years of IT experience in the public and private sectors. In his development career, he’s been involved in building systems and applications related to administration, biometric verification, claims, asset financing and general banking. One of his key objectives is to understand and be aligned to the business demand portfolio and finding innovative ways of creating affordable solutions for these demands.

Greg joined Edge Growth in 2012 within the Vumela Enterprise Development Fund and has subsequently been part of the founding team of the Edge Cape Town office and the ASISA Enterprise and Supplier Development Fund which manages over R400m on behalf of ASISA members including Santam. Greg is responsible for leading the investment team for the Fund which focuses on early stage investments into the supply chains of ASISA members representing the majority of South Africa’s asset managers and insurers.