Classic Business

CEO Roy Douglas

CFO Rob Field

Nick Kunze, portfolio manager at Sanlam Private Wealth & Makwe Masilela, CIO of Makwe Fund Managers

In this weekly feature Michael Avery gets up close and personal with South Africa’s business and political economy leaders, to uncover what makes them tick, keeps them up at night and keeps them going through the Covid storm.This week’s guest has a lengthy background in the ICT sector and has served, among others, at the State IT Agency, as senior research analyst at BMIT, as research manager at ISETT SETA and in an executive capacity at Torque –IT Holdings and BCX.

She holds several professional qualifications, including a BSc Genetics from Wits as well as project management, sales and marketing and business management qualifications. She also served on the boards of Stortech, Arbez, SANGONet, Black IT Forum (BITF), and Information Technology Association (ITA). Tebogo Makgatho, CEO of Netcampus shares how she grew from an ICT sector research analyst tasked with unpacking industry trends to acquiring SA’s first wholly black woman owned ICT training company back in 2017.

Warwick Lucas, CIO of Galileo Asset Management & Raymond Parsons, from School of Business and Governance at North West University

The recent data breach through credit bureau Experian of massive amounts of Standard Bank client data has once again brought the issue of cyber security to the fore. The risks are not only increasing at a company level but at a country level too as we see a cyber cold war brewing between the US and Russia and the US and China. Michael Avery interviews one of America's most well-informed and insightful experts on international affairs and foreign policy. He has an especially strong background in cyber security, US intelligence, US-Russia relations, and the challenges of the changing international order. George Beebe is Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for National Interest and his recent book (August 2019), The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe, examines how changing technology, the dysfunctional politics, garbled communications, and unsettled regional conflicts are combining to trap the US and Russia in a disastrous escalation spiral neither one wants or expects.

Greg Campbell, head of specialised finance at Nedbank Business Banking

CEO Mitch Slape

Prof Adrian Puren, head of the Centre for HIV and STIs at NICD

Jeremy Sampson, MD of Brand Finance Africa