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SBN HOLDINGS LIMITED Annual Report 2022

42 OUR ACCOUNTABILITY Non-executive directors* continued Suné Brugman Non-executive director QUALIFICATIONS BA LLB and Mining Tax Certificate cum laude EXPERIENCE Suné Brugman, was appointed as a non-executive director of SBN Holdings Limited and Standard Bank Namibia Limited effective 15 December 2022. Suné is a currently the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Standard Bank Group. She is responsible for Data and Analytics for Standard Bank Group Banking and other financial services. Additionally, Suné leads group wide data culture, ethics, privacy and governance transformation programmes and, as an executive, she is also responsible for establishing and leading a strategic scenario planning group/capability for Standard Bank Group mandated by the Group Chief Executive. Previously Suné served as the chief risk officer, a traditional embedded role and scope that included Corporate Credit Model Development, Trading Analytics, Sovereign and Country Risk as well as Equity Risk. She also served as the Global Head: Debt Products - Investment Banking in the Corporate Investment Banking unit of Standard Bank Group. During that tenure, she was responsible for management of global debt teams based across Africa, Middle East, UK and Asia. DIRECTORSHIPS ■SBN Holdings Ltd ■Standard Bank Namibia Ltd. ■Deutsche Internationale Schule ■ Farm 1326 Banhoek (Pty) Ltd Silke Hornung Independent non-executive director QUALIFICATIONS B Com Hons Accounting Sciences; CA (Nam); Chartered Management Accountant ACMA CGMA; Administration of Estates Diploma EXPERIENCE Silke Hornung, was appointed as a non-executive director of SBN Holdings Limited and Standard Bank Namibia Limited effective 26 July 2022. Silke is a qualified Chartered Accountant as well as Chartered Management Accountant with specific skills in analysing detail of numbers, corporate governance and ethics, risk management, internal and external audit as well an in-depth understanding of investment management. She has over 12 years senior executive experience at Bidvest Namibia Limited; spent two years as Wealth Manager at Pointbreak and two years as director at NamPower, among others. She is also a qualified financial executive with superior expertise in financial analyses and reporting from multinational corporates to SMEs. She held numerous executive positions in the corporate world and serves on a number of public and private companies' boards of directors. DIRECTORSHIPS ■SBN Holdings Limited ■ Standard Bank Namibia Limited ■Namibia Power Corporation (Proprietary) Limited (NamPower) Nangosora Ashley Tjipitua Independent non-executive director QUALIFICATIONS MBC (University of Stellenbosch), LLB (University of Namibia), B.Juris (University of Namibia) EXPERIENCE Ms Tjipitua is a Legal and Corporate Governance Practitioner; she has worked in the legal and governance profession for over 13 years of which nine years have been at a management and senior executive level. Her professional expertise includes commercial litigation, organizational management, corporate legal advice, board governance, compliance risk management and competition law. Ms Tjipitua served as a director for the enforcement department at the Namibian Competition Commission, where she led significant market intervention in various industries and sectors, including the financial sector. DIRECTORSHIPS ■Business Intellectual Property Authority of Namibia (BIPA) ■ Allan Gray Namibia (Pty) Ltd ■ Allan Gray Namibia Unit Trust Management Ltd Executive directors Mercia Geises Chief executive director QUALIFICATIONS BJuris (UNAM), LLB (UFS), LLM (UFS), MBA (USB), Global Executive Leadership Programme (London Business School) EXPERIENCE Mercia was appointed to the board of SBN Holdings and Standard Bank Namibia on 1 May 2021 as chief executive officer. Previously, Mercia was the Head of the former Personal and Business Banking segment from July 2016 to April 2021. Prior to her time at the SBN Holdings group, she worked through the ranks at the Old Mutual Namibia Group from 2005 to 2016 in various senior roles, ranging from Assistant Portfolio Manager to the CEO of OMIGNAM and Unit Trust. She is also an admitted legal practitioner and completed her legal articles with what was known as Dr Weder, Kruger & Hartmann in 2005. DIRECTORSHIPS ■SBN Holdings Ltd ■Standard Bank Namibia Ltd ■ Standard Insurance Brokers (Namibia) (Pty) Ltd ■Stanfin (Namibia) (Pty) Ltd Letitea du Plessis Chief financial officer QUALIFICATIONS BACC (University of Stellenbosch), PDA (University of Stellenbosch), ACA (UCT), ACIDealing (Cert), CA(SA), Global Executive Leadership Programme (London Business School) EXPERIENCE Letitea was appointed to the board of SBN Holdings and Standard Bank Namibia on 10 February 2020. Letitea is currently Standard Bank Namibia Chief Financial Officer a position she held since July 2019. In the past she also served as Head: Treasury (2017 to 2019) and Head: Investment Banking (2014 to 2017) and prior Manager: Investment Banking (2012 to 2014). Letitea worked as Senior Auditor (2006- 2007) and Audit Trainee (2003- 2005) for PricewaterhouseCoopers (UK and Namibia) before she joined Standard Bank Namibia. DIRECTORSHIPS ■Arleo Investments Sixteen (Pty) Limited ■ Purros Investments (Pty) Limited ■SBN Holdings Ltd ■ Standard Bank Namibia Ltd ■Mobicash Payment Solutions (Pty) Limited COMMITTEES COMMITTEES COMMITTEES SBN HOLDINGS LIMITED 43 Annual report 2022 COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS APPOINTED 2023 APPOINTED 2022 APPOINTED 2023 APPOINTED 2021 APPOINTED 2020 BCC BIT BRC BAC CSI BPC None of the directors have been involved in the disclosures pertaining to section 4.10(b)(ii) - (xii) of the JSE debt listing requirements. O Committee chairman
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