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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
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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.
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