Mpumi Tyikwe
Chief Executive Officer
Appointed: April 2022
Fellow: Insurance Institute of South Africa (FIISA)
Post-graduate Diploma in Management (University of Wales)
Mpumi, with over three decades experience in the insurance industry, has been with reputable companies such as Santam, Standard Bank, Alexander Forbes, Land Bank Insurance Services and Constantia Risk & Insurance. During his stay at these businesses, he played pivotal roles that covered business growth and what drives it, spearheaded innovation and led turnaround strategies, spanning twenty years.
His experience vastly covers aspects such as claims optimisations, customer centricity, financial capital optimisation, talent management and balanced scorecards that assist to execute strategy. Not only these, Mpumi has over the years proven his capability in leading strategy development, accompanied by interventions curated towards business growth and profitability.
Stakeholder management, through dialogue, is also one of Mpumi’s strong characteristics as he is aptly capable of seeing the benefit that perfectly suits both internal and external stakeholders.
Mpumi’s skills are deeply rooted in very strong corporate governance orientation, where he has been exposed to both private and public sectors, enabling him to understand that certain public sector governance prescripts, like the PFMA, are anchored in King IV Code of corporate governance.
Dirk Kunz
Chief Financial Officer
Appointed: May 2024
Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting (Honours), University of Pretoria (1995)
Executive Development Programme, Henley Business School (2012)
Chartered Accountant (South Africa)
Dirk joined Sasria SOC Ltd in May 2024 as Chief Financial Officer. He has more than 20 years of experience in financial reporting, financial planning and analysis, public procurement, treasury, and corporate governance in both the public and private sectors.
He believes that any finance department is expected and should contribute meaningfully to the formulation and evaluation of corporate strategy, whilst supporting value-based decision-making. He has a keen interest in synthesis, utilising it to resolve complex business problems. Dirk’s extensive background and forward-thinking mindset are instrumental in enhancing the organisation’s financial framework and overall business strategy.
Dr Nolwandle Codelia Mgoqi
Chairperson
Appointed: January 2024
BA MSc PhD
Dr. Nolwandle Mgoqi, CEO of Aon South Africa has over 25 years experience at senior executive level in South Africa’s insurance industry across long-term and short-term insurance sectors, as well as in Employee Benefits and Asset Management businesses. She is a highly driven leader with in-depth experience, with a passion for strategy development and execution, business and product development, sales distribution, marketing strategy and people development.
Nolwandle completed her undergraduate studies at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, and earned a Master of Science (MSc) from Howard University before obtaining her Ph.D. at Wits University. She also has a post Doctorate Fellowship from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Nolwandle has also completed a number of industry proficiency courses and is a Fellow of the IISA. She has also served in a number of industry committees and boards.
Her dedication to excellence in all that she does and her passion for people empowerment are evident in her ethos of “I am because we are” and “Lift others as we climb”.
Reginald Thomas Haman
Appointed: July 2020
MBA PDBA NHD Diploma in Company
Direction Executive Programme
Reginald has extensive experience as a corporate executive and director in the South African and global market, including financial services, mining, transport, pharmaceuticals, and other related sectors. His professional experience spans across various business functions, including strategic management, business re-engineering/transformation projects, enablement (Digital technology, legal, human capital, etc.) and governance functions, including risk management, internal audit & regulatory compliance. Additionally, he has substantial experience as a non-executive director, serving on various boards and sub-committees. Currently, Reginald holds a key position in a multinational pharmaceutical group, where he is an Executive Director on the listed entity’s board and a member of the Group Executive Committee.
Japhtaline Mantuka Maisela
Appointed: July 2020
Master’s in management
PGD Management
Production Management (Japan)
EDP (Wharton Business School)
Mantuka Maisela is a well-respected Professional Pension Fund Trustee and Human Resources Professional, who has contributed extensively in transformation within SA businesses as well as Pension Funds. Mantuka has served as a Board Member in various Companies in different sectors of the economy in both private and public sector. She has served as a Trustee and Specialist Adviser at the Eskom Pension and Provident Fund, the second largest Pension Fund in the African Continent for 15 years. From 2017 till 2020 she was the Chairman of the Eskom Pension and Provident Fund, she was an Independent Specialist at the Government Employee Pension Fund (the largest pension Fund in Africa) for 10 years. She has been rewarded with Awards by the National Association of Security Professionals (USA), the Association of Black Securities and Investment Professional in South Africa, as well as the Transformation Action Forum for her involvement in Transformation of the Financial Sector and fostering relationship between South African and American Pension Fund. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, a member of the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), and member of World of Work(USA).
Sathie Gounden
Appointed: July 2020
BCompt CTA CA(SA) Harvard
Business School Executive Leadership
Development Programme
Sathie has extensive auditing, accounting, forensics, consulting, and tax experience. He is an expert in financial reporting using IFRS and GRAP, with strong ethical and professional values. In addition, he is well versed in risk management, the PFMA and Treasury Regulations, King IV, the Companies Act and B-BBEE. He is a past CEO of Gobodo Inc. and past President of the national board of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa. Currently, he is the Audit & Risk Committee Chair of the Department of Public Enterprises and Mine Health & Safety Council, in addition to other Board memberships.
Desmond Marumo
Appointed: July 2020
LLM (Corporate Law) Higher Certificate
Intellectual Property Law
Desmond is a qualified legal administration professional with extensive experience in drafting and advising on collateral securities on loans, mergers and acquisitions as well as judicial management. He has lectured and delivered papers on intellectual property and has represented South Africa in various countries. He is a past Chief Operating Officer of CIPRO and currently an executive director of DMC, a consultancy specialising in private-public partnerships and intellectual property.
Refilwe Moletsane
Appointed: July 2020
B Juris MAP B Hons Insurance and
Risk Management
Refilwe has 30 years’ experience in insurance. She served as Deputy CEO of the South African Insurance Association, where she was responsible for the insurance industry’s motor insurance, legal and compliance portfolios. She joined AIG South Africa in July 2010 as the Country Compliance Officer. In 2013, she was appointed as the Compliance Leader for Africa responsible for South Africa, Kenya and Uganda, and Middle East and Africa Regional Head of Compliance in 2018. She was also instrumental in the insurance industry’s legislation and regulations debates under the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee of Finance until June 2010. Before joining SAIA in 2007, Refilwe held various portfolios in Hollard Insurance.
Margaret Mosibudi Phiri
Appointed: July 2020
CA(SA)
Margaret is a managing director of Mohale Seoka Consulting, a firm specializing in external audit, internal audit, financial accounting, tax, advisory and HR. She has extensive experience in the public sector with vast knowledge of applicable legislations such as PFMA, MFMA, Treasury Regulations and other Supply Chain Management related legislations. Furthermore, she is experienced in corporate governance, IT governance and risk management.
Deshni Subbiah
Appointed: October 2023
Certified Director® (IoDSA)
Bachelor of Science – BSc (Cum Laude)
Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA)
Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa (FASSA)
MBA
Certificate in Investments from the Institute of Actuaries in the UK
Post-Graduate Diploma in General Management – PGDip (Distinction)
Deshni is a qualified actuary with over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, with close to 10 of those years as a Director (Executive and Non-Executive positions), serving on numerous Committees including Audit, Risk, HR and Remuneration, Nominations, Investment, Insurance, Actuarial, Finance, Credit, as well as Social and Ethics. She currently serves on numerous Boards as an Independent Non-Executive Director and has previously served as the Chairperson of the Short-Term Insurance Committee for the Actuarial Society of South Africa.
Her key strengths include:
- Strategy and Innovation
- ESG, Ethics, Governance and King IV
- Actuarial, Investments and Risk Management
- Finance, Audit and Combined Assurance
- Legal and Compliance
- Due Diligence for Business Acquisition as well as the set-up of new businesses
Johannes Jacobus Venter
Appointed: October 2023
Bachelor of Science Hons (Mathematical Statistics)
Bachelor of Science (Mathematics)
Fellow –Faculty of Actuaries, Scotland
Advanced Management Program
Fellow Inst.D
He is the chairman of the board of directors of Bidvest Life and the AVBOB Mutual Society, and an independent director of the board of Sasria. He is also a major shareholder and chairman of Wealth Succession, a fiduciary, wills and estates advisory business. Jannie further provides business and actuarial consultancy services, working with both start-ups and established businesses.
Jannie gained in-depth understanding of bancassurance as the Managing Director of ABSA Life from 2011 to 2017, including the oversight of the life insurance business within the ABSA Group in Botswana, Kenya, Zambia and Mozambique. Prior to this, he spent some 18 years in various product and business development roles in both Liberty Life and Metropolitan Life (now part of the MMI group), mainly in the individual life insurance market.
Through these roles, he gained extensive experience having served on various boards and sub-committees as a past member of Council of the Actuarial Society of South Africa. He further served on industry associations in different capacities. This experience includes engaging both with regulators and competitors on various issues of mutual concern and interest.
