Naidene Ford-Hoon

Ms Ford-Hoon was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer of Alexander Forbes Group Holdings on 1 September 2017. Prior to this, she was group chief financial officer of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) from 2010 to 2017. She was responsible for the group’s financial reporting and insurance portfolio and the bank’s budget, procurement, payroll, banking services and retirement fund administration. She was also a non-executive director at the SARB’s manufacturing subsidiaries: the South African Mint and the South African Banknote Company.

At the SARB, Ms Ford-Hoon introduced leading financial reporting practices which were shared at various international central banking accounting forums. She was also appointed a member of the Financial Reporting Standards Council by the Minister of Trade and Industry and represented the SARB on this committee.

In 2003 she joined AFGRI where she held two positions over her tenure: financial director in the AFGRI financial services division and marketing professional, tasked with growing the corporate debtors’ book by R1 billion, which she achieved. Ms Ford-Hoon has also held senior finance roles in the oil and gas sector.

Ms Ford-Hoon holds a BCom and a BCompt with honours degree and completed her chartered accountant articles at KPMG in 1995.