Fred Swanepoel

Fred Swanepoel has more than 27 years’ experience in finance, banking and information technology. In 1996 Fred joined Nedbank to run regional operations in the Western Cape. In 2000 he brought his operational experience into the Group’s technology arena and was appointed Nedbank Group Chief Information Officer in November 2008. Before this he held several high-level positions in the technology environment, including Divisional Director for Finance, Risk and Compliance, Projects and Programme Management, and head of Group Software Services. He is a strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen and has been integral to the formulation, evolution and success of the group’s transformational digital and innovation programmes. He has significantly repositioned the group’s technology capability to deliver a simplified, agile and client-centred architecture. Fred’s goal is to enable Nedbank to achieve its ambition to be ‘Africa’s number one digital financial services company’.