Jurie Strydom

Jurie grew up in Bellville near Cape Town and completed his Bachelor of Business Science degree at the University of Cape Town in 1993 as a Sanlam bursary-holder. After spending a year on an internship in London after graduation he joined Sanlam in employee benefits in 1999. When he left in 2004 he was head of broker distribution for Sanlam Personal Finance (SPF), having qualified as an actuary and a CFA Charterholder.

Jurie was then managing director of Alexander Forbes Life, chief executive of Regent Insurance Group and an executive director of Imperial Holdings, before joining Sanlam again in January 2016 as deputy CEO of Sanlam Personal Finance (SPF), and more recently CE of SPF. He completed an MBA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011.