Expertise and experience in accounting and auditing, retail and investment banking, human resources, marketing, business strategy and strategic planning, large corporates, other financial services, innovation and digital, IT and cyberresilience, corporate governance and stakeholder management.

Initially Rob joined the board as a non-executive director in October 2016. He was appointed as the Director of Managed Separation at Old Mutual plc (Nedbank Group’s former ultimate holding company) on 14 March 2016 after joining Old Mutual from a private investment company, where he had been since September 2014. Before that Rob was Global Head of Investment Banking and Global Markets of Sberbank CIB. He joined Sberbank CIB in January 2012 from Standard Bank, where he had served for over 20 years in the UK, a career that culminated in the position of Head of Group Strategic Development and Chief Executive of Global Corporate and Investment Banking. As part of the Old Mutual managed-separation process, Rob had resigned from the Nedbank boards on 15 October 2018 and was reappointed on 1 January 2019.

Rob was appointed the Chairperson of the Group Information Technology Committee on 30 October 2023, having been a member of the Committee since 1 March 2019. Rob has broad experience of IT development in large financial institutions in an international context and had oversight of Nedbank’s evolution in IT innovation, digital and cyberresilience through his Group Information Technology Committee membership.

Board committees: Chairperson: Group Information Technology Committee, Group Risk and Capital Management Committee. Member: Group Credit Committee, Large-exposures Approval Committee, Group Remuneration Committee, and Group Directors’ Affairs Committee. 

Nationality: South African.