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

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 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 at Sberbank CIB. He joined Sberbank CIB in January 2012 from Standard Bank, where he had served for over 20 years in the United Kingdom, most recently as Head of Group Strategic Development and Chief Executive of Global Corporate and Investment Banking. 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 in information technology 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. Rob is also the chairperson of the Group Risk and Capital Management Committee, which oversees Nedbank’s risk governance, capital management and enterprise-wide risk frameworks. He has extensive risk management experience in large financial institutions within an international context.

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

Nationality: South African.