Professional History: Natalie is the Group Digital Executive Officer at Sanlam, a multinational, diversified financial services group offering services to individuals and institutional clients. Sanlam has an international footprint with a presence in more than 10 African countries, India, Malaysia, Philippines, the UK and Ireland, the US, Switzerland and Australia.

Previously, Natalie had been the youngest chief executive to run a mobile money business in Africa, EcoCash. EcoCash is Zimbabwe’s leading and fastest-growing mobile money service in Africa of telecoms giant, Econet Wireless, and was the 2017 Corporate recipient of the Mobile World Congress "Best Mobile Payment Solution" at the Glomo Awards.

With more than 11 years of experience in financial technology, she began her career as a software engineer, eventually moving to investment banking and retail banking sectors, across the EMEA region. Prior to joining EcoCash, she was a Senior Mobile Financial Services Consultant at a Fortune 500 company, NCR Corporation, where she developed NCR’s digital financial service strategy across 52 countries.

Academic and professional credentials: BSc in Information Technology
MBA from Imperial College, London, UK. (Specialisation in Hi-tech Strategy and Corporate Turnaround)

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