Heinie Werth

Chief Executive Officer: Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Emerging Markets

Heinie Werth is Chief Executive Officer: Sanlam Emerging Markets of Sanlam Emerging Markets, in the role since August 2019.

Sanlam Emerging Markets is the Sanlam Group cluster responsible for its businesses in Africa and beyond. Werth ran the same cluster from 2005 to 2016, then served as Sanlam's group financial director before returning to it.

In the job

  1. Moved from group financial director to chief executive of Sanlam Emerging Markets, effective 1 August 2019. Source

  2. Took over a cluster reported to run Sanlam businesses across 33 countries, while staying an executive director of the Sanlam board. Source

Career before

  1. Financial Director, Kelgran
  2. Manager: Corporate Finance, Gencor
  3. Financial Director, Sanlam Life and Sanlam Employee Benefits
  4. 2005-2016Chief Executive Officer, Sanlam Emerging Markets
  5. 2016-2019Group Financial Director, Sanlam

Education

Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)); Hons B Accountancy and MBA, University of Stellenbosch; Executive Development Programme, Manchester

Sources

  1. sanlam.com
  2. sanlam.com
  3. senspdf.jse.co.za
  4. sg.news.yahoo.com
  5. commercialriskonline.com

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