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COMPANY PROFILES

Barclays Africa

Barclays Africa Group Limited (Barclays Africa Group or the Group) is a diversified financial services provider. We offer an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management and insurance. We are building a leading financial services group in our chosen countries in Africa and selected customer and client segments.

We combine our global product knowledge with regional expertise and our extensive, well established local presence.

Key rings made by Topsy Foundation NPC

The Topsy Foundation NPC empowers families and communities to improve the care and protection of orphaned and vulnerable children. The package of services offered includes educational, medical, psycho-social and nutritional support, as well as enterprise development.

The Barclays Africa Enterprise development program was designed to teach skills and create an income for rural women in Mpumalanga. Over the past decade, it has given young rural women not only a relatively steady income, but also the self-confidence to take their lives into their own hands. Their skills and knowledge has enabled them to acquire an identity, respect and status within their community.

Reyneke Wines

Reyneke Wines is a certified Organic and Biodynamic farm and winery located in the Polkadraai Hills of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

Biodynamic agriculture comes from a time when there was a spiritual understanding of life in general and farming in particular. We try to never lose sight of this, putting people first, naming our cows instead of numbering them, and even studying the weeds (rather than just yanking them out) to learn why they’re there.

At Reyneke we strive for quality with integrity. Environmentally, this is covered by our adherence to organics and biodynamics. Culturally we do this through our Cornerstone project. Our workers are seen as the foundation of our house and the cornerstone of our business.

So, to give credit where it’s overdue, Cornerstone profits go to projects benefitting our workers and their families. To date, four worker families have been rewarded with their own homes, and currently we’re funding tertiary education for our first ‘farm child’.

Mc Alkion Water

Mc Alkion water has hexagonally shaped (six sided) water crystals which result in cellular hydration. The water has micro clustered - water molecules which are 2 to 3 times smaller than normal water molecules meaning that you will hydrate and rehydrate 4 - 6 times faster. Clients like AB de Villiers and John Deere can attest to this water.

Mc Alkion greatly assists in relieving common ailments such as migraines, irritable bowel, constipation, gout, headaches, hangovers and is excellent for rehydration, better absorption of nutrients, recovery from training and racing and flushing acid waste.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Stephen van Coller

Chief Executive Officer, Barclays Africa Corporate and Investment Bank

Stephen van Coller is the CE of Corporate and Investment Banking - Barclays Africa Group. Barclays Africa Group Limited has a diversified portfolio of businesses across 15 African countries with assets of approximately Euro 85 billion and currently employs around 45 000 people.

Stephen is a member of the Barclays Africa Group Limited Executive Committee, the Barclays Africa Group Tax Committee, the Europe, Middle East and Africa Corporate and Investment Banking Executive Committee, the Barclays Africa Group Remuneration and Promotion Committee, the Barclays Global Equity Investment Sanctioning Committee, the Barclays Group Global Investment Committee and is a Trustee of The Absa Foundation Trust.

Furthermore, Stephen also chairs the Citizenship and Innovation committees across Africa for Barclays and is a member of both the Barclays Group and the Barclays CIB Citizenship Committees.

Stephen joined Barclays Group in 2006 as Head of Primary Markets, Absa Capital.  He was appointed Chief Executive of Absa Capital, with local responsibility in South Africa for Absa Wealth, in 2009.  Barclays Africa CIB employs about 3000 people across Africa and has turnover of around R12 billion.

Before joining Barclays, Stephen was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank in Johannesburg for 10 years. His last role was Head of Corporate Coverage and Advisory. He was a member of the Executive Committee, a member of the Transformation Committee, and was also a trustee of Deutsche Bank’s social trust - which oversees the firm’s corporate social responsibility spending in the country.

Stephen’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from the University of Stellenbosch and a Higher Diploma in Accounting from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) and the United Kingdom Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

Eugene Booysen

Chief Innovation Officer, Barclays Africa

Eugene Booysen is a member of the Barclays Africa Corporate and Investment Banking Executive Committee.  Eugene leads Innovation across the firm and is responsible for driving the organisational mindset and culture on innovation.

Eugene served as Chief Risk Officer for Barclays Africa’s Corporate and Investment Banking division across Africa. Prior to this, he was Head of Market and Operational risk for then, Absa Capital and chaired the Market Risk Committee for Africa. He was part of Absa Management during the Barclay’s acquisition and part of the integration and build out of the Absa Capital Brand.

He joined the firm in 2001 as part of the Markets Trading business and went on to assume responsibility for several Head of Trading roles in Absa, Barclays Capital and Absa Capital. 

Prior to joining Barclays, Eugene was a Senior Dealer at Standard Bank of South Africa mainly focusing on Derivatives and Financial Engineering.

Eugene holds a Non executive position in Absa Capital securities the stock broking arm of the firm and is the Chairman of “Rainfin” a peer to peer lender.

Number of years of relevant experience:                            24 years

Number of years in Barclays Africa:                         14 years

Dion Chang

Dion Chang is an innovator, creative thinker and walking ideas bank. He is one of South Africa’s most respected trend analysts and takes the unique view of “trends asbusiness strategy”. While his feet remain firmly planted on African soil, he uses a global perspective to gauge the zeitgeist, source ahead-of-the-curve concepts andidentify shifting business templates. In a world struggling to adapt to a new world order, his trends analysis company – Flux Trends – specializes in understanding consumer mindset and identifying unexpected business opportunities within shifting trends, ensuring that global trends have relevance when translated for South African businesses.

He has 20 years experience in the magazine industry and as a journalist and media spokesman, which enables him to provide insights into the ever-changing relationship between brands, consumers and the communication channels that bind them. He has devised and hosted 3 trend conferences and published 3 trend books (the last being, “New Urban Tribes of South Africa”). Flux Trends currently releases industry specific trend reports every quarter. Apart from being an information source on a cross section of trends for many journalists, he currently writes columns for City Press, SAA’s Sawubona magazine, Acumen (a C-suite business quarterly for GIBS) and has a monthly radio slot on MetroFM, as well as a bi-weekly online radio slot with eBizRadio.

He is passionate about youth trends and subcultures, their impact and influence on an emerging new world order, as well as innovative ideas for greater good.

Visit: www.fluxtrends.com for more Trends as Business Strategy.

Jasandra Nyker

Ms Nyker has been the Chief Executive Officer of BioTherm Energy since July 2011. In the last four years, BioTherm has become the leading African-focused renewable energy investment and independent power producer. She has grown the business from 4MW’s of secured projects in 2011 to over 400MW’s in 2015.

BioTherm operates 52MW of wind, solar and waste gas assets in Africa, and is the only South African company to have won four projects in Round IV of the SA Renewable Energy Program. It is now considered to be the leading African renewables platform with secured PPA’s for over 300MW’s. In the last two years, BioTherm has expanded its development activities into the rest of Africa and has built a presence in seven countries.

With over 15 years of private equity international investment experience, and over ten years of renewables experience, Ms Nyker is considered to be a leader in her field. She has previously managed the direct investment portfolio on behalf of the PCG Clean Energy and Technology Fund, a $680mn global energy and clean technology investment fund based in California, USA. She played an integral role in transaction sourcing, due diligence, investment execution and post‐investment management. At part of this role, she invested in 13 companies across multiple sub‐sectors, technologies and geographies. The portfolio included investments in green infrastructure (sugar ethanol, co-generation, wind and solar thermal projects), solar and wind technology companies, water (desalination, purification) and energy efficiency technologies.

Ms. Nyker was previously a board director on four portfolio companies (Brazil, USA) and a board observer for three companies. Post investment, she played an active role in business development, fundraising (debt and follow-on equity) and international market rollout. During this time, she also served as an advisor to a Middle Eastern National Oil Company’s Energy Venture Fund.

Ms. Nyker also worked for Booz Allen Hamilton in London, where she focused on alternative energy and private equity related projects. A significant portion of her time was spent establishing and investing an alternative energy fund for one of the leading national oil companies in the Middle East, for which she subsequently led multiple alternative energy investments.

Prior to that, she worked at Lehman Brothers in London. She also worked for Brait Private Equity and Nedcor Investment Bank in South Africa.

Ms. Nyker holds an MBA from the London Business School, where she was a Merrill Lynch Scholar, and a Business Science degree in Finance from the University of Cape Town. She was nominated as a 2012 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and was part of the Inaugural Global Agenda Council on New Energy Architecture for the World Economic Forum. She also served as the Chairperson of SAWEA during 2012/2013. In 2015, she was appointed to the Department of Energy’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Energy.

Dr Auxilia Ponga

Dr Auxilia Ponga is the Representative for UN Women South Africa Multi-Country Office. Before joining UN Women, Dr Ponga worked on issues of gender equality and empowerment of women for over 20 years in Zambia, with the Southern African Development Community, with the African Union as well as with the Commonwealth Secretariat. She was a Permanent Secretary for Gender in Development Division at Cabinet Office in Zambia. She then worked as a Gender Advisor with the Commonwealth Secretariat in London and with UNDP. In UNDP, she worked as Gender Practice Leader for East and Southern Africa.

Dr. Ponga’s role in the various portfolios she held throughout her career can be summed as shaping gender agenda in policy and programmes. She has provided policy advice to governments and regional economic blocks on gender mainstreaming; developed and delivered gender mainstreaming training programmes and developed regional and national guidelines in gender mainstreaming for the public service and training institutions. She has played lead roles in monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality and the Beijing Platform for Action. She has led in monitoring and evaluating programmes and projects from a gender perspective.

Dr. Ponga holds a BA from the University of Zambia, an MA and a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK.

Zahir Khan

Zahir has extensive experience in the telecommunications sector holding various positions at South African based organisations and seeing the rapid evolution and transformation within this region. His notable achievements include successfully driving business development, product development, project management and finance. With 17 years of telecommunications experience coming at the most significant growth periods in the industry, he is well positioned to lead in the wave of connecting an unconnected Africa as the Chief Operating Officer at Project Isizwe.

Yusuf Randera ReesYusuf is the co-founder and CEO of the Awethu Project. He grew up in a mixed-race family in Apartheid South Africa, a unique experience that shaped his identity and commitment to this country. In 2000 Yusuf was one of the top matriculants in Gauteng, and took up a scholarship at Harvard University where he studied Economics from 2001 to 2005 and graduated with Honours.

Yusuf then moved to New York to work in a volatility trading group for Credit Suisse Investment Bank, before being asked to set up his group’s business in Zurich in 2006. In 2007 Yusuf was awarded a South Africa-at-Large Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where he completed two Masters degrees, the first in Financial Economics and the second in African Studies (with the long-held goal of doing business in Africa in mind!).

At Oxford the idea for the Awethu Project took root, and Yusuf entered it into the largest business plan competition in the UK, run by the Oxford Business School. The idea was one of nine finalists, creating the momentum for Yusuf to move home after graduation and put the idea to the test. Six years later Awethu has grown from a R60 000 start-up operating out of Yusuf’s parents house into the most innovative, young, black entrepreneurship development company in South Africa. The company has raised over R160 million to invest in its vision, and it is backed by individuals and institutions ranging from Archbishop Tutu to the South African Government and Discovery Holdings. It is on the cusp of making positive systemic impact in South Africa. Awethu’s work has been recognised globally by the Clinton Global Initiative, the Echoing Green Foundation, and the Skoll World Forum.

Mpho Popps Mpho Popps (Birth name Mpho Modikoane) is a remarkable South African comedian who is best known to TV viewers for being one of the superstars to compete in the sixth edition of the SABC3 reality dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing, in 2013.

Popps initially got noticed on the SABC1 competition So You Think You're Funny! in 2009 before going on to the club scene in Johannesburg, where he swiftly made a name for himself and joined some of the biggest titles in comedy, including Trevor Noah and Marc Lottering. He has consequently appeared on Blacks Only, Mzansi Magic's Opening Guys and Laugh Out Loud and on the talk show Late Night with Kgomotso. He also performed in the miniseries Taxi Ride as Kumba, a man of many faces who is a flamboyant person with a roguish side.

Popps made his primary appearance on DStv's Comedy Central station in May 2012 on the first ever episode of Comedy Central Presents... Live @ Parkers, a show which was headlined by John Vlismas. He was also a reviewer on the second season of the Vuzu show 10 Over 10, in 2013. And in 2014 he hosted the SABC1 reality cooking series The Perfect Sishebo Show.

OTHER PROFILING

Barclays BursariesBig ambitions?

We’re right behind you.

As a leader in our industry, we are keen to ensure that talented, top performing students get every opportunity to enter the world of business. And we know that, for many, a fulfilling and rewarding career may feel out of reach. It’s a goal that can be achieved only with a solid education to build upon. This is why we offer bursaries.

Qualifying criteria

University students:

• Applicants must be studying full-time for

the 2016 academic year at an accredited South African university

• Applicants must not have a criminal record

• Undergraduate students must have achieved a minimum average of 70% in the first semester for the 2015 academic year. They should also be studying to complete a Bachelor’s degree in one of the following qualifications:

- IT

- LLB

- Informatics

- Data Science

- Statistics

- Actuarial Sciences

- Risk or Investment Management

- Business Mathematics &

- Informatics (BMI)

- Engineering (Industrial or Financial or Process)

- Other relevant Mathematical Sciences

* Find out more information at the stand on the 18th of July 2015.

Barclays Rising EaglesBe one of the ones

We want the ones who stand out. We’re looking for the ones who want more and who are willing to do what it takes to get it. We’re looking for tomorrow’s leaders.

Your passion is our inspiration. Let us help you turn your ambition into reality. Together, we’ll see your potential realised; together, we’ll position you at the forefront of the industry.

Corporate and Investment Banking Programme (12 months in the Graduate Programme followed by full integration into the functional role)

As part of this stream, within Investment Banking, you’ll enter a four- to eight-week training period at the Barclays training facility in London, which means you’ll need to have a valid passport when you join us.

This is your time. And it starts right now.

Aim high. Prosper.

* Find out more information at the stand on the 17th of July 2015.