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www.ceotodaymagazine.com 66 CEO Today Africa Awards 2019 south africa ALAN PATRICK PULLINGER CEO FirstRand FIRM PROFILE FirstRand is a portfolio of integrated financial services businesses and offers a universal set of transactional, lending, investment and insurance products and services. The group’s objective is to build long-term franchise value and deliver superior and sustainable returns within acceptable levels of volatility. The group recognises that, as a systemic provider of financial products and services, it has a material impact on a broad set of communities and stakeholders. FirstRand is recognised as a highly innovative business that encourages and rewards different thinking from its people. It has created Perspectives, a portal of specifically commissioned, original content, to provide writers, authors, artists, thinkers, academics, researchers and visionaries a platform to share new ideas and unique concepts. FirstRand Limited, through its portfolio of integrated financial services businesses, operates in South Africa, certain markets in sub-Saharan Africa, the UK, and India. The group’s track record of delivering superior returns to shareholders has been achieved through a combination of organic growth, acquisitions, innovation and the creation of completely new businesses. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the Namibian Stock Exchange (NSX), FirstRand Limited is the largest financial institution by market capitalisation in Africa. FirstRand can provide its customers with differentiated and competitive value propositions due to its unique and highly flexible model of leveraging the most appropriate brand, distribution channel, licence and operating platform available within the portfolio. This approach, which is underpinned by the disciplined allocation of financial resources and enabled by disruptive digital and data platforms, allows the group to fully optimise the franchise value of its portfolio. This has resulted in a long track record of consistent growth in high quality earnings, and superior and sustainable returns for shareholders. As demonstrated in the schematic below, the group’s strategic framework accommodates a broad set of growth opportunities across the financial services universe from a product, market, segment and geographic perspective. FirstRand commits to building a future of SHARED PROSPERITY through enriching the lives of its customers, employees and the societies it serves. This is the foundation to a sustainable future and will preserve the group’s enduring promise to create long- term value and superior returns for its shareholders. FirstRand is known for delivering on its promises – a reputation that stems from its unique philosophy of owner-management. ABOUT ALAN PATRICK PULLINGER Alan Patrick Pullinger is Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director at FirstRand Ltd. and on the board of 10 other companies. Mr. Pullinger previously held the position of Chief Executive Officer & Director at Rand Merchant Bank. Mr. Pullinger received an undergraduate degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. www.firstrand.co.za