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56 CEO TODAY AFRICA AWARDS 2020 South Africa Alan Patrick Pullinger CEO of FirstRand 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. f i rstrand.co . za 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.