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57 CEO TODAY AFRICA AWARDS 2020 South Africa Mike Brown CEO of Nedbank About Mike Brown Mike was appointed as Chief Financial Officer in June 2004 and as Chief Executive in March 2010. He is currently Chair of the Banking Association SA. He was previously an executive director of BoE Limited and, after the merger between Nedbank Limited, BoE Bank Limited, Nedcor Investment Bank Limited and Cape of Good Hope Bank Limited in 2003, he was appointed Head of Commercial Property Finance at Nedbank Limited. Mike has expertise in accounting, auditing, large corporates, retail and investment banking, other financial services, HR, business strategy and strategic planning, and doing business in emerging economies. Board committees: Member: Group Transformation, Social and Ethics Committee, Large-exposure Approval Committee, Group Credit Committee, and Group Risk and Capital Management Committee. Firm Profile Nedbank Group is incorporated in the Republic of South Africa and our registration number is 1966/010630/06. Our ordinary shares have been listed on JSE Limited (the JSE) since 1969 under the share code: NED and on the Namibian Stock Exchange since 2007 under the share code: NBK. Our ISIN is ZAE000004875. We offer the following solutions through our frontline clusters, Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking, Nedbank Retail and Business Banking, Nedbank Wealth and Nedbank Africa Regions: A wide range of wholesale and retail banking services. A growing insurance, asset management and wealthmanagement offering. Our presence Nedbank Group’s primary market is South Africa, however, we are continuing to expand into the rest of Africa. We have a presence in five countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and East Africa region where we own subsidiaries and banks in Namibia, Swaziland, Mozambique, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, as well as representative offices in Angola and Kenya. In West and Central Africa we follow a partnership approach and concluded the acquisition of an approximate 21% shareholding in Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) in 2014, enabling a unique one-bank experience to our clients across the largest banking network in Africa, comprising more than 2 000 branches in 39 countries. www.nedbank.co.za