Give us a ‘B, now give us an ‘R’…
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Give us a ‘B, now give us an ‘R’…
Miles Japhet
Miles has over 30 yrs experience in the insurance industry and is on the board of a number of Life and short term insurance companies both locally and internationally. He is the non-executive chairman of BrightRock.
Non-executive directors
Johnny Symmonds
Johnny is currently the Managing Director of Lombard Insurance Company Ltd. He started his career in 1991 as a senior manager of Deloitte & Touche, London and in 1997, Johnny became partner in charge of the Financial Institutions Services Team. Johnny moved into the Hollard Group in 1999 as a Director of Hollard Holdings (Pty) Ltd. He was then appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Mercantile Lisbon Bank Holdings in 2003. Johnny is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a B.Com (Hons) from UCT. Johnny is also a non-executive director of BrightRock.
Non-executive directors
Dean Hyde
Dean Hyde, a chartered accountant, joined the Lombard Group in 2009 as the financial director. Since then, he has been a driving force behind the corporate formation and structuring of the Lombard Group as it is today. After studying overseas, Dean joined the Spur Group where he was the financial director and where he is still a non-executive member of the Board today. He joined Lombard after five years at Xanitha, an eco-friendly board manufacturing company of which he was a co-founder and financial director.
Non-executive directors
Rob Rusconi
Rob Rusconi, a prominent researcher, thinker and Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, London, has nearly 20 years’ financial services experience. Before joining Lombard Life, he was an independent consultant to Government on social security and pension system design. He also held positions at prestigious financial services and consulting firms locally and internationally including Old Mutual, Sanlam, FT.com (website of the Financial Times) and US asset manager, SEI. Rob is General Manager at Lombard Life and a non-executive director of BrightRock (Pty) Ltd.
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Non-executive directors
Matthew Marais
Matthew, who is the Lombard-appointed manager of the BrightRock relationship, previously worked at Accenture in management consulting. Matthew was a UMA portfolio manager in the Lombard Partnerships business for two years before moving to head up the Lombard Life partnerships business.
