Bank Aljazira بنك الجزيرة

Bank AlJazira is a leading Shariah-compliant Islamic Bank in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It's core purpose is to enrich lives through financial wellbeing by providing a variety of tailored and personalized financial products and services through its Retail, Corporate & Business Banking and AlJazira Capital businesses.
- Digitally transforming the Group to meet its growth target of doubling the business by 2024
- Repositioning the Bank's brand, customer base and building a financial ecosystem
- Identifying, partnering and launching new Fintech businesses
- Building and rolling new digital capabilities in the form of Cloud Computing, AI/AA, Social Media, Blockchain and Internet of Things
- Creating JV opportunities and partnership to improve bank performance and impact
- Driving holistic Investor Relations management with an ESG focus

SVP: Group Head of Strategy & Digital Transformation, Marketing & PR

GetSmarter

As the learning facilitator on the MIT Organizational Design for Digital Transformation, we help explore the five key dimensions required for successful digital transformation. Through insights from MIT faculty, participants will learn the capabilities needed to succeed in the digital marketplace. Case studies from organizations that have successfully implemented digital transformation efforts will expose participants to a variety of knowledgeable executives and thought leaders.

Assessor & Learning Facilitator: MIT Sloan Organizational Design for Digital Transformation

Kupanda.co

Kupanda develops, produces and supplies African natural botanical ingredients. It focuses on high-value, esoteric, natural products sourced across Africa for use in the global beauty, personal care and food industries.  Key responsibilities include:

- Board-member and Director Business
- Strategy and incubation 
- Business enablement advisor

Board Member & Non-Executive Director

Absa Group

Powering the Absa Group Limited strategy of doubling the share of revenue in Africa and becoming a banking group Africa will be proud of. Wealth, Investment Management and Insurance is a leading provider of ﬁnancial services products and solutions operating across ﬁve African geographies. Key achievements and outcomes:
- Leading over a team of over 100 people to deliver exceptional customer and colleague experiences across the group through digital channels, business platforms and new operating models
- Transforming the business through the portfolio management of 13 ﬁnancial services licenses, prioritisation and investment decisions of ZAR 500m 
- Reducing operational cost-to-income by 15% whilst generating a return-on-investment of 17% 
- Making an impact by building a new Pan-African Bank that oﬀers universal ﬁnancial services to help over 10 million businesses and communities grow 
- Launching the new Absa brand across the continent across 42k employees including the brand and culture transition 
- Building a new oﬀshore international wealth oﬀering, continental HR digital platform and converged cybersecurity 
- Creating an innovation platform and establishment of an innovation hub in partnerships with a leading academic university 
- Leaving a legacy through enabling career growth and skills development to the value of ZAR 10m
- Building a diversiﬁed and dynamic, modern workforce with a worldclass female:male ratio (70:30)

Director: Strategic Initiatives and Digital Transformation

Barclays

Barclays Africa Financial Services (AFS) is a provider of non-banking ﬁnancial products and services. The business enables the manufacture and distribution of Fiduciary, Pension Funds, Trusts, Life and Short-Term Insurance products Integrated the Wealth and Investment Management business to unlock the ZAR 3bn synergies of institutional and retail customers. Key achievements and outcome:
- Supporting the Head of Strategy to develop market and business related insights and to shape the future direction and structure of the Wealth, Investment Management & Insurance (WIMI) cluster
- Organisation design and development including medium term budgeting
- Designed and launched the new operating model for short and life businesses in ﬁve African territories resulting in increased growth contribution of 20% in regional operations 
- Led the group response to retirement reform including the ZAR 100m revenue business opportunity contained within the Stockbroker, Fund Managers (Collective Investment Schemes) and Retail Bank channels 
- Execution accountability for the development and implementation of innovation solutions such as robo-advisor, biometrics and single view of customer

VP Strategy & Planning: Wealth, Investment Management & Insurance

KPMG

KPGM is one of the world’s leading organizations focused on creating and sustaining value for clients, developing innovative, technology-driven solutions to solve business challenges and help them grow and achieve financial results. Key achievements and outcomes

- Strategy management consultant across multiple industries with a specific focus on end-to-end Business Transformation, Customer Management and African Market Expansion Strategies
- Building out a new Management Consulting capability 
- Sales growth and pipeline development> 200%
- Client lead for Aeronautical and Financial Services conglomerate

Senior Manager: Strategy, Customer and Growth

Accenture

Accenture is a world-leading management consulting, technology and outsourcing services organisation, with oﬃces and operations in more than 200 cities in 56 countries. Key achievements and outcomes:
-Deep industry strategy and implementation experience in Financial Services, Telecommunications and Energy spanning over 10 years 
- Driven +20 business transformation engagements resulting in improved customer experiences, new data capabilities and digital business models 
- Implemented 3 large scale customer centricity programmes, 2 core banking systems, 2 digital transformation initiatives and 1 global analytics centers of excellence
- Led over 10 programmes that drove recruitment and talent management of colleagues in Europe, Africa and Australasia 
- Created and published the Global Customer Survey across 5 industries

Manager: Accenture Management Consulting

Naspers Limited

Graudate Management Programme with a highly specialised focus on business process re-engineering and digitial migration of business capabilities.

Graduate Management Programme

Strategy & Digital Transformation expert with over two decades of experience designing, building, and operationalizing new businesses and brands in the Financial Services industry globally. Winner of the Most Innovative Islamic Bank in 2022, Best Digital Transformation in 2021, nominated for the 2019 Global PMO Awards, and Best Business Leader in Ops in 2018 and 2017, Nahim is a double master's holder and doctoral candidate with ASU's Thunderbird School of Management focusing on AI, Digital, and ESG. Nahim has completed the Senior Executive Programme (SEP94) at London Business School, the Innovation Programme at Harvard Business School, Singularity University Executive Programme (SU) and is currently coaching executives on the MIT Sloan Executive Education course on Organization Design for Digital Transformation.

If you are keen to have a chat about joining a board, public speaking, or simply grabbing a coffee, drop me an email on nahim.bassa@gmail.com

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