Sanlam Limited and Sanlam Life Insurance Limited announced that Ms. Thembisa Skweyiya has been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive director, effective 18 October 2022. Her appointment has been approved by the Prudential Authority in terms of the Insurance Act No 18 of 2017. Thembisa is an accomplished businesswoman with executive and non-executive director experience on the boards of listed and unlisted entities.

Her broad experience spans across a number of business sectors and various fields, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, development finance, empowerment transactions and structured corporate finance. Thembisa is a former Investment Banker, having occupied roles at Citigroup in Johannesburg and Nedbank Capital. She started her career in the legal profession with White & Case in New York and later moved to their Johannesburg office.

Thembisa has been educated in South Africa (UKZN and Wits) and USA (Harvard), holds a B.Proc, LLB LLM degrees, an H.Dip Tax and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1998.