Amanda Dambuza

Amanda is the Chief Executive Officer of Uyandiswa; a project management consulting firm she founded 7 years ago.
She is also the Founder and Director of Leadership Development Strategies, a company founded in 2016 with the purpose of mentoring, coaching, identifying talent and team development.
She was until recently also the Financial Services Director of the JSE listed software organisation, Adapt IT.
Prior to founding her own companies, Amanda had spent most of her 13-year corporate career in Information Technology within the Financial Services industry.
She held various senior roles at all four major banks in South Africa with her last role as a Chief Information Officer at Barclays Africa where she drove a change budget close to R1bn for the functions of the bank.
This was spread across the 13 countries in Africa, including South Africa.
Her clients were the most senior Executives heading up the various Divisions within the bank.
These were Finance, Compliance, Risk, Sourcing, Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Corporate Real Estate, Security, Internal Audit, Legal, Treasury and Barclays Shared Services.
She drove demand management, prioritisation, execution as well as service management and support.
Her span of accountability further extended to the Technology Competency Centres of SAP, SharePoint and Reconciliations where she led multiple teams locally and internationally to deliver all IT services to the Enterprise Shared Functions.
She has solid experience as a Board member and has served as Chairperson of Grindrod Bank.
She currently serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Redefine Properties, a leading South African-based Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), invested in a diverse property asset platform.