Natalie JABANGWE

Group Digital Executive Officer, Sanlam

Natalie is responsible for spearheading Sanlam's digital financial services transformation, ventures, partnerships and ecosystem development included. She is the former and youngest chief executive to have run a mobile money business in Africa, EcoCash. EcoCash is Zimbabwe’s leading and fastest-growing mobile money service in Africa of telecoms giant, Econet Wireless and was the 2017 corporate recipient of the Mobile World Congress "Best Mobile Payment Solution", Glomo Awards. With over 13 years of experience in Finance and Technology, she began her career as a software engineer in London, UK, eventually moving to Investment banking and retail banking sectors, across the EMEA region. Prior to joining EcoCash, she was a Senior Mobile Financial Services Consultant at a Fortune 500 company, NCR Corporation, where she developed NCR’s digital financial service strategy across 52 countries.