Jacques Barkhuizen is a Chief Information Officer (CIO) at ABSA responsible for Virtual Channels \ Digital Banking.
ABSA is a universal bank with operations in retail, wholesale and investment banking, as well as wealth management, mortgage lending and credit cards.
With more than 28 year’s experience he served in a variety of technical and leadership roles, including Chief Information Officer for Deloitte Africa, Global Chief Technology Officer for Investec Bank, Chief Technology Officer for Woolworths South Africa and played across a broad spectrum of complex and interesting landscapes including Retail, Banking, Capital Markets, Professional Services and Digital to name a few.
As Chief Information Officer he provides the requisite leadership to transform the management of information technology (IT) capabilities and services to support and enable the ABSA mission.
Jacques currently leads the digital transformation journey at ABSA for Retail and has been instrumental in the step change experienced across all digital channels at ABSA over the last 3 years. His passion for technology and ground breaking vision can be seen in solutions he has delivered over the last 20 years – with the latest being Chatbanking on Whatsapp another World 1st.
Jacques regularly attends the Stanford Business School and participates in the Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) Round Table where he has been coined as one of South Africa’s disruptive IT leaders.
