Botswana Fibre Networks Annual Report 2021
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1.
PELANI SIWAWA-NDAI - BOARD CHAIRPERSON
YOLISA PHILIPS-LEJOWA - VICE-CHAIRPERSON
Ms. Pelani Siwawa-Ndai is the Chairperson of the BoFiNet Board of Directors. She is currently the Managing Director of Emergence Growth Botswana (Pty) Ltd. She is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and Consultant. Ms. Siwawa-Ndai spent many years working as a central banker at Bank of Botswana, where she rose through the ranks of Economist, Deputy Director of Banking Supervision Department and ultimately became Head of the Secretariat Department, a position she held at the time of her retirement.
Ms. Yolisa Philips-Lejowa is a Member of the Board of Directors of BoFiNet and serves on the Board Tender Committee and Board Human Resources Committee. She has over 22 years of experience in the banking industry, with extensive involvement in the Digital Banking environment. Her professional achievements include active roles in introducing innovative solutions such as online banking, cell phone banking, FNB e-Wallet, and mobile banking apps into the Botswana market.
As a Policy Analyst/Advisor at Business Botswana, a position she held on secondment from the Bank, Ms. Siwawa-Ndai was part of a team that led in articulating business concerns and policy issues for advocacy and engagement with the Government. Her areas of work are Strengths-Based Development and consulting in the Human Resources and Economic spheres. She possesses a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Master of Arts in Economics from the Universities of Botswana and Kent at Canterbury, England, respectively. Furthermore, her other Board engagements are serving as a Board Chairperson at the Botswana Building Society and Emergence Growth Botswana.
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Currently, she is part of the Virtual Payments Solutions (VPS) team, providing integration and aggregation services to manage virtual payments and disbursement solutions.
