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MASTER OF CEREMONIES
WILLEM BAARS
ASHA PATEL
BONANG MOHALE
NICO PANAGIO
Managing Director
Head of Marketing
Chief Executive Officer
Actor, presenter, businessperson
Investment Banking Goldman Sachs
Google South Africa
Business Leadership South Africa
Willem Baars is Managing
Asha Ranchhod Patel
Bonang Mohale was Vice
Nico Panagio is a South
Director in the investment
is Head of Marketing at
President Upstream and the
African-born actor, presenter
banking division of
Google South Africa,
Chairman of Shell Downstream
and businessperson. He is
Goldman Sachs, executing
having recently transferred
South Africa (Pty) Limited;
the host of Survivor SA and
transactions across
from Google UK where her
Shell South Africa Holdings
presents for the hit magazine
sub-Saharan Africa.
focus was on managing
(Pty) Ltd; Shell South Africa
show, Top Billing . Nico is
global relationships with
Refinery (Pty) Ltd and South
the co-owner of an import/
consumer packaged good
African Petroleum Refinery
export business and is the
giant, Unilever.
(SAPREF) before becoming
Chairperson of Missing
CEO of Business Leadership
Children SA.
Willem joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as an analyst and became Managing Director in 2012. He holds
Asha holds degrees in
an MSc in Mechanical
Informatics from the
Engineering from the
University of Johannesburg,
He was awarded “The
runner, coffee aficionado, lover
Technical University
Honours (Cum Laude) in
Momentum Friendship Blazer”
of chocolate and drinker of fine
of Delft (1998) and an
Marketing Management
in 2015 and won the country
red wine and Irish whiskey.
MSc in Economics from
from UNISA, as well as
(RSA) and SADC Regional
the Erasmus University,
Wits and Henley Business
“Titans – Building the Nation”
Rotterdam (2000).
Schools certifications.
(2014) CEO Magazine awards.
South Africa.
He is a mountain biker, trail
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