MAKGATI Itumeleng is an IT, business, and systems integration Executive, has nearly two decades of expertise in her field. She is the Group Executive – Information Security at the Standard Bank Group. She provides strategic vision and leadership of the Information Security Shared Services across the Group, subsidiaries and ecosystem partners, supporting information security initiatives, the associated decision making, to protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration or misuse. She is passionate about building diverse high-performance teams that thrive in the face of adversity. She was honored as a 2021 Global Top 100 Leader in Information Security by Business of InfoSec and as a Top 100 Global Chief Information Security Officer by HotTopics.ht.