On Being A (Woman) Leader In Tech

With an impressive CV working in mainly male-dominated sectors, Sinazo Sibis shares her secret weapons.

- Sinazo Sibisi

With over 30 years of senior-level executive experience, Sibisi has worked in a number of top-tier organisations in both the private and public sectors, as well as serving on numerous boards. She has recently been appointed as Wyzetalk’s Managing Director of Africa, Canada and Australia. Before that, Sibisi served as an elected politician as well as an executive at the City of Cape Town and South Africa Local Government Association. In 2000, she was appointed as a Member of a Special Ministerial Task Team on the Establishment of Municipalities.

As a Director of Deloitte Southern Africa, she led the Public Sector Industry cluster and served on the Global Public Sector Management Board and the Management Team for Consulting. She was also the first African black woman to be appointed on to the Deloitte Executive Committee, heading up Corporate Affairs. At the Development Bank of Southern Africa, Sibisi inter alia served as the Chief Investment Officer of the Local Economic Development Fund, the Divisional Executive: Planning, the Group Executive: Strategy, Marketing and Communications, and as Group Executive: Infrastructure Delivery.