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CHRISTELLE M AR AIS
EXECUTIVE DIREC T OR , L UCIDUM

Since 1991, Christelle has been active in various roles within corporates such as
Department of Science & Technology, IRMSA, Marsh, Sasol, South African Post Office
and various clients across Africa in governance, company secretarial services, risk
management, ethics, compliance, business continuity management, risk financing
(insurance, cell captives), litigation, economic crime as well as asset and liability
management. Christelle’s career has provided her with experience in various industries
including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, retail, agriculture,
energy, mining and government entities. She has served in various capacities at
subsidiary, joint venture and group levels and has often been co-opted to conduct
risk management for major organisational change and restructuring projects.
Christelle’s focus is to enable Boards, Risk Committees, Audit Committees, Social &
Ethics Committees, EXCOs and divisional teams through risk intelligent programs
to govern risk and make informed decisions. She has developed risk management
frameworks (policy, strategy, standards, processes and risk maturity evaluations) for
various entities and serves as independent board and/or committee member.

THUL ANI MKHUNGO
CHIEF RISK OFFICER , SPECIAL INVESTIGATING
UNIT (SIU)

Thulani Mkhungo worked for Transnet Freight Rail as the Senior Manager driving
Infrastructure Capital Projects risks for more than 6 years before he moved to join
Special Investigating Unit in February 2016 as the Chief Risk Officer where he
established the Enterprise Risk Management & Internal Audit Department.

P A UL NEL
ENER GY LEAD : AFRIC A , A UREC ON

Paul has been involved in the Power Generation field for 27 years. During his time
at Aurecon he has been actively involved in expanding our business interest in the
African Renewable market driven by significant growth in the South African Wind and
Solar market under the South African REIPPP program as well as Hydro in the whole
of Africa. Prior to this he was largely involved in construction, refurbishment and
upgrading, commissioning, performance testing, general engineering and technical
management in the field of hydroelectric generation.

He has worked in many African countries as well as in the Middle East. These
experiences as well as his interest in African and World economics have strengthened
his interest and passion for the development of South Africa and Africa.

ALEX R OBERT S
REGIONAL DIREC T OR : SALES AND OPER ATIONS , CUR A
SOFT W ARE

Alex has been involved in the enterprise software space for the past 14 years and in
the risk space for 10 Years. Alex is the Regional Director for Sales and Operations for
Cura Software South Africa. Cura offers a variety of Governance, Risk, Compliance and
Audit Software Solutions and has in over 250 enterprise customers worldwide across
a number of verticals including global 500, Insurance, Financial Services and Utilities
Companies.