Since joining Standard Bank in 2007, Niehaus has delivered a diverse portfolio of large strategic programmes, including several core banking transformation programmes.
Her roles have included CIO for the rest of Africa, where she was responsible for IT in 16 countries, leading a repositioning of IT services aligned to the Group's strategic objective for significant growth in the rest of Africa, CIO for Personal and Business Banking and Group CTO for Group Technology Shared Services, and in 2014, Group CIO.
Her entire working career, spanning 36 years, has followed what she describes as a traditional route from programmer, analyst programmer, systems analyst, architect, to project management, where she says she found her niche.
"I think there is more I could contribute to the profession in SA such as be role model, and create a platform to show women the excellent opportunities there are in IT."
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