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De Klerk to leave Santam

A process is under way to fill the CIO slot, which will be vacant at year-end.

Nicola Mawson
By Nicola Mawson, Contributor.
Johannesburg, 13 Sept 2013

Santam CIO Jan de Klerk has resigned and will leave the company at the end of the year, the short-term insurance company has said.

Santam, a subsidiary of Sanlam, says the "process to fill his post is in progress and we will announce it in due course".

De Klerk has served the Sanlam group for 14 years, having started his career at Sanlam, which owns 60% of Santam, where he held various roles, including that of GM of group IT. He joined Santam as CIO on 1 September 2008, says Santam.

The insurer says De Klerk "has played an instrumental role in running our IT systems and implementing our various IT strategic programmes". He is leaving to "pursue interests outside of Santam," it says.

According to his LinkedIn profile, De Klerk's IT career, which spans 30 years, started at Sasol, where he qualified as a computer programmer/systems analyst. He held several specialist positions in the areas of data management, information engineering, strategic information systems planning and SAP R/3 during his career at Sasol.

De Klerk practised as an enterprise architect for more than 10 years.

In 1999, he joined Sanlam, initially as its chief group IT architect, before being promoted to head of group IT and then GM of group IT. De Klerk is also chairman of the South African Short-Term Insurance Data Exchange's technical committee.

Santam has assets of more than R17 billion, countrywide contact centre infrastructure, and more than 650 000 employees.

It also holds business interests in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia, and strategic investments in various companies within the insurance industry, including the subsidiary Santam Namibia.

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