This dynamic woman can best be described as eating, living and breathing IT and has done so since the early eighties when she joined Barclays Bank as a graphic designer, before an aptitude test led to the bank sending her on a Cobol programmers’ course.“

I subsequently realised that I preferred the technical side,” she says. “I moved to Tongaat Hulett and accumulated my masters and a number of other certifications. In 1999, I moved to Johannesburg where I joined an ICT consulting company focused primarily on law firms. Fourteen years later, I joined Norton Rose Fulbright as datacentre, networks manager and in 2018, became its regional CIO.“