Lungile is an experienced executive with business & IT leadership expertise acquired over two decades of experience in leadership roles that span roles in business & technology consulting (Partner in Digitalisation), financial services (Country Managing Director), entrepreneurship (CEO|COO own entity) and Enterprise Information Technology (CIO). Lungile holds a MSc in Engineering from UCT and a certificate in Business Innovation from Stanford University in California. Lungile achieved his transition from engineering to business through more than 16 years of management consulting. Lungile has enjoyed numerous career achievements including the shortest time to Partner at a Global Consulting firm, CEO at Diebold to avert a devastating Labour unrest and COO in his own company and now Group CIO at Sasol in charge of both IT and Digital. Lungile’s passion has always being about how much collaboration and team alignment can be achieved to drives a congruent business strategy. Lungile has for over a year played the role of Sasol Group CIO to align the IT Strategy to match the business strategy while strengthen the mentality of the Digital IT organisation that does three things exceptional well, first certify and safeguard platform new & existing across Sasol landscape, second become one-with-business transitioning from relationship management to value through Product Portfolios, third do “brilliant basics” with IT service with the focus on measuring and actioning user experience. Less   View all posts

Michael Ruttledge is Chief Information Officer for Citizens Financial Group, Inc. He oversees all aspects of the bank’s technology environment, from customer- and client-facing applications to the people, processes and infrastructure supporting Citizens’ day-to-day business operations. Before joining Citizens in 2019, Ruttledge served as a group chief information officer at American Express. He has more than 20 years of experience in infrastructure and engineering roles within the financial services industry including payments, merchant services, customer service, risk, fraud, banking and finance. He has been recognized for developing the vision, strategy and innovative culture to execute new digital capabilities, big data, payments, and next generation analytics platforms that advance business strategies. Ruttledge has a Master of Science degree in Information Systems from Brighton University in the United Kingdom. Less   View all posts