Chrisanthi Michaelides
Head: Finance
“What lies before us and what lies behind us are nothing compared to what lies within us.”
Chrisanthi is a qualified chartered accountant and has passed the JSE exams. After completing her articles at Karlin Taback Pelkowitz and Berman she started her career in internal auditing at Liberty Life. After two years she moved to HSBC, the then stock broking business, as Assistant Financial Manager. After six months she was promoted to Financial Manager. After a year she moved into a Management Information Analyst role for the retail and institutional business of HSBC. Two years later she took on the role to set up the finance and reporting banking environment of the now HSBC Bank in South Africa. After six years at HSBC she moved to Rand Merchant Bank. At RMB she was involved as a Business Analyst in the regulatory department and later moved on to the projects department in central finance as Head: Business Architecture. Today she has more than 10 years of financial services experience and 6 years of banking experience. In 2009 she completed the Bankseta Executive Leadership course through Gibbs and the University of Rotterdam.