Accompany Advisory

B-BEE Level 2 Black Woman Owned firm, that has been a strategic partner to a top-tier (MBB) firm, working on strategic and operational transformations through advanced analytics, critical thinking, complex problem solving, and proactive performance and program management. Holds minority strategic investments in digital and disruptive businesses.

Managing Director

Nomanini

1️⃣ Co-founded digital informal sector banking platform; supported CEO and Exco; Non-Executive Director advising on strategy, value drivers, partnerships, talent sourcing, and financing to scale and grow.
2️⃣ Led commercial team of six direct reports across Africa and Middle East driving pipeline of organic and inorganic deals. Exco CCO role works with Product, Operations, and Engineering.
3️⃣ Drove Exco recruiting (Product, Operations Heads; CFO), and strategic projects around growth strategy, organisational structure, process improvement, ways of working; to drive clarity, performance growth.

Co-Founder; Investor; Board Director; Director Special Projects; CCO

Industrial Development Corporation

The IDC drives industrial value chain growth and development impact in Sub-Saharan Africa across its asset base of R120bn+. Worked with the CEO and Exco to articulate and drive delivery momentum across six key themes focused on IDC's twin pillars of financial sustainability and development impact.

Strategic Advisor to CEO

Spencer Stuart

Spencer Stuart is trusted by major multinationals and emerging companies around the world to help them make senior-level leadership decisions that have a lasting impact on their enterprises. Supported Exco teams source scarce talent and align on growth-focused strategic agendas. Worked across industries, with a focus on financial services, TMT, and FAANG.

Director

City of Johannesburg

Board member involved in strategic planning, policy critique, monitoring and challenging performance of executive team and wider management for a City of Johannesburg MOE.

Board Member, Director (Independent NXD)

McKinsey & Company

Strategy and management consultant across industries (esp. TMT, Energy, Logistics). Experience with internal firm building through best-practice consultant training and onboarding.

Management Consultant, Engagement Manager

South African Department of Health (KZN)

Worked in high-pressure roles as a Medical Officer, General Practitioner for a full-service community clinic, Emergency Response Doctor, and Paramedic College Lecturer. Key skills: problem diagnosis, structuring; fast fact-gathering; rational under pressure; psychology of teams.

Medical Doctor and Lecturer

Four Key Points:

1️⃣ Global Roots

I was born in Germany into an American-Persian Baha’i family. Speaking three languages at once was the norm. I've lived in Europe, the USA, and Africa, and seen 25+ countries.

I studied IB at a United World College, whose mission is to be a “force to unite people, nations, and cultures for peace.”

The above compel an approach of questioning assumptions, listening deeply, and seeking robust, collaborative solutions.

2️⃣ Doctor First

After IB, I toured 16+ European countries for a year with a German-based dance group; my dream was to become a multi-media producer. I became a medical doctor instead.

Apart from medical know-how, this discipline drove me to understand: 

(1) Patterns, systems, and insights from large volumes of data quickly
(2) People’s psychology, motivations, and drives dramatically improve team delivery
(3) That ‘life-and-death’ (LAD) is serious, but rare; life is mostly not LAD, so take moments under pressure to think clearly

3️⃣ Top-Tier Consulting

I’ve spent two decades in top-tier consulting, with McKinsey, Spencer Stuart, and otherwise.

I’ve held Executive, Board, and Advisory roles where broad perspectives were essential. 

One example: advising the CEO/Exco of a Financial Institution with a $10bn asset base and 800 professionals. Over two years, this client's profits doubled, and its funding pipeline grew by 147% to $1bn+ per year.  

I’ve seen the outsized value of structured, fact-driven, analytical, and disciplined approaches to incremental and innovative projects, pipelines, and problems.

4️⃣ Problems I Help You Solve

(1) I’ve spent 20,000+ hours over two decades processing leadership learnings and questions, which I post regularly. Ring the bell on my profile to be notified of these.

(2) Join “The Impactful Executive,” newsletter, where we address the three pains CEO face weekly.

(3) I help Boards and 'G3' Executives (CEOs, CHROs, CFOs) unlock value through: 

* Analytical Thinking (value drivers, model building) & Strategic Clarity (high-impact decisions)
* Execution Discipline (incremental and innovation-focused program management and value-building)
* Top Team Sciences (Exco engagement, effectiveness, efficiency, and senior team dynamics) 
* Executive Talent & Soundboarding (executive search global best practice, leadership advisory)

(4) I can hold a few Board and Exco advisory roles globally (esp. high-tech, high-growth).

If you'd like help driving outsized impact, please reach out.

Dr Ali Monadjem

Liberty Group South Africa

Key Achievements: CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure
•	Drive strategic cloud and infrastructure managed services planning, business development, data governance, and fiscal operations to realise cost management and operational efficiency.
•	Transform the cloud and infrastructure function by adopting new ways of work and implement agile practices for streamlined information technology operations.
•	Spearheading the technology and innovation strategy.
•	Data owner for IT: Leading a team of Data Stewards, ensuring that appropriate steps are taken to protect data, promote data governance and for the implementation of policies, data forums setup, guidelines and maturity assessments of understanding that define the appropriate use of the data.

Overview:
•	Provide the overall strategy, vision, and direction for a sustainable global standard cloud & infrastructure division by continuously simplifying and automating processes to improve service delivery management and CTO services both internally and externally.
•	Manage and oversee the technical operations of the organisation, this includes but is not limited to driving the technology strategy, developing, and maintaining the infrastructure, cloud, evolving processes, and leading a team of technical experts. (Computing, storage, networks) in the Cloud and on premises’ Datacenters.

CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure

Key Achievements: Head of Plan & Build, IT Infrastructure
•	Co-ordinated and drove process improvements resulting in bottom line increase through the reduction of costs, client retention, infrastructure costs, support, and maintenance costs.

Overview:
•	Spearheaded IT infrastructure and related vendor relationships, leading a team of infrastructure professionals to ensure that the company's systems are secure, scalable, and available to meet the needs of the business. (platform stability, uptime, and security).
•	Oversaw the capital investment programme for implementation of innovative technologies across the computing, storage, networks, datacentre facilities and enterprise monitoring aligning to business strategy.

Head of Plan & Build, IT Infrastructure

Key Achievements: Head of End User Computing
•	Focused on supporting service delivery initiatives to increase productivity, streamlining existing processes and procedures to ensure SLA’s and SOPs are met.

Overview:
•	Oversaw and executed all technical requirements for development of the End User Computing requirements for the Liberty Group.
•	Delivered a tailored cost effective and reliable end user device solution and associated services conforming to the organizational strategic architectural roadmap / technology management.
•	Formulated, executed and co-ordinated IT technology solutions and support for the executive community nationally.

Head of End User Computing

Key Achievements: Build Master, Management of Automated Testing
•	Continually developed improvements on processes & procedures through needs analysis and identifying areas for improvement. 
•	Embed successful change projects, drive specific projects within the company.

Overview:
•	Build Master: Compiled code into binary and releasing of these to the various environments, ensuring continuous integration.
•	Created and managed the automated testing capability through script creation for new application development and managing the control library for regression testing using automated tools to ensure the software is functioning correctly before being released into production.

Build Master, Management of Automated Testing

Key Achievements: Supervisor, New Business Processing
•	Strong focus on work ethic, satisfaction, loyalty, and follow up; established a culture of communication, collaboration, & accountability.

Overview:
•	Managed the submission of new business cases in the sales process, ensuring the underwriting principles are adhered to.

Supervisor, New Business Processing

Key Achievements: Servicing
•	Ensured adherence to internal control policies and procedures for streamlined daily operations.
•	Ensured that customer satisfaction and retention levels remain high.

Overview:
•	Provided excellent service delivery management, by servicing customers on requests during the lifecycle of the policies.

Servicing

Contributing to organisational profitability, efficiency, and competitiveness through skilful alignment of technology and business imperatives is one of the many ways I have played an instrumental role in the success of my employers. As an innovative Senior Executive IT professional with 34+ years of combined experience in the financial services and insurance industries, I have expertise within IT operational management, cloud centre of excellence, asset management, IT infrastructure management, service delivery management, incident management & mitigation, quality assurance, systems administration, training & development, as well as managing stable and performant IT operations.

Throughout my career, I have demonstrated an exceptional skill set within team leadership, development, guidance, and continuous process improvement innovation to promote client retention, customer excellence and business success through proactively managing excellent service delivery initiatives, complaint resolution, incident management & mitigation, and administration. I am an extremely focused, competitive, driven and results-oriented individual. I have proven ability to provide senior leadership in establishing IT operational strategy, asset management, operational goals, and priorities for large and small enterprises. I have managed strategic partnerships such as AWS and MS.

My key strengths include IT operational strategy formulation, driving adherence to SLAs, infrastructure management, IT asset management, stakeholder management, communication, team management and leadership. Having successfully managed multiple large scale technology projects as well as built and led top performing teams, my expertise is extensive and highly unique. 

I have a proven record of providing leadership in the evaluation, selection and implementation of new information system technologies and have been extensively involved in full scale implementation of core IT projects. 

I’ve provided turnaround management and performance improvement services with regards to network, systems, and application support. I am passionate about my line of work and to keep on growing as an individual and building on my current skill set.

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