Funeka Montjane

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Funeka Montjane is a non-executive director on the board of Standard Bank Offshore Group Limited and a member of the Mastercard Advisory Board. She leads Personal and Private Banking at Standard Bank Group as its chief executive officer, overseeing a segment that serves individual customers across income levels with financial products and life journey solutions. Before taking that group role, she held several senior positions within Standard Bank and earlier worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she became a partner in 2005.

Montjane studied accounting at Wits University, earning BCom and honours degrees, and later completed a Master of Commerce at the University of Johannesburg. A qualified Chartered Accountant, she also completed Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. Her board responsibilities include the Audit and Credit committees. Her honours include the 2024 AWCA Woman of Substance Award and SAICA Chairman’s Business Trailblazer Award; she was also named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2015.