Phuthuma Nhleko to headline Boardroom Governance Summit 2026

Today, as Chairman of the JSE since 2022, he presides over Africa’s largest stock exchange and stands as a guardian of trust in the continent’s capital markets. He founded the Pembani Group in 1994, at the dawn of South Africa’s democracy, and built it into an industrial holding company with interests in oil and gas, minerals, metals, and infrastructure across Africa. In 2012, he established the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to invest in the infrastructure the continent needs to grow. His boardroom journey has taken him through BP plc, Anglo American, and Tullow Oil plc, and he serves today on the board of IHS Towers. An engineer by training and a graduate of The Ohio State University, he unites technical rigour, financial mastery, and bold strategic vision in a way few leaders on any continent can match.