Richard Wainwright is the chief executive officer of Investec Bank Limited and currently the Chairman of the Banking Association of South Africa (BASA).<\/p>\n
Wainwright has served as CEO of Investec Bank Limited since February 2016. His role, he says,<\/span> focuses on building Investec\u2019s core businesses and delivering the right outcomes for the group\u2019s clients and<\/span> stakeholders. Leadership and talent development is high on his list of priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n He has served the Investec Group for more than 25 years in various roles, including head of Investec Corporate and Institutional Banking, and head of Financial Products, among others.<\/p>\n Wainwright<\/span> is a chartered accountant, having studied at the University of Cape Town.<\/p>\n In this episode of Business Talk with Michael Avery, he <\/span>says the opportunity that the Covid-19 pandemic has provided is the investment that has gone into technology in South Africa<\/p>\n He says that the challenge for the country is how we use this technology to leapfrog service delivery to the masses.<\/p>\n Wainwright a big proponent of education and technology, saying that the private sector will need to engage closely with the government to scale technological development into the public sector – whether it is healthcare or education.<\/p>\n He talks Michael through the pros and challenges of working from home versus being in the office – touching on the fibre space in the country, following Investec\u2019s<\/span> recent financial commitment towards telecommunications and ICT specialist Vox, to allow it to ramp up its deployment of fibre broadband infrastructure in South Africa.<\/p>\n The full interview is embedded below. You can find all the Business Talk with Michael Avery interviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n