| Organization: Africa-China Trade |
| Designation: Head |
Luthando is a Financial Services professional who heads up Africa-China Trade in Personal and Business Banking, for the Standard Bank Group. China is a key market and relationship for Africa and Standard Bank through its relationship with ICBC, is able to optimally leverage this Trade and Business corridor. Prior to this, he was heading up Distribution, which is all channels of Retail and Business Banking in the Johannesburg CBD area. This is inclusive of Digital channel, local treasury management, Automated Teller Machines and the Branch Network. Prior to this, he headed up the Private Banking business for Standard Bank South Africa, a segment which looks after High Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs) in terms acquiring, preserving and growing their wealth. Equipped with a MBA from ALU School of Business, Luthando's experience spans financial services, drawing up funding models for mini-bux taxi industry, spatial planning, transport planning, urban management tools and analyses, stakeholder management and international leadership, youth development, facilitating and thought leadership. He is a skilled strategist in translating policies into implementation plans and a good driver of innovation within policy and strategy. Luthando previously worked in the public sector as a policy and strategy specialist, specifically in intergovernmental relations with other Provincial departments, National government, State Owned Entities and Local municipalities in the Western Cape. His focus was mainly compensation and funding models for transport operation services, transport and infrastructure, managing the coordination and leading of intergovernmental planning. He is also an Entrepreneur and the co-founder of Perpetu8, which is a SMME implementation consultancy, leveraging freelancers and Exponential Growth principles to grow and scale small business. He is a Mandela Washington Fellow 2015, a leadership programme developed by President Barack Obama and the United States State Department, as part of Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative, launched in 2013. In July 2016, Luthando was invited by the United States White House to be a speaker at the inaugural White House Summit on Global Development hosted by President Obama to discuss global development.