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Santam CIO steps down

Wednesday, 02 October 2013 00:00 Written by Nicola Mawson
Santam CIO Jan de Klerk has resigned, and will leave the company at the end of the year, the short-term insurance company has said.

Santam, a subsidiary of Sanlam, said the “process to fill his post is in progress and we will announce it in due course”.

De Klerk has served the Sanlam group for 14 years, having started his career at Sanlam, which owns 60% of Santam, where he held various roles, including that of GM of group IT. He joined Santam as CIO on 1 September 2008.

The insurer said “has played an instrumental role in running our IT systems and implementing our various IT strategic programmes”. He is leaving to “pursue interests outside of Santam”, it said.

According to his profile, de Klerk’s IT career, which spans 30 years, started at Sasol, where he qualified as a computer programmer/systems analyst. He held several specialist positions in the areas of data management, information engineering, strategic information systems planning and R/3 during his career at Sasol.

De Klerk practised as an enterprise architect for more than 10 years.