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Videsha is a corporate leader who stands at the forefront of the dynamic South African technology space. Prior to joining LexisNexis, she was the Data Centre Group Director for EMEA Territory and the GM for Intel. She was named the most influential Woman in Business and Government for ICT Africa. She was spotlighted by Forbes as a change maker in Africa. In 2017 Videsha was recognized as one of the 50 most inspiring women in South Africa by the Inspiring Fifty initiative. In 2019 Videsha was recognised as part of the ‘Africa 50’ - The 50 Leaders in Data Centers and Cloud, driving change in Africa.

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Nicola Comninos, CFA, is currently the Group CRO of the JSE. She chairs the JSE Pension Fund Board and CFA SA Society Risk, Governance & Audit Committee. She is the winner of the coveted IRMSA 2020 Risk Manager of the year and co-head of Women in ETFs South Africa chapter.

Nicola participates in various industry committees, including World Federation of Exchanges Risk Working Group, SARB Financial Sector Contingency Forum and IRMSA Risk Intelligence Committee.  With over 15 years’ experience in financial markets, her previous roles include MD of Nautilus Group, a Hedge Fund Platform, and head of various functions including Group Strategy, Sustainability, Equities and Equity Derivatives and Business Intelligence. Previous industry roles include Investment Consulting and Life Investment Product Development. Her qualifications include B.Com Honours and B.Com Investment Management degrees (both Cum Laude).

Nicola is passionate about mentorship, and sharing her knowledge and experience!

Practice Areas:

• Occupational Health and Safety

Biography:

The content for LexisNexis Practical Guide Occupational Health and Safety is written by Willem Le Roux, the Executive Consultant and Pieter Colyn, the Executive and Head of ENSafrica's Mine and Occupational Health and Safety (MOHS) Department. ENSafrica is the only law firm in Africa with a dedicated team of MOHS specialists, and the MOHS Department’s senior practitioners have more than 60 years of combined experience.

ENSafrica acts for a wide range of international mining houses and multinational corporates and advises them on compliance with MOHS law, including the South African Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA), the South African Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHASA) and legislation regarding compensation for work-related deaths, injuries and diseases. Pieter's expert knowledge has enabled him to be the leading lawyer in some of the mining industry's largest matters and he is also highly ranked by various reputable international ranking agencies.

Pieter has represented clients in the mining, construction/manufacturing and engineering industries, as well as in the ferrochrome, steel, vanadium and iron-making industries. He has personally appeared for a variety of companies, corporations and top executive and management personnel in accident investigations and inquiries, in particular, following major mine and occupational accidents and disasters in South Africa’s Westonaria, Rustenburg, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State and Northern Cape areas. He has also done appearances in criminal matters and inquests.

Pieter is the author of LexisNexis’ Occupational Health and Safety Law, a loose-leaf commentary on the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 with Willem. The team members of ENSafrica's MOHS Department are not just experts in the law, what sets them apart is their deep knowledge and understanding of mining and heavy industry, including complex technical issues such as rock engineering, geology, seismology, construction and general engineering. Their market-leading reputation has enabled them to appear in some of the industry's largest and foremost mine and occupational accidents and disasters.

Team members of ENSafrica's MOHS Department appear personally in informal investigations, formal inquiries and inquests. They also assist with criminal prosecutions and civil court proceedings, as far as such matters relate to MOHS law.

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Mabaeng Lenyai is the Vice President of the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) – the voluntary representative body of Attorneys in South Africa. Ms Lenyai is an attorney and director at Mabaeng Lenyai Inc in Pretoria. She holds the BProc and LLB degrees from the University of Limpopo and the University of KwaZulu-Natal respectively.

Lenyai was appointed as an acting judge at the Gauteng Division of the High Court (Superior), Pretoria. She was admitted as an attorney in 1998 and is a notary and conveyancer. She has been a council member of the LSSA since 2015 and the Chairperson of the Black Lawyers Association’s (BLA) Northwest branch for four years. Since 2018 she has been a member of the National Executive Council of the BLA, where she is the Secretary General.  Lenyai as part of her social commitment, is a council member of the Community Education Training Centre in Mmakau and a legal adviser on Motsweding FM.

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Jeremy Maggs is a media specialist with close on forty years’ experience in television, radio, and print. Until recently, he hosted television news channel eNCA’s weekday lunchtime news programme before stepping down in early-2021 to start his own media company Bold – a strategy and reputation management enterprise which is part of the independent Brave Group. Maggs is an accomplished public speaker, popular and witty MC, and conference facilitator.

He also runs a successful media training and coaching business with numerous blue-chip listed companies as clients.  He has just completed his second book, My Final Answer. Published by Pan McMillan, it is a memoir of his life and experience in the media

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With over 32 years-experience in the fields of Safety, Health and Environment including Risk, Compliance and Business, Bosman Stramrood is an expert in the fields of governance, risk and compliance. He started his career in the mining industry and is currently the General Manager: Lexis GRC, a division of LexisNexis South Africa. During his career he has served as local and international consultant for all industry types and trained thousands of people in Safety Management. He has also served as Risk Manager for two of South Africa's Mobile Telephone Networks and was a key contributor to the growth of a South African software company, specialising in custom SHEQ Management Solutions

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Ahmore is a director at Werksmans Advisory Services and the Head of the Data Protection & Privacy practice group. She extensively advises local and international clients on all aspects of regulatory compliance with specific focus on competition law and data privacy in various sectors. Ahmore advises clients throughout Africa and in particular the COMESA, CEMAC and WAEMU regions on a regular basis. She regularly undertakes compliance audits and oversees the implementation of compliance programmes and is the principle driver of the Werksmans risk assessment and e‑Learning tools as well as the co‑leader of the Werksmans Dawn Raid Team. Ahmore is a regular convenor, speaker and participant at local and international conferences and seminars on competition law and data privacy. Ahmore is a member of the International Association of Data Privacy Professionals and is currently reading towards her LLD (Data Protection). Ahmore is co-author of the textbook: A Commentary on the Protection of Personal Information Act, LexisNexis, 2018.

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Author and independent consultant: Terry Harrison is the only independent eDiscovery Consultant in South Africa and he advises law firms, corporations, and service providers. He is a regular speaker and writes an award-winning blog on the subject.  Previously Terry spent 25 years as a litigation fee earner in law firms in the UK before moving into litigation technology where he was MD of a UK litigation technology provider in London for 15 years. He was one of the founders of eDiscovery in the UK, organising and speaking at the first ever UK eDiscovery seminar in 2003. In 2014 Terry moved to Cape Town with his South African wife intending to retire. Terry has single handedly pressurised the Dept of Justice to incorporate eDiscovery into the Uniform Rules of Civil Procedure and the Rules Board have now established a Task Force to deal with this, a move supported by the South African Law Reform Commission which mentions Terry in its discussion paper on legal fees.

Biography:

With over 32 years-experience in the fields of Safety, Health and Environment including Risk, Compliance and Business, Bosman Stramrood is an expert in the fields of governance, risk and compliance. He started his career in the mining industry and is currently the General Manager: Lexis GRC, a division of LexisNexis South Africa. During his career he has served as local and international consultant for all industry types and trained thousands of people in Safety Management. He has also served as Risk Manager for two of South Africa's Mobile Telephone Networks and was a key contributor to the growth of a South African software company, specialising in custom SHEQ Management Solutions

Biography:

George Findlay is a seasoned attorney, who has experience in notary and conveyancing. After practicing law for 10 years, George joined LexisNexis where he has worked closely with conveyancing and banking software platforms, building an impressive client list along the way. Since 2011 George has been able to leverage his insights from his practising days and has helped grow the Lexis Sign customer base, where he has become the thought leader regarding digital signatures

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A lawyer by profession, Mike consults in the fields of labour, employment relations and change management. He is founder and author of Beaumont’s Service, a group of interrelated labour law products designed to provide solutions to everyday labour problems, published by LexisNexis.

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Biography:

Barry specialises in international arbitration and commercial litigation. He trained and practised at Jones Day before joining Pinsent Masons. At LexisNexis, Barry is Head of Arbitration and Head of the Lexis®PSL Dispute Resolution Group.

In practice, Barry’s work included commercial, aviation and technology arbitrations pursuant to international arbitral rules, involving UK and international clients. He also has a background in general commercial, civil fraud and IT litigation, including experience before the High Court. While in private practice, Barry worked with a broad range of clients from the private and public sectors.

At LexisNexis, when not focused on the strategic development and operational requirements of the Dispute Resolution Group, Barry’s content work focuses on the law and practice of international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. In addition to his work for Lexis®PSL, Barry contributes to the LexisNexis Dispute Resolution Blog and New Law Journal on litigation and arbitration matters

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Andrew Gilder is a Director of Climate Legal, with 17 years’ legal practice experience specialising in climate change (mitigation and adaptation), climate finance and development, carbon markets, carbon tax, environmental and energy law, policy and governance. Andrew is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng and Western Cape) and holds a BA LLB (University of Natal – now KwaZulu-Natal) and LLM (Marine and Environmental Law, University of Cape Town). He has practical experience which expands over a range of African jurisdictions and including advice to public and private sectors on the development and implementation of climate change, climate finance, carbon markets, carbon tax, environmental and energy law, policy and governance as well as regulatory and transactional advice to industries, foreign embassies and municipalities on the implementation of infrastructure development projects.

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Nonhlanhla has a career spanning over 20 years, working for some of the leading players in banking and broadcasting in South Africa and the rest of the African continent. During her career she acquired immense business, strategy development, stakeholder management and innovation skills. Most recently, she has been at the forefront of introducing corporate governance initiatives in the broadcasting industry, which have included the implementation of a contracts management forum and a legal compliance conference.

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Judge Kollapen is an acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from July 2017 and has served as a Judge of the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria, since 2011. He is also the Chairperson of the South African Law Reform Commission. Justice Kollapen has previously served as a lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. Moreover, he has served on the board of many civil society organisations, including the Legal Resources Centre, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, IDASA, and the London based Article 19. For LexisNexis Judge Kollapen represents a breed of great legal minds who see technology as an enabler to advancing the Rule of Law.

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Natasha Kistan is a Governance Risk and Compliance Consultant with LexisNexis South Africa.

She is responsible for advising and implementing LexisNexis bespoke GRC systems for clients and providing training as well as ongoing support.

Natasha has 16 years of experience in the financial services industry, holding various management and senior management positions.

Over the latter part of her career she has worked and gained knowledge and skill with respect to compliance risk analysis and risk management.

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With close to 30 years of experience, Mellony is an innovative leader who has managed teams across Africa. She holds a Masters in Business Administration (endorsed by Oxford University), an Industrial and Organisational Psychology Qualification, as well as various qualifications from the IMM for Marketing Management and the Wits Business School Management Advanced Programme.