Group Executives

Bathobile Sowazi

Bathobile Sowazi

Group Executive: Governance and Legal

Born: 1972
Appointed: 1 July 2025
DBSA Company Secretary as from 1 May 2010
Academic qualifications:
• Transition to General Management Programme, INSEAD
• Project and Infrastructure Finance Programme, London Business School
• Advanced Banking Law, University of Johannesburg
• LLB, Rhodes University
• BA Law, University of Swaziland

Juan Strauss

Juan Strauss

Digital and Business Transformation

Born: 1978
Appointed: 1 March 2026
Academic qualifications
• MBA, Henley Business School, Reading University (UK)
• BSc (Information Technology) Honours in Computer Science, University of Johannesburg
• Executive Development Program, Business Administration and Management, Wharton Executive Education
• Management Advancement Programme, University of the Witwatersrand
• Certified SAFe Programme Consultant (SPC) 
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Certification 
• TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Certification