Yuvenna Pillay

Yuvenna Pillay is a Strategic Program Consultant at PayInc (formerly BankservAfrica), leading the cloud migration of South Africa's national payment infrastructure , migrating 100+ critical workloads to AWS with zero downtime and earning the company-wide CEO Award.
She holds an Executive MBA from Henley Business School, is a Non-Executive Director at Leroy Merlin South Africa (Adeo Group), and holds an Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching certification. With over two decades of IT experience, she has held C-Level leadership positions at Tiger Brands, Nedbank, and Investec. At Tiger Brands, she architected and led the 'Digital Xpress Lane', governing 12 strategic initiatives. At Nedbank, she directed a 2,500-person Agile transformation, improving time-to-market by 25%.

Yuvenna Pillay led PayInc’s Cloud Migration Program, moving 100+ critical workloads to AWS 8 months early with zero downtime, modernizing a 150TB data warehouse to a 20.6TB data lake, and improving infrastructure efficiency by 40%. At Tiger Brands, she drove Digital Xpress Lane, a 5-year R100M Order Management overhaul, and a R120M cybersecurity portfolio. At Nedbank, she directed a 2,500-person Agile transformation, cutting time-to-market by 25%.

Yuvenna Pillay believes transformation succeeds or fails at the human level. She governs multi-million-rand portfolios across digital, cloud, and cybersecurity, bringing together people, technology, and execution. A Non-Executive Director and C-suite advisor, she builds frameworks, earns trust, and ensures change is real.