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Brief Biography
Yuvenna Pillay is a transformation leader who has spent two decades navigating complexity at the intersection of technology, people, and strategy. As Strategic Program Consultant at PayInc ,she operates at national scale, where the systems she modernises underpin how an entire industry moves money. As Project Director at Tiger Brands and a senior IT leader at Nedbank and Investec, she has led transformation across payments, FMCG, banking, and retail, each industry demanding a different kind of leadership. She holds an Executive MBA from Henley Business School (Merit), serves as Non-Executive Director at Leroy Merlin South Africa (Adeo Group), and is an accredited Organizational Relationship Systems Coach.
Achievements
Yuvenna Pillay delivers transformation at national scale. She led PayInc's cloud migration of South Africa's payment infrastructure, migrating 100+ workloads to AWS with zero downtime, 8 months early, earning the CEO Award. At Tiger Brands, she pioneered the Digital Xpress Lane across 12 digital initiatives and directed a R120M cybersecurity portfolio delivered two years early. At Nedbank, she influenced Agile ways of working for 2,500 people in the card payments and transactional area, cutting time-to-market by 25%.
Competencies
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.
