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Yolanda Smit

8th September 2017

     

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Full Name: Yolanda Smit

Position: Regional director for Gauteng at PBT Group

Main Activity of the Company: PBT Group is one of the leading business intelligence (BI), advanced analytics and information management specialist groups in South Africa and Africa

Date and Place of Birth: March 15, 1980, Pretoria

Education: MBA, University of Stellenbosch; BCom (Hons) (informatics), University of Pretoria; Bachelor of Information Systems, Bond University

First Job: Information technology (IT) manager at Quantro Home Loans

Career History Prior to Current Position: Besides Quantro Home Loans, I worked for Petros Business Solutions and Harvey Jones Systems before joining PBT Group in 2009 as senior BI business analyst. I served as strategic BI manager before assuming my current position

Size of First Pay Packet: R8 000 a month

First Job with Present Group: Senior BI business analyst

Value of Assets under Your Control: Not stated

Number of People under Your Leadership: 75

Management Style: Relational and visionary

Personal Best Achievement: Becoming a wife and a mother

Professional Best Achievement: Surviving the rigours of studying towards an MBA and being the principal consultant on a human resources analytics project for TFG, which won the company ITWeb’s BI Excellence Award in 2012

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: My husband

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: Professor Eltie Links, of the University of Stellenbosch

Person You Would Most Like to Meet: Emmanuel Bonoko, a young South African who is making waves on the leadership and entrepreneurship front

Businessperson Who Has Impressed You Most: The three generations of Smollans – Fred, Doug and David. They have built up a privately owned family business since 1931 and turned it into an international retail services organisation

Philosophy of Life: To live is a gift, not a right

Biggest Ever Opportunity: This opportunity knocked very recently, when PBT SA’s CEO entrusted me with the Gauteng regional leadership

Biggest Ever Disappointment: Not passing auditions for the school choir – I absolutely love to sing, but, these days, I confine my ‘talent’ to the shower and the car

Hope for the Future: A world where differences are celebrated and exploited for synergies

Favourite Reading: Tom Clancy novels

Favourite TV Programme: Scorpion

Favourite Food/Drink: Being in IT, I keep the coffee coming! On the food side, ek’s ’n boere meisie, so, a good Sunday lunch lamb roast or bobotie is always an inspiring affair

Favourite Music: I am relatively genre-agnostic

Favourite Sport: I cannot claim to be the sporty type

Favourite Website: www.datasciencecentral.com

Hobbies: Writing

Car: Volkswagen Jetta

Pets: A miniature Doberman cross dachshund

Miscellaneous Dislikes: Entitlement and traffic

Favourite Other South African Company: Discovery

Favourite Foreign Company: Tesla

Married: To Etienne Smit, since July 16, 2005

Children: A seven-year-old so

Clubs: None

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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