Anushka Soma-Patel

Identity Stream Lead for the SAFBC (South African Financial Blockchain Consortium) and Business Specialist: Innovation and Culture within Old Mutual

Anushka’s core purpose of ‘fairness and equality’ together with her respect for people provide a strong foundation for her to collaborate effectively. Her recent role in innovation allows her to actively understand how blockchain as a revolutionary technology will allow the world to bring about positive changes that benefit customers and societies. Her experience in IT and Lean combined with her MBA qualification enables her to analyse this new technology ecosystem in the context of the world as we know it today and with the curiosity and open-mindedness of the world that is being and can be enabled by blockchain technology. Her core purpose in life fuels the passion and energy with which Anushka drives initiatives within Old Mutual and the SAFBC.