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Audrey Mothupi

Audrey Mothupi-Palmstierna

Board Member and Deputy Chair: Strategic Alliance and Advocacy Committee

CEO of Systemic Logic Group

Passionate about creating jobs and changing lives, Audrey Mothupi is the Chief Executive Officer of the South African based SystemicLogic Group – a global financial innovation, data, and technology company with a proven track record for delivering practical solutions to clients across a disparate range of industries and geographies. Audrey brings over 20 years of business experience.

With her extensive knowledge of African and global markets, Mothupi passionately champions the SystemicLogic business model to deliver solutions that are tailored to the needs of clients, specific to their respective operating environments.

Having worked in the public broadcaster, wealth insurance, banking, and now fintech, data and innovation sector, her experience spans across various business domains including group strategy, talent design, marketing and communications strategy as well as data, technology and innovation, integrated with strong corporate relationship management.

Prior to SystemicLogic, Mothupi served as the CEO of Group Strategic Services at Liberty Holdings and Head of Inclusive Banking at Standard Bank. She serves as an independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of Pick ‘n Pay, Life Healthcare Group and Altona Plc, and as the G100 Global Chair – AI/Data and Cybersecurity. She is a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI), a board member of the International Women’s Forum of South Africa (IWFSA), a member of the International Women’s Forum (IWF) and has
been named one of Africa’s 1,000 most powerful women.

Mothupi served as the Chair of the Board at Roedean School (SA) and the Chairperson of Orange Babies of South Africa. She also served as a board member of Nordic Female Business Angel Network and the Numeric Board of South Africa and as an independent Non-Executive Director on the board of Arden Capital.

Mothupi received her BA (Hons) in Political Science from Trent University and more recently added an education in artificial-intelligence machine learning through MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Mothupi is a proud mother of two, 24-year-old Melita and 19-year-old Zoya. She has keen interests in reading, hiking, traveling and cooking.

AWARDS
Chief Executive Officer, Systemiclogic Group
AUDREY
MOTHUPI

Tt100
Award: Emerging Entrepreneur
WINNER
Award For The Excellence in Management of Information 2013
Innovation Agency

Tt100
Small Enterprise
FINALIST
Award for the Excellence in Management of Information 2015
Innovation Agency

Tt100
Small Enterprise Minister Award for Sustainable Performance 2015
Innovation Agency

CIOREVIEW Magazine
CIO 20 Most Promising Enterprise Asset Management Solution Providers 2015
SystemicLogic Group

Tt100
SMALL ENTERPRISE WINNER
Award for Sustainability 2016
SystemicLogic Agency

Tt100
SMALL ENTERPRISE FINALIST
Award for Excellence in the Management of Systems 2016
SystemicLogic Agency

Tt100
FINALIST
Award for Excellence in the Management of Systems 2016
SystemicLogic Agency

Pan African Awards
Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government
COUNTRY WINNER
SADC South 2018/19
Audrey Mothupi

Pan African Awards
Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government
REGIONAL WINNER
SADC South 2018/19
Audrey Mothupi

Pan African Awards
Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government
CONTINENTAL WINNER
SADC South 2018/19
Audrey Mothupi

MIT Management Sloan School
The Executive Programme Artificial Intelligence: Implication for Business Strategy 2019
Audrey Mothupi

Standard Bank
Top Women
Top Gender Empowered
Company 2022
SystemicLogic Group

Female CEO of the Year Awards
Best Financial Innovation & Technology Disruptor CEO (South Africa) 2022
Audrey Mothupi