Technology

Change agent

How to get things done? For Sandra la Bella, it’s about change management. That, and holding the line.

04 August 2017

Sandra la Bella likes ‘big, chunky programmes’, and as head of transformation and adoption at Absa, there are plenty of those. I remark on her last name – ‘the beautiful’ – and she jokes she only married her Italian husband for his surname.

She’s spent 12 years at Absa, and in her current role is responsible for, among other things, rolling out cloud within the bank’s infrastructure. Before the bank, she was IT manager at Nabisco, and three years into her tenure there, Kraft Foods bought the business. And so it was with a strong sense of déjà vu that she experienced the Barclays buyout. “For me it was, ‘here we go again’,” she says.

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