Jaco Snyman

Jaco is a recognised and experienced specialist in various areas related to corporate governance. He obtained BA (Law) and LLB degrees from the University of the North-West (as it is now known) by 1992 and qualified as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 1995. He subsequently obtained two master’s degrees (MBA and LLM) as part of his formal qualifications.

After practising law at some of the corporate legal firms in Sandton, Jaco joined Absa Bank where he initially acted as the head of a legal department but then joined Absa Corporate Finance. Following that he joined the office of the Group CFO where he assisted with the management of the group investment committee of the group. He also proved very successful in projects such as the implementation of a governance system for the management of subsidiaries in Africa. He left Absa in 2007 to join PPC. Jaco has extensive experience as the Group Company secretary of a dual listed company and this is supported by his experience in corporate and commercial law, corporate governance, and risk and compliance management at executive level.