Tshifhiwa Ramuthaga has come a long way from her hometown of Matangari where her education started at the age of four in a mud school. It was a car that inspired her to pursue IT: she noticed that her brother’s friend drove a Jetta, and wanted to know what he had studied for him to be able to drive such a fancy car.

Now with her Master’s degree in IT from the University of Pretoria and an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), she is the CIO at the Financial Services Board (FSB).