Riaan van Wamelen is the CIO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). He has been with the organisation for nine years. “Quite a stint,” he says, “but the ongoing evolution has kept me entertained.”

Van Wamelen embarked on his career after completing a B.Com with majors in accounting and information systems at the University of Pretoria. He initially worked in software development, but after a few years, he realised he wanted to ‘move into understanding the business context behind the technical solutions’.