Gugu Sepamla is the Group Executive for Corporate Affairs Executive & Governance, Barloworld Limited. Previously, she was a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Gugu was also Managing Director for Public Policy and Strategy at Barclays Africa. Previously she headed up Strategy & Emerging Markets at Ernst & Young and was a Member of Executive Committee at EY Africa. She was also previously Group Corporate Affairs Director at the Public Investment Corporation, (PIC).
South African born Gugu Sepamla was recently selected by Forbes onto its list of ‘Top 10 most Powerful and Influential Women in Africa’. She was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a community of less than a 1000 across the globe who are viewed as leaders helping play a role in positively impacting the world across sectors (business, government and the not for profit sectors. Gugu Sepamla is a strategy and performance turnaround expert with vast experience across a broad range of industries, having served the top management of leading institutions. As a Senior Advisor at BCG, Gugu helps guide the company’s direction, growth, innovation as well as being instrumental in people development, in addition to lending her considerable talents and expertise to providing clients with solutions that help them to achieve their business goals.
Gugu carries over 20 years of related work experience in the professional services industry. She has a solid technical background with a strong interest in Business process Re-engineering, Strategy, Operating Models, and Planning. Gugu has strong networks both locally and across the Continent having worked and lived in Nigeria and Kenya.
She is a respected industry leader and dedicated mentor who is actively involved in various trusts, charities and is a champion for women’s empowerment in South Africa. Among her many notable achievements, is that she has worked with a government task team of a BRICS country to design the operating model for a proposed national pension system, leveraging existing institutional capacities in the public as well as the private sector.