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Jacques Barkhuizen is an experienced technology executive currently serving as the Group Chief Information Officer at Airtel Africa since April 2023 and a Non-Executive Director at Smartcash PSB since October 2023. Previously, Jacques held the role of CIO South Africa at Vodacom from October 2019 to April 2023, and before that, served as CIO for Digital and Virtual Channels at Absa Group and Chief Information Officer for Distribution & Digital at Barclays. Additional experience includes their tenure as Chief Information Officer - Africa at Deloitte South Africa, Group Chief Technology Officer at Investec, and Chief Technology Officer at Woolworths. Jacques' educational background includes participation in the Annual CTO Round Table at Stanford University and various training in infrastructure and Microsoft technologies.