Meet our founder.
Buwang Mokuele
He has held senior leadership roles in two established South African financial institutions. As Head of Capital and Impairments Modelling at African Bank, he was accountable for the group’s IFRS 9 expected credit loss models, fair value models and Basel-track economic capital models, reporting into the Model Risk, Credit Models, Executive and Board committees. As Head of Africa Regions Scorecard Development at Standard Bank South Africa, he led behavioural and application scorecard work across fourteen African markets and the full retail and business product range. He has engaged directly with the Prudential Authority and external auditors at the level of formal model approval and challenge.
His foundations are academic. Buwang holds a Master’s degree in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Pretoria. He completed the degree with distinction and was awarded the Statomet prize for the best academic achievement in the programme. He received honorary academic colours from the University and a recommendation for exemption from six of the Actuarial Society of South Africa’s core technical examinations. Alongside his graduate studies and early career, he spent five years as an Assistant Lecturer in UP’s Department of Statistics. That work still shapes how he communicates technical material to non-technical audiences.
- MSc Mathematical Statistics (with distinction), University of Pretoria
- BSc (Hons) Mathematical Statistics (with distinction), University of Pretoria
- BSc Actuarial and Financial Mathematics, University of Pretoria
- Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM®), GARP
- Technical Member, Actuarial Society of South Africa
- Member, Golden Key International Honour Society
