Momentum Metropolitan appoints Dhesen Ramsamy as Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) to drive digital transformation
Momentum Metropolitan Holdings has appointed Dhesen Ramsamy as Group Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO), effective 1 April 2022. He makes the move from his current role as Executive Head of the Group’s client digital hub Momentum iX, and will take over from Chief Technology Officer Chris Kruger who will retire later in the year.
Ramsamy holds various leadership and management qualifications, including an executive program in finance from The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), MBA (cum laude) from the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Natal.
He brings nearly 20 years of extensive experience to the role. He has been with Momentum Metropolitan since 2018 and previously worked in large financial services, retail and consumer goods industries, with a strong track record in leading large teams through business model revisions, digitisation and customer-led redesign.
His areas of expertise focus primarily on business transformation, digital channel design, build and commercialisation, client insights and business strategy.
“Digital transformation is critical to the Reinvent and Grow strategy we launched last year, and features strongly in all our business plans. It will help us to stay competitive, and is likely to become even more important as the interaction preferences of our clients and our advisers continue to evolve,” says Hillie Meyer, Group Chief Executive Officer at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings. “The appointment of a Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) will help the Group to master the digital challenge.”
The CDIO role will incorporate all the responsibilities currently vested in the Chief Technology Officer role and current CTO Chris Kruger will hand these over in the next six months.
Responsibilities of the new CDIO role include: enabling the implementation of a robust, innovative and cohesive digital and IT strategy to support the Group’s business strategy, oversight of IT operations and ensuring sound IT governance, and delivering IT and digital functions for the Group – including FinTech investments and initiatives.
“I am energised by the opportunity to reimagine and reinvent solutions for our clients,and I look forward to collaborating with people at all levels of the organisation to continue to strengthen Momentum Metropolitan Holdings’ digitalisation strategy,” says Ramsamy.
Meyer says: “I look forward to working with Dhesen on this exciting challenge, and to seeing the strengthening of our ‘Digital Movement’ as a Group.”