Alex Darko

Non-Executive Director at The Aurum Institute

Mr Alex Darko is a director at Nkululeko Leadership Consulting – a consulting firm specialising in organisational culture, leadership, change management and strategy.

As a management consultant, he has assisted several organisations and leaders (public and private) to develop and implement strategies, improve leadership and organisational effectiveness, manage change and transform their organisational cultures. He mentors leaders and teams, both locally and internationally.

Mr Darko has over 30 years’ global multi-industry experience in Europe, the USA and Africa. He held a number of senior management positions at Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (while based in the UK), including Director of UK Shared Services, Director of Finance – Dun & Bradstreet Europe Limited and Head of European Accounting Re-engineering. At Dun & Bradstreet, Alex established high-performance teams and led significant organisational change initiatives in the UK and Europe which resulted in significant cost savings and major improvement in service levels. He was the CIO of AngloGold Ashanti and chairs the IT committee at Absa Group and is a member of the Audit and Compliance and the Directors Affairs (Nominations) Committees.

Mr Darko is also a non-executive director of Reunert and Chairman of Senscare and previously served on the Boards of Business Connexion, Consolidated Infrastructure Group and The Mazor Group.