Ms. Skwambane is WPP’s Country Manager for South Africa and Chief Strategy Officer at Smollan. She has extensive board experience and is currently a non-executive director at Sphere Holdings and African Parks Network. Ms. Skwambane has more than 20 years’ experience as a strategy and management consultant serving major clients in the public and private sectors across the Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. She started her career at Bain & Company and founded North Road Consulting, before moving into global partner roles at Monitor Consulting and McKinsey & Company. Ms. Skwambane has also worked at International Finance Corporation, World Bank in Washington D.C. and Brown Brothers Harriman and Company in Boston and completed her MBA at Harvard Business School and her BA at Dartmouth College. She has been an African Leadership Institute and Aspen Global Leadership Fellow and was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2011.