Simon Russell is Managing Executive of Accenture's South African Financial Services practice comprising of Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets.
His primary area of focus in Banking specifically, is helping banks transform to become industrialised – differentiated on the outside and simplified on the inside.
Russell joined Accenture in 1990. Prior to that, he worked briefly as a design engineer for Volkswagen South Africa.
He was born in London in 1965 and moved to Namibia before settling in Cape Town. Russell completed his matric in 1983 at Grey High School in Port Elizabeth. In 1988 he completed a BSc. honours degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Cape Town. He has keen interest in economics and went on to obtain a commerce degree from Unisa in 1991.
Russell has a diversity of interests. He enjoys running, scuba diving, windsurfing, flying and sailing boats competitively. He also finds pleasure in listening to classical music and reading history books and spending time with his family.
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