Brendan Du Preez Senior Vice President, Global Head Trade Product Management, Global Transaction Banking, Mashreq Bank Brendan du Preez’s career spans more than 20 years across various roles within operations, sales, risk management and product management. He started his career as senior business accountant at Clover South Africa and then progressed to ABSA Corporate Bank South Africa where he had the responsibility of running the Transaction Management Unit for Structured Trade and Commodity Finance. Brendan moved to Barclays where he was accountable for the setup, implementation and integration of a Transaction Management Unit to support the Corporate Finance business across Africa. Following his Barclays stint, Brendan joined Standard Chartered Bank as Head of Transaction Management Unit Africa with accountability to establish a team and system to support business expansion across Africa. Following this role, Brendan had held various other senior roles within Standard Chartered Bank, most notably, Head Operations South Africa, Structured Trade Product Management Head for Africa, Global Product Management Head, based in Singapore, with a specific focus on strategic open account and documentary trade growth products and Southern Africa Head of Product Management. He was the Product Head for Structured Trade and Commodity Finance at Barclays Africa Group. Before joining Mashreq, as SVP Global Head of Trade Product Management, Brendan was the Head Trade and Working Capital Finance Core Markets at Standard Bank. Prior to this role, Brendan was the Group Head of Open Account, Supply Chain and Working Capital Finance at Standard Bank Group with accountability for strategic direction and growth of the business across the Standard Bank Group. He holds a B.Com Accounting Degree from the University of Potchefstroom South Africa. He has published and contributed to trade related articles in trade industry publications. He has also been both a panellist and speaker at key trade industry conferences. He has represented Standard Bank at the Global Wolfsberg / ICC Working Group on Anti-Money Laundering in Trade Finance, ICC Global Supply Chain Finance Forum and BAFT African Council.