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Johan Opperman

Contact Details

Current Employer: Ristco PTY LTD
City: Centurion
Province / State / Region: N/A
Country: South Africa

Teaching Experience (Years)

25+

Professional Experience (Years)

30+

Profile Summary

Johan Opperman is a Risk, Governance and Management Consultant with more than 30 years’ experience in various senior roles optimising the correlation between strategy, governance, risk and performance – with emphasis on value add and opportunity optimisation to meet competitive objectives.  He holds amongst others a Master of Business Leadership Degree, is - an IODSA Certified Director (Corporate Governance); - PECB Certified Trainer - PECB Certified ISO 31000 Senior Lead Risk Manager (Risk); - PECB Certified ISO 27001 Lead Auditor (Information Security); - PECB Certified ISO 38500 Lead Manager (IT Corporate Governance); - PECB Certified Lead ISO 22301 Implementer (BCM); - PECB Certified ISO 37301 Lead Implementer and a Lead Auditor (Compliance Management Systems).  He coordinated technological security matters in the South African state environment, presented to the provincial cabinets and administrations, chaired the global Billiton Information Security Forum and was part of the leadership team when the Absa Group obtained the first Basel II Operational Risk Advanced Measurement Approach status in Africa. He was responsible for the Absa Group / Barclays Africa Group operational risk oversight, its mergers and acquisition risk matters, the owner of the new product and service approval and product review processes. As CEO of Ristco (Pty) Ltd he was responsible for the design and implementation of governance frameworks, as well as enterprise risk (inclusive of IT / Information Security / Compliance) and (IT) governance management frameworks. Johan places a lot of emphasis on opportunity taking associated with risk management and strategy in support of well a considered organisational purpose and objectives. Effective change management and transformation therefore have been a constant in his career with experience in the state, mining, manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services and energy sectors. Johan contributes to international standards development. He is the National Chairperson of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) mirror committees on Risk (TC 262), and member of the governance of organisdations (TC 309), Information Security and IT Corporate Governance (TC 1 SC27 and SC 40) technical commttees (TCs). He serves as the liason amongst the mentioned committees as well as the technical committee addressing quality (TC 176). In addition, Johan is the National Secretary for the ISO 37301 Compliance Workgroup. He formally takes part in the international consultations for risk, governance and compliance standards. He provided risk, governance and IT governance training to Boards of Directors and Executive management as well as open and certification courses in a number of countries. He is a proponent of integrated thinking and context consideration. He is therefore well positioned to augment theory with practical examples.  

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