Michael Davies is passionate about providing effective risk, resilience and recovery solutions for organisations. During the last two decades in the Risk, Resilience & Business Continuity Industry, Michael has assisted companies across different industries in planning for and handling disruptions.

Michael has also had the privilege to speak about Risk, Resilience and Business Continuity Management (BCM) at various conferences in Africa and has been the author of many articles on leading edge concepts on the topic.

Michael was CEO of the leading BCM service provider in Africa, and left the company in March 2021, after 18 years with the company. Whilst at the helm of the company it won numerous prestigious awards including being inducted into the Global Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Hall of Fame after winning the Continuity and Resilience Provider award for Africa for 3 consecutive years. Michael’s current focus is to help organisations integrate strategy, risk and resilience to remain effective and sustainable in times of great uncertainty and accelerating
change.

Rianné is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and Compliance Professional (SA). During
her 27-year career in banking she filled various senior management roles in
business, finance, risk management, internal audit and compliance.
She ran her own compliance consulting firm for 8 years before being appointed
as the CEO of the Compliance Institute Southern Africa in July 2018. She is also
the Chair of the International Federation of Compliance Associations (IFCA).
She is passionate about compliance and ensuring that the compliance
profession is positioned as a strategic business partner, an independent
assurance provider and what it means to be the ‘C’ in GRC.
She became a Chartered Accountant at the age of 41 and lives by her personal motto ‘It is never too late to have a happy childhood (or a new career).