Board of Directors

Date of first appointment
November 2022

Qualifications
BSc (Honours) in Economics (UK), Fellow Chartered Accountant (UK), honorary ‘Commissaire aux comptes’ (France) and Wharton School Executive Development Program (USA)

Responsibilities
Non-Executive Director since November 2022 and Chairperson as from November 2024. Jay is a member of the Corporate Strategy Committee and Remuneration, Corporate Governance, Ethics & Sustainability Committee. He also chairs the Group’s Corporate Sustainability Committee (a sub-committee of the Remuneration, Corporate Governance, Ethics & Sustainability Committee).

Skills and Experience
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in London, Jay joined KPMG France where he spent 38 years. He gained significant boardroom experience in his role as Client Partner of several international French companies and as Chief Executive Officer of KPMG France and Member of the KPMG Global Board. His responsibilities extended to French speaking sub-Saharan African countries, Maghreb countries and Mauritius. He founded the Deal Advisory and Consulting practices of KPMG France in 1995 and 2000 respectively. He also set up a Tax and Legal practice in 2020. His main area of expertise and of interest are Deal Advisory, Audit and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance). As an independent advisor since 2021, Jay assists chief executives of selected companies in taking strategic decisions or in solving governance issues.

Directorship(s) in other listed companies
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Date of first appointment
November 2019

Qualifications
LLB, MSc in Economics and Chartered Management Accountant (UK). 

Responsibilities
Non-Executive Director since November 2019. Constantine is a member of the Risk Monitoring Committee.

Skills and Experience
In a career spanning over 19 years with the World Bank Group, Constantine has held various operational, strategy and In a career spanning over 19 years with the World Bank Group, Constantine has held various operational, strategy and management roles, delivering development solutions for the bank’s client countries through analytical work and high level policy dialogue with governments while advising the board on internal corporate strategy and forward-looking initiatives. He oversaw a threefold growth of the World Bank’s investment portfolio in South East Asia and a forty percent improvement in its performance as Chairperson of committees that shaped the bank’s operational strategy and investment portfolios in Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. Constantine led the opening of the World Bank Office in Mauritius where he assisted the Government in developing policy responses to the 2008 global financial crisis and streamlining the country’s business regulation to reduce the cost of regulatory compliance. Prior to joining the World Bank, Constantine worked as Business Development Executive for a global mining company and as Company Secretary for a conglomerate listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Directorship(s) in other listed companies
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Date of first appointment
September 2024

Qualifications
BSc (Honours) in Computer Science and Fellow Chartered Accountant (UK)

Responsibilities
Executive Director since September 2024, Dipak sits on the Risk Monitoring Committee as well as the Corporate Strategy and Supervisory & Monitoring Committees, on which he acts as Secretary.

Skills and Experience
Dipak joined MCB as Group Chief Finance Officer in September 2024. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC in London and later moved to PwC Singapore to join its Banking Division. He then shifted to the banking industry and over nearly two decades, developed a career with Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays, Emirates NBD and Deutsche Bank, holding senior Group, Regional and Country roles in Corporate Banking, Global Markets, Strategy, M&A, Risk and Finance mainly in London, Dubai, Singapore and Frankfurt, largely focused on growing emerging markets businesses. He joined Ireland Blyth Limited in January 2015 as Executive Director and Group Chief Finance Officer and after the latter’s amalgamation into IBL Ltd, was appointed Group Chief Finance Officer of IBL Ltd in July 2016. He is an experienced board member and has been the Chairman of several companies in the financial services sector, including the Stock Exchange of Mauritius, as well as in industry. He currently sits on the Council of ICAEW in London. Effective 27 September 2024, he has been appointed as Executive Director of MCB Group Ltd. 

Directorship(s) in other listed companies
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Date of first appointment
December 2020

Qualifications
MA in Mathematics and Statistics (Scotland)

Responsibilities
Non-Executive Director since December 2020. Stephen is a member of the Audit Committee and Remuneration, Corporate Governance, Ethics & Sustainability Committee.

Skills and Experience
Stephen pursued an executive career in investment banking and in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector in the UK and in the USA. He held investment banking roles in Rothschild & Co, Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan) and WestLB Panmure, a British corporate and institutional investment bank. He was the Chief Financial Officer before being appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Telewest plc, a cable and broadband internet, telephone carrier and cable television provider, listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). He has had an extensive and rich non-executive career over the last 20 years, sitting on 23 Boards, of which 16 were listed companies, including 2 FTSE 100 listed companies and he held multiple chairmanships of nomination and remuneration, audit and corporate governance committees thereon. He is currently the Chairperson of Calnex Solutions plc, a UK-based company, which designs, produces and markets test and measurement instrumentation and solutions for the telecoms and cloud computing industries.  He recently retired from PRS for Music Ltd and Datatec Ltd (listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange), which he chaired for over 9 and 15 years respectively.

Directorship(s) in other listed companies
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Date of first appointment
June 2023

QualificationsPhD in Computer Science (USA)

ResponsibilitiesNon-Executive Director since June 2023. Cedric is a member of the Strategy Committee. Cédric is a member of the Corporate Strategy Committee. He is also the Chairperson of the Group’s Technology & Innovation Committee (a sub-committee of the Corporate Strategy Committee).

Skills and Experience

Skills and Experience
Cédric is the co-founder and CEO of Be Mobile Africa, a neobank which focuses on the unbanked and underbanked in Africa. The company covers over 30 markets and 22 currencies. It is known for operating one of the largest blockchain-based payment systems as well as having one of the most competitive savings accounts. Be Mobile Africa became a Harvard Business School Case Study and its story is also taught to the MBA class at MIT Sloan School of Management.  He is also the co-founder of Be Financial Group, a Hong Kong based investment holding firm focused on emerging markets, and was a ‘Growth Coach’ at one of Canada’s largest tech incubators, Communitech, where he mentored start-up founders for several years. 

Prior to founding Be Financial Group, he was the co-founder and CEO of APrivacy, an award-winning FinTech digital security company, which provided encryption and privacy software to the banking industry. The company's revolutionary technology enabled banks to use consumer apps like Dropbox, WhatsApp and WeChat for banking purposes, while having all the security and compliance required by the financial industry.  He was named as one of 16 Most Promising Entrepreneurs in Asia-Pacific by Ernst and Young and served as a Canadian delegate to the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit for several years. Cédric is a frequent speaker at digital conferences worldwide on the topics of FinTech, trade, digital security, crypto, impact investing and poverty alleviation and has been quoted in a number of global press publications.

Date of first appointment
November 2024

Qualifications
BSc Actuarial Science (London School of Economics), Fellow (Institute and Faculty of Actuaries)

Responsibilities
Non-Executive Director since November 2024.

Skills and Experience
Yvan Legris is an experienced non-executive director, serving on the boards of public and private companies as well as non-profit organisations. He is currently a director on the board of Medine Group and a board member of Médecins Sans Frontières International, having previously served as its international treasurer for 6 years.

In his executive career, Yvan has held leadership positions in actuarial and employee benefits consulting firms in Mauritius, the UK and the USA. He has experience in risk management, executive rewards, actuarial evaluations, strategy and leadership of global teams.

He founded the Mauritius office of Aon in Mauritius. He subsequently served as President of Consulting at Hewitt Associates (USA) and Global CEO of Consulting at Aon (an S&P 500 corporation quoted on the NYSE) where he was a member of their executive committee for several years.

Directorship(s) in other listed companies
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Date of first appointment
November 2018

Qualifications
BSc (Honours) in Accounting and Financial Analysis and Chartered Accountant (UK)

Responsibilities
Non-Executive Director since November 2018. Michael is a member of the Strategy Committee

Skills and Experience
Michael has a long experience in the retail industry. He currently heads the Lising Group and occupies the position of Managing Director. Prior to joining the Lising Group, Michael has worked for Ernst & Young (UK) and De Chazal Du Mée & Co. (Mauritius) where he was responsible for various consultancy projects and conducted assignments for the World Bank in Rwanda, Tanzania, Madagascar and Burkina Faso. He previously sat on the Council of the University of Mauritius and was a member of the Executive Committee of Young Presidents Organisation. He is also a Director of MCB Factors Ltd, a subsidiary of MCB Group Ltd.

Directorship(s) in other listed companies
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Date of first appointment
November 2023

Qualifications
MBL cum laude (South Africa), BCom (South Africa), BA Fine Arts (India) and IMD Program for Executive Development (Switzerland)

Responsibilities
Non-executive director since November 2023. Maya is a member of the Corporate Strategy Committee and Remuneration, Corporate Governance, Ethics & Sustainability Committee. Moreover, she is a member of the Group’s Corporate Sustainability Committee (a sub-committee of the Remuneration, Corporate Governance, Ethics & Sustainability Committee).

Skills and Experience
Maya is a seasoned non-executive director, serving on the boards of public and private companies as well as non-profit organisations. She currently chairs the Board of Datatec Limited, and is a director on the Boards of Mpact Limited, Cell C Limited, the AIG South Africa Group and the Nelson Mandela Foundation. In her executive career, Maya has held leadership positions in the telecommunications, financial services, consulting, and fast-moving consumer goods industries. She has held directorships in companies engaged in the field of human resources, marketing communication, corporate affairs and reputation management, strategy, and business re-engineering and has extensive experience in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, as well as in some markets in Asia. She was previously an Executive Director of Vodacom (Pty) Ltd, Nestlé South Africa (Pty) Ltd and SABMiller (Africa and Asia), Chair of the Vodacom Foundation (South Africa) and a Board member of World Wide Fund for Nature.

Directorship(s) in other listed companies
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Date of first appointment
November 2016

Qualifications
BSc (Honours) in Mathematics and Chartered Accountant (UK)

Responsibilities
Executive Director as from September 2021 after having been a Non-Executive Director since November 2016, Jean Michel is a member of the Corporate Strategy Committee, the Remuneration, Corporate Governance, Ethics & Sustainability Committee, the Risk Monitoring Committee and the Supervisory & Monitoring Committee. Moreover, he is a member of the Group’s Corporate Sustainability Committee (a sub-committee of the Remuneration, Corporate Governance, Ethics & Sustainability Committee) and Technology & Innovation Committee (a sub-committee of the Corporate Strategy Committee).

Skills and Experience
Jean Michel joined MCB Ltd in January 2004 and was the Head of Corporate Banking of the Bank until July 2015, when he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of MCB Investment Holding Ltd. He trained as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen in London before becoming Partner and Head of the Audit and Business Advisory Department of De Chazal Du Mée and subsequently of Ernst & Young in Mauritius. He is currently a Board member of several companies within the Group namely MCB Investment Holding Ltd, Banque Française Commerciale Océan Indien,  The Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited, MCB Seychelles Ltd, MCB Maldives Private Ltd, MCB Madagascar SA, MCB Capital Markets Ltd and MCB Equity Fund Ltd, amongst others. Moreover, he sits on the Risk Monitoring Committee of MCB Ltd.  He is the Chief Executive of MCB Group Ltd since March 2023.

Directorship(s) in other listed companies
Compagnie Des Villages De Vacances De L’Isle De France Limitée (COVIFRA)

Date of first appointment
November 2018

Qualifications
BSc in Economics and Statistics (South Africa), BSc (Honours) Operation Research (South Africa), LLM International Business Law (France) and Fellow of the Institute of Faculty of Actuaries (UK)

Responsibilities
Non-Executive Director since November 2018. San is Chairperson of the Audit Committee.

Skills and Experience
San is a qualified actuary with over 23 years of experience across the sub-Saharan Africa region, the UK and the Netherlands. Her experience spans an array of disciplines in the insurance fields with particular interest in developing markets. She has worked for various regional and international companies including Old Mutual (Cape Town), and PwC (London and Amsterdam). She currently heads the Aon Global Benefits Africa Unit. She is the Chairperson of Anglo African Investments Ltd and is a director on Happy World Property Ltd.

Directorship(s) in other listed companies
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