Role
Independent Non-Executive Director of Designer Platforms, providing governance oversight, challenge, and assurance across strategy, risk and delivery.
Team
Christo Kok, CA(SA), CFA
Independent Non-Executive Director
Independent governance oversight, financial discipline and structured risk thinking in support of institutional-grade platform delivery.
Contribution
Governance independence, financial oversight, and decision-grade clarity.
Profile
Independent oversight with institutional discipline
Supporting governance outcomes across platform design, implementation and ongoing control.
Core focus
Governance frameworks, financial discipline, capital structuring, and risk oversight that strengthen the operating model and protect long-term stakeholder outcomes.
How value is added
Clear decision rights, strong controls, and independent review across key deliverables, including reporting integrity, operational readiness, and governance cadence.
Christo brings deep experience across finance, governance and institutional decision-making, with a track record of applying rigorous thinking to complex operating environments. His contribution is to ensure that Designer Platforms is built with strong foundations: clear accountability, disciplined governance, and decision-grade transparency.
He supports the organisation by providing independent challenge and oversight, ensuring that the platform model remains Client-first, institutionally credible, and aligned to long-term value creation.
Governance lens
Strong governance is structural: it is designed into the operating model, not added after the fact.
Oversight
What independence looks like in practice
A calm, consistent oversight cadence that protects mandate intent and delivery standards.
Decision-grade clarity
Ensuring board and stakeholder decisions are supported by clear options, clean assumptions, and transparent trade-offs.
Control and assurance
Reviewing controls, accountability and reporting discipline to ensure outcomes remain measurable and auditable.
Long-term alignment
Supporting structures and incentives that remain robust through scale, change, and evolving client needs.