Dionne Van Zyl

BSc (Engineering), BA (Theology), MBA, Ph.D. (Management)

Dionne Van Zyl is a proven senior-level executive with over 34 years of experience leading early-stage growth companies in high technology and financial services. Held 3 CEO positions and formed numerous creative high leverage alliances and high visibility Fortune 100 partnerships such as DST Systems, CSC Continuum, Financial Holding Corporation, BMC Intelligent Technologies, and industry leader clients such as ING, Aegon, American Express, Zurich Kemper Life, Hartford Life, Pacific Life, American Scandia and Linclon Life.

Dionne Van Zyl

Dr. Van Zyl successfully established Exchange America (a financial services technology business) in the USA. Exchange America was a joint venture between Dexus Technologies, Inc., DST Systems, Inc, and Financial Holding Corporation, Inc.(the largest privately held insurance group in the USA). DST is a publicly traded company with 11,000 employees providing record keeping for the mutual fund industry. FHC is a privately held company with over $4.6 billion in assets. He was appointed CEO of the joint venture in January 2001 with 85 employees and an 11-member executive management team.