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      Pranesh Kara is a Partner at KPMG South Africa and leads the Digital Risk Transformation business unit across Southern Africa. Since joining KPMG in 2006, he has built extensive experience across digital consulting and technology risk, helping organisations navigate complex transformation and emerging technology challenges.

      His experience spans a range of industries, including ports, automotive, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, sugar, public sector, and financial services. Pranesh has led projects across South Africa as well as in Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and Australia. He represented KPMG at the Web Summit in Lisbon in 2016 and, in 2023, led the winning team in KPMG's global Lighthouse competition for an innovative Metaverse Retail use case.

      1. Areas of expertise

        Emerging Technologies, Workflow and Intelligent Automation, Process Transformation, Risk Consulting, Digital Strategy, Technology Transformation, Blockchain, Metaverse/Web3

      2. Education & qualification

        Bachelor of Commerce – Majors in Information Systems and Technology and E-Business

        Blockchain Certified Expert (Blockchain Council)

        Databricks Fundamentals

        PRINCE 2 Foundation

        COBIT 5 Foundation

        KPMG Business Competence Development Programme (Gordon Institute of Business Science)

      3. Accreditations

        COBIT 5 Foundation, ISACA

      4. Optional Details

        Certified Information Systems Auditor (pending re-certification)