Job Title: Group chief information officer
Company: Capitec
Andrew Baker is the group chief information officer at Capitec, a role he has held since February 2026.
Before joining Capitec, Andrew served as the chief technology officer for the City of Cape Town.
He previously served as a director of engineering for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) at Amazon Web Services.
Earlier in his career, he held senior IT and engineering positions at Absa Group, Barclays Africa Group Limited, ABSA Capital, Barclays Capital, StatPro, Mott MacDonald and Balfour Beatty plc.
Andrew holds a BSc with honours in Civil Engineering from Aston University.
Work:
2026 – Present: Group chief information officer, Capitec
2023 – 2025: Advisor, Zscaler
2023 – 2024: Advisor, Sybrin
2022 – 2026: Chief technology officer, City of Cape Town
2021 – 2022: Director of engineering, Amazon Web Services
2019 – 2021: Chief technology officer, Absa Group
2018 – 2021: Chief technology officer, Barclays Africa Group Limited
2011 – 2021: Chief information officer, Barclays Africa Group Limited
2009 – 2012: Director of equities and algorithmic trading IT, ABSA Capital
2005 – 2010: Head of EMEA algorithmic trading IT, Barclays Capital
2000 – 2005: Equity finance development manager, Barclays Capital
1998 – 2000: Senior developer, StatPro
1996 – 1998: Geostructural engineer, Mott MacDonald
1994 – 1996: Site engineer, Balfour Beatty plc
Education:
1994: BSc with honours in Civil Engineering, Aston University
About company: Capitec is the largest South African commercial bank by customer base. It is licensed by the Reserve Bank of South Africa, the central bank and national banking regulator.
