Rianné is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and Compliance Professional (SA). During her 27-year career in banking she filled various senior management roles in business, finance, risk management, internal audit and compliance. She ran her own compliance consulting firm for 7 years before being appointed as the CEO of the Compliance Institute Southern Africa on 2 July 2018.

She is passionate about compliance and ensuring that the compliance profession is positioned as a strategic business partner, an independent assurance provider and what it means to be the ‘C’ in GRC.