Changing lives- with Kevin Chaplin

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Kevin grew up in KwaZulu Natal, spent 10 years in Gauteng before moving to Cape
Town in 2000.
He graduated with a BComm degree majoring in Accounts and Business Economics from UNISA as well as an Associate Diploma in Banking. He also completed the UCT Graduate School of Business Executive Management Development Programme. Kevin was previously Provincial Manager, First National Bank Western Cape and prior to that Sales and Service Director Cape Town; Director Finance, Human Resources & Admin FNB First Commerce Gauteng and National Industrial Relation Manager in Johannesburg. As Sales and Service Director Cape Town he turned the business around from bottom to top performing.
At the end of 2006, after 26 years in banking, Kevin founded the South African Ubuntu Foundation. A few months later he also took over the Amy Biehl Foundation as Managing Director when they were insolvent and he has turned it around into a thriving organization. In 2014 and 2015, against all odds he built the Amy Foundation Youth Skills Centre costing over R 8 million and fully paid off in 18 months. Kevin is a resident lecturer for University of Miami, USA. He is also a speaker at numerous local and international conferences, corporate events and universities.

His new book Can do! Making the Impossible Possible, with foreword by Desmond Tutu was released in February 2020.
5 Mar English South Africa Places & Travel

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