Mr. Sylvester Dendere is a Corporate Affairs Executive with Wilmar Surface/Olivine. Prior to this engagement, he was a Senior Business Consultant,assisting local and international usinesses in developing strategic alignment and rebranding in the Construction, Petrochemical and Banking industries. Having spent 25 years in the banking industry, he has a sound understanding of Zimbabwean and International banking due to deployments by Standard Bank of South Africa to South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Swaziland during his working career.

Sylvester worked at Meikles / Kingdom Bank Limited as its Deputy Managing Director, at Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe Limited as Country Head of Personal and Business Banking (Retail Banking), and Head of International Trade and Structured Finance. He is an agricultural expert, having worked for the Department of esearch & Specialist services in the Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural Finance Corporation, rising through the various levels from, Branch Manager, Regional Manager to Assistant Director Banking.

Sylvester holds a Master in Business Leadership (MBL), obtained from the University of South Africa, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Hons), University of Zimbabwe and Institute of Bankers (IOB)