Prior to joining SBV Services, Grant has had a successful seventeen-year track record with First National Bank.He was directly involved in the merger between First National Bank, Rand Merchant Bank, and Southern & Momentum in 1998 where he was involved in structuring the deal and the due diligence process.This success lead to his appointment as General Manager: Strategy & Communications and a year later he was promoted to CEO: Generic Services Cluster of FirstRand Bank, migrating various business units from corporate Head Office functions to stand alone profit centres which included Group HR, Premises, Communications, Catering, Legal, Procurement and a fleet of over 4,000 vehicles.