Beyers is a graduate of the University of South Africa with qualifications in Banking, Information Technology. He spent the greater part of his career consulting to various international banks and insurance companies doing large-scale system development and integration projects. During this time, Beyers headed up an outsourced contract team at Barclays Africa to support, maintain and approve some 260 core banking applications. He later joined Barclays as an executive to lead Service Management for Retail Banking. When Barclays divested from ABSA, he was placed in charge of migrating systems from Barclays to ABSA and part of the separation programme.

After his tenure at ABSA, he founded a Banking Systems Integration firm specializing in the implementation of complex banking and financial systems.