President
Robert Likhang FCIS, ACMA, CA (Lesotho)

Robert is head of RL Consulting (Pty) Ltd, which provides virtual CFO and company secretarial services, as well as providing consultancy and corporate training in the areas of finance and governance. Robert serves on the CSSA Executive and Disciplinary Committees. Robert has finance, governance and general management experience having held senior positions at executive level and as non-executive board member across many industries in Lesotho and the region. These include being CEO of Paragon Business Products, Lesotho Institute of Accountants, Basotho Enterprise Development Corporation, as well as group finance director FSBP (Pty) Ltd South Africa, chief of strategic planning Lesotho Communications Authority, amongst others. Robert is highly engaged in his profession wherein he is a vice president of the Lesotho Institute of Accountants. Robert has been appointed as chair of the Lesotho Revenue Authority.

Senior Vice President
Karen Robinson FCIS, LLB, LLM

Karen is the company secretary of The Huge Group. She serves on the CSSA Education and Examinations Committee and is a member of the Professional Standards Committee of the ICSA. Karen is an experienced company secretary, having worked in both the listed and unlisted environment. She has experience in the construction, mining, financial services and telecommunications industries and previously served as the company secretary of Aveng Ltd, Gold Fields Ltd and FedGroup.

Vice President
Lynelle Bagwandeen FCIS, LLB, LLM

Lynelle Bagwandeen is the Company Secretary and General Counsel or head of legal of Netcare Limited. She has held this position since 1 March 2011 and was promoted to the company’s executive committee in 2012. She was appointed as a director to the board of the Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA) in 2015. Her background includes providing corporate governance and legal advice to two large national banks and an international mining house which included work on foreign listings in London in respect of the AIM. She completed her articles at a large national law firm and was admitted as an attorney in 2002. Her area of expertise remains corporate governance and enhancing compliance with due regard to health legislation and the Companies Act. Her masters dissertation was on corporate governance and was invited to be published as a book entitled The Role of Disclosure in enhancing Corporate Governance.

Past President
Sikkie Kajee FCIS, B Compt (Hons), MBA, CIA, Professional Accountant (SA), AGA (SA), Chartered Director (SA)

Sikkie is a corporate governance consultant. He serves on the CSSA Executive, and Finance and Risk Committees. Sikkie was a partner at KPMG for approximately 5.5 years in the internal audit unit, before moving to the management consulting unit for 3 years. He serves on the boards of the following organisations: the Automobile Association of South Africa NPC (non-executive chairman); Powertech Transformers (Pty) Ltd (alternate director); Altec UEC (Pty) Ltd; Dorper Wind Farm (Pty) Ltd (alternate director); the DTI audit committee (chairman); the Audit Committee of the Government Printing Works (chairman); and the Audit committee of the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (chairman).

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