President
Karen Robinson FCG, LLB, LLM

Karen is the company secretary of Vodacom SA. She was previously company secretary at The Huge Group. She is a member of the Professional Standards Committee of CGI. 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. Karen serves on the executive committee.

Senior Vice President
Lynelle Bagwandeen FCG, LLB, LLM

Lynelle Bagwandeen is the company secretary of Naspers Limited since August 2020. Prior to that she was general counsel and head of legal at 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.

Vice President
S Giuricich FCG

Sonia runs an accounting and tax practice which has some large clients. She worked for 6 years at Anglo American and for 3 years at Total SA in accounting and internal auditing. Sonia serves on the CGISA Executive Committee and the Finance and Risk Committee. She is also a PPG member.

Past President
Robert Likhang FCG, 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 CGISA 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 of FSBP (Pty) Ltd South Africa, chief of strategic planning at 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.

SAH Kajee

R Likhang (Lesotho)