Usha is a Chartered Accountant by profession and was a director at KPMG heading up the Owner Managed Business Unit before assuming the role of HR director for KZN, overseeing finance and operations functions for the region while servicing a SME client base.
Since 2016 she has been an executive and non-executive director of certain unlisted companies and since 2017, a non-executive director, audit committee member and social and ethics committee member of Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal with a keen interest in cybersecurity and Fourth Industrial Revolution.