Sarita Martin

Sarita is a Certified Commercial Mediator, an executive coach, a Faculty Facilitator at the Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA), and an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors of South and a Certified Director. She started her career as a candidate attorney at the Office of the Public Defender moving on to criminal prosecution and back to criminal defence. She left public office to join the corporate world in 1999.

Sarita has held senior positions in compliance, corporate governance and company secretariat at several listed companies. She is a corporate governance specialist and facilitates Board appraisals, governance training and advisory services for the IoDSA. She is also involved as a guest speaker for the Women in Leadership programme at GIBS and is a judge for the Gender Mainstreaming awards as well as a judge for the IoDSA/IFC annual case study competition. She serves as a co-opted member on the Certification Committee of the IoDSA.