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government services of air
transport, airplane servicing, parts
acquisitions and sales, aircraft
sales, chartering and all related
flight solutions.
In her position as Director
of Business Consulting she
was in charge of a budget of
R35 million for services that
ranged from ‘Clean Audits’,
Organisational Design, Business
Process Reengineering, Supply
Chain Management Projects,
Asset Management Projects, and
occasional Reporting Services.
She was in charge of the strategy
of the Business Consulting unit, in
order to take it from a R35 million
unit to a R60 million turnover
unit for the 2016/17 year. Part
of the services that she was
in the process of developing,
included Reporting (Financial
and Integrated Reporting),
Tax Advisory, and Legal and
Regulatory Compliance.
FORENSIC
INVESTIGATIONS
During 2009 to 2012 Marthie was
leading a team of 9 chartered
accountants from Protect-A-
Partner who provided forensic
accounting and services to the
SIU. She herself was deeply
involved in an investigation at a
major schedule 2 entity, and also
provided guidance on some other
entities. She is also assisting the
legal professionals in investigative
matters, especially where
accounting auditing and legal
compliance form an integral part of
the investigation.
CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE
Marthie has studied international
corporate governance as one of
her subjects at master’s level and
received a distinction mark for this
at a highly rated British University.
In this module of the course
extensive research was done into
the governance philosophies and
practices from around the world.
She has had practical experience
by serving on various boards and
committees, overseeing the work
of management. She was also a
member of one of the working
committees that developed the
new King Code of Corporate
Governance for South Africa
(King IV). In addition to this she
has developed a corporate
governance philosophy and
measuring tool for financial
analysts, whereby long term
sustainable value creation can be
assessed and measured.
She is currently a mentor to a
team of trainee stock brokers,
training them in the skill of
analyzing pragmatic corporate
governance and assessing
its impact on the companies’
true value. She researched
and designed a world class
corporate governance
measurement tool to be applied
by investors on listed entities
to measure their governance
health for sustainable long-term
value creation. Extensive global
research and best practices
formed part of this innovative
measurement instrument.
She has published reports
on large entities’ corporate
governance strengths and
weaknesses, including their
culture (embracive, oppressive or
passive), and has issued proxy
voting recommendations on
listed entities’ AGMs. She is part of
a team of fundamental researchers
in the financial analyst sphere.
BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT,
MARKETING AND
STRATEGY
As the founder and CEO of Protect-
A-Partner she was responsible
for market analysis, building
of networks, maintenance of a
client database, training and
development of experts, client
relationship management,
problem solving and sustainable
development of the entity. As
an entrepreneur she built up a
professional services business
that rendered unique service lines
to professionals, that generated
turnover in excess of R35 million
per annum. During 2011 she
was honoured as a finalist in the
Entrepreneurial Category for the
Gauteng Business Woman of the
Year.
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JANUARY - MARCH 2019