Ruwaida Eksteen

Group company secretary

B.Comm (Law), LLB, Masters degree (Dev Finance)
Appointed (1 July 2022)

Ruwaida assumed the role of group company secretary at Santam in 2022. She previously served in various senior risk, governance, compliance, legal, commercial and company secretarial roles in the JSE-listed environment in the financial services industry, the FMCG industry as well as the energy sector before joining Sanlam Ltd in 2018 until mid-2022. She also gained valuable experience on the boards of directors on which she previously served during her tenure as an independent non-executive director.