Gugu is a Chartered Accountant (CA) who is the Executive: Operational Excellence for Barloworld Ingrain. Her career in Barloworld has seen her lead Programme Management for Group Strategy, be the Chief of Staff to the Group CEO as well as Divisional Finance Manager for the Automotive and Logistics Division. She has previously worked for Imperial Cargo Motors and Deloitte, where she aided the delivery of the Deloitte Africa Strategy. She has been recognised amongst the Top 35 CAs under 35 by SAICA, the Top 40 Women under 40 by Destiny Magazine and the Top 200 Young South Africans by the Mail & Guardian. She believes in servant leadership having served as the President of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa. Her passion for the continent is evident in her service as a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum and assistance she has provided to the COBURWAS International Youth Organisation to Transform Africa (CIYOTA), a Uganda based refugee organisation that provides education to the displaced refugees of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan. She is a mentor to many young men and women and has also established the Women’s Business Hub, a women-owned property business.