Rajesh Sukha has worked with Nine One as the Deputy Group Company Secretary from 2017 until 2021.  He was also the Head of CoSec: Southern Africa at Investec Asset Management since January 2017. He has been serving as a Black Umbrellas director since January 2010 and was appointed Chairman of Black Umbrellas in February 2019.

Rajesh was admitted as an Attorney and registered with Law Society of Cape of Good Hope as a practising attorney in November 2000.

Rajesh’s educational background includes B.Proc. through the University of Western Cape in 1998, CIBM at Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) in 2014 as well as short courses relating to corporate governance.

Rajesh’s professional background includes being a company secretary at Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (SA) and the Sanlam Investments Cluster (asset management/investment division of Sanlam). Prior to that he provided legal advice, specialising in BBBEE, to clients of SEESA Ltd. He later got seconded to SERA (Pty) Ltd as a BBBEE verification manager once the role of advisor and verifier was separated in the BBEE codes.

Rajesh practised law at Weiner & Associates in Cape Town and later opened their Queenstown office (Eastern Cape). He later established his own law firm, Rajesh Sukha and Associates and also took up a shareholding in Amalgamated Debt Management Services (Pty) Ltd, and acted as General Manager.