Background: Business Leader and Mentor
Skills: HR and Business Administration
Passion(s): People development, business mentoring, nature and surfing.
Qualifications: Business Administration and Marketing.
David White is an accomplished business leader with qualifications in Business Administration and Marketing, dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in building resilient, high-quality, and sustainable businesses. As the founder and CEO of BusinessFit SA, he developed a five-stage quality assurance methodology—coordinated through a native app—that includes a corrective action sustainability report, helping organisations in South Africa and the UK, via BusinessFit International, to improve practices and facilitate trade between the two regions. His quality assurance process assesses 32 key focus areas across four pillars, and awards successful businesses a BusinessFit Ethics and Compliance Certificate. David also founded DRG, an HR consultancy serving clients from over forty countries, and co-founded the Green Lights Sustainability Initiative, which offers sustainability training and verification. His governance experience spans various sectors, and he is highly networked in South Africa and the UK. Additionally, David is a long-standing columnist for a business newspaper with a readership of 280,000, writing on topics such as business, governance, leadership, and sustainability, and he leads the SA Chapter of the South African Chamber United Kingdom and is President of the Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club, both of which promote business development between South Africa and the world.