Marita de Hair is an accountant for a portfolio of international, mostly publicly listed companies and social organizations. With her many years of experience as a partner at EY, she combines strategic insight and governance expertise with a sharp eye for reputation, value creation, and future resilience. She has a pronounced affinity for entrepreneurship and innovation and enjoys working with organizations that want to accelerate their ambitions, further professionalize, or scale internationally. From her governance experience, Marita knows how to connect complex interests and purposefully involve stakeholders in change. She explicitly sees opportunities where businesses and social organizations strengthen each other and gladly fulfills a connecting role within these networks.
Within EY, Marita is a director in the Assurance practice and responsible for Clients & Industries. In that role, her focus is on the go-to-market strategy, strategic relationship management, and enhancing customer satisfaction.
"Especially in this period of profound transformation, the focus for me is on people. I strongly believe in personal collaboration, knowledge sharing, and leveraging each other's strengths. By stimulating connections between clients, relationships, and EY teams, we create sustainable social value together. With great energy, I work with my fellow accountants, tax specialists, and consultants and share the best of EY."
How Marita is shaping the future with confidence
"I closely follow national and international developments in entrepreneurship, governance, and sustainability and gladly contribute to knowledge sessions and strategic discussions. My drive is always the translation to practice: what does this concretely mean for the organization?
In doing so, I bring parties together – inside and outside EY – and enjoy working with ambitious organizations that want to make an impact. Whether it concerns a start-up, a family business, or a large international company: ultimately, it is about future-proof entrepreneurship and achieving meaningful growth."