Starting Your Journey to a Board Seat

Adriana Azuri
Executive/Board Strategist, Coach & Branding Expert
The Azuri Group

Martha is a partner in the Century Consulting Group, under UBS Institutional Services. She has over 35 years in the institutional investment consulting industry with various firms. In several of these positions she was the senior consulting professional as well as the practice leader for regional territories. She was responsible for client servicing as well as management and leadership of consulting staffs.

Martha has specific experience working with both defined contribution plans and defined benefit plans in all areas of investment consulting- asset liability studies, investment policy development and compliance, manager structure and manager search. She has worked with plans of all sizes and has experience in the public sector industry.  Martha has a specific expertise in the defined contribution area, dealing with manager structure issues, vendor consolidation, and retirement income alternatives. Additionally she has over 10 years of governance training experience and is currently a Board Source Certified Governance Trainer. She has conducted numerous governance training sessions for her clients and has written several notable articles for industry publications on governance and investment topics.

Martha is a frequent speaker at a number of industry conferences and is a working member of DCIIA serving on several task force committees including the global, the auto provisions and the financial wellness committees.  In addition to serving on the Advisory Council for WIIIN, Martha sits on the Los Angeles Board for the Western Pension Conference.