South Africa

Olivier Granet is the former CEO of AccorHotels Middle East and Africa, where he was responsible for a portfolio of over 200 hotels consisting of 50,000 rooms across over 30 countries. He joined the Middle East team in 2011 at a time when the Group had 40 hotels in the region. With almost 20 years… read more »

Geoffrey White, CEO of Agility Africa, is an expert on infrastructure development, retail supply chains, agri-business, and investment for African markets. Agility, a leading global provider of logistics and related infrastructure solutions for the oil and gas and FMCG markets, has over $5 billion in revenue, 24,000 employees, and offices in more than 100 countries…. read more »

Seanice Lojede has a degree in Mass Communications and Digital Marketing as well as in Business finance, she started her career in Media as a TV and Radio presenter and after studying digital marketing went on to co-found and build a Pan African Digital Agency servicing among other Airtel Uganda Kenya and Rwanda, Diageo, Social… read more »

Danette Breitenbach, Before her editorship, she was deputy-editor as well as freelancing for over a year on the publication before that. She has worked extensively in print media, mainly b2b, in the fields of marketing, mining, disability marketing, advertising and media. Stayed in South Africa.

Mongezi Mtati began experimenting with blogging and social media in 2007 when he took on entrepreneurship and content creation. Mongezi Mtati founded his company, wordstart, to help companies generate buzz about their products and services among south african influencers through robust digital strategy.

Dali Tembo, Having completed his undergrad in Organisational psychology, business management and public management, Dali went on to study a post-grad honours in marketing and an MBA specialising in emerging markets from the university of Liverpool.Dali Tembo has delivered strategic guidance to numerous multi-national corporations across africa and mea, run his own youth trends columns,… read more »

Kirigo kamore has experience in the fashion industry and in non-profit, where she worked as a copywriter and online editor. As of 2018, she decided to make a career transition into advertising, at mccann1886 (formerly McCann Johannesburg), where she currently works as a junior digital strategist and is one of 40 diversity champions within the… read more »

Kalliebree Keynerd leads a team of social media managers working on a range of brands, including chicken licken, anglo american, ab inbev, nestle, revlon and jet. Whilst working as head of digital at meropa pr & communications, kalliebree developed the award-winning social campaign and platform #ratherbeinmauritius for mauritius tourism sa. In 10 years of digital… read more »

As Founder and CEO of 10XBeta, product development and engineering firm working in consumer and enterprise electronics, medical devices, and specialized robotics, Marcel Botha works to build expert multidisciplinary teams to solve unique, complex problems by leveraging a global network of manufacturing partners and has developed hundreds of products. In 2010, Marcel co-founded Patients Pending… read more »

Ryan Menno Brouwer came about in 2014 when two friends, David Torr and Chris Verster Cohen, noticed a gap in the market for convenient, healthy dinner solutions. After officially launching the business in 2015, they were quickly joined by a few friends, and proceeded to operate the young start-up out of a garage in Cape… read more »

Danilo Acquisto background in TV presenting across the. and radio presenting combined with his entrepreneurial spirit led him to want to drop (almost) everything and start pioneering the space of online video. Danilo Acquisto stayed in South Africa.

Holly Meadows has over twelve years experience working across editorial and commercial content for internationally recognized magazine brands. Holly Meadows currently heads up a team of editors dedicated to creating content and experiences across print, digital and live platforms, that engage the fun, fearless female. Stayed in South Africa.

Noxolo Mafu has also worked as the Head of Video at the same publication. In this role she helped manage all editorial and commercial video production and content for the publication. She has developed her career in the digital realm of media having previously worked for the top news platform in South Africa, News24 where… read more »

Currently, Gareth works with various internal teams at 24.com, providing insights that drive ad campaign effectiveness, customer acquisition and reader engagement. Gareth Lloyd is particularly interested in applying principles of behavioral economics to research and using these to develop cutting edge approaches. He is a member of the IAB South Africa research council. 24.com has… read more »

Annette holds a Business Science Finance & Marketing degree (Honours Cum Laude) from the University of Cape Town, Recognised by Forbes as one of the ‘top 10 female tech founders to watch In Africa’ (2014)’, Annette Muller is a sought after international speaker, where her work continues to inspire people and companies all around the… read more »