Christopher Oosthuizen

As a marketing leader, Chris’s remarkable track record in the self-storage industry sets him apart. His marketing successes at Stor-Age Property REIT have significantly helped take the company from a small start-up in a room in Edgemead, Western Cape, to the leading self storage company in South Africa.

However, Chris’s impact extends far beyond his role as a marketing executive. He is an entrepreneur at heart, tirelessly working towards building businesses and creating employment opportunities. One of Chris’s driving beliefs is that individual South Africans have the potential and resilience to propel the nation towards a prosperous future. And he puts his money where his mouth is. For the past 12 years, Chris has devoted his career to creating employment opportunities. His Digital First Marketing Agency has not only created 30+ jobs to date in South Africa, it has emerged as the leading global digital agency in the self storage sector, helping operators in 12 markets and across multiple languages scale.

Chris is also an avid environmentalist who cares deeply about our social responsibility to protect and preserve South Africa’s incredible natural environment. As the founder of the non-profit organisation “Honeybee Heroes,” he is championing the cause of sustainable honey production and protecting South Africa’s vital honeybee population. Chris’s mission with Honeybee Heroes is threefold: ethical conservation, consumer education and female upliftment. The organisation upskills and trains disprivileged women in the Stanford community to become independent, small-scale beekeepers.

Chris is exactly the kind of leader that South Africa needs more of to move positively into the future. Having impacted countless lives, he leads by example, with courage, resilience and passion for this country, its people and its future growth.