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 | Adii Pienaar Adriaan Pienaar is an entrepreneur, the co-founder of the very successful online startup WooThemes and a general creator of Rockstar Awesomeness. Along with being a serial entrepreneur, he is also a designer & developer (CSS, PHP & WordPress), which has ...... more |
 | Alistair Fairweather For his sins, Alistair has been working in online publishing since 2001. Starting out as a web designer, he worked for tech start-ups in both Johannesburg and England. Returning to South Africa in 2002, he moved into an editorial position on MWEB’...... more |
 | Andrea Bohmert Andrea Bohmert is the director and co-managing partner of Hasso Plattner Ventures and has been responsible for the initial set up of the Fund in South Africa. From 2004 to 2007 she was Co-Founder and Partner of Cape Venture Partners, a VC ...... more |
 | Andrea Mitchell Andrea Mitchell has been actively involved in local and international digital marketing since 1997 and has worked closely with key global companies on their digital marketing strategies. As one of the pioneering architects of the South African digital landscape, Andrea is ...... more |
 | Andrew October Andrew October is a techie@large. He has two decades of media experience and a decade of reporting on tech trends experience, specialising in mobile in Africa.... more |
 | Andrew Rens Andrew Rens is a recovering lawyer and wanna be outdoors fanatic who lives in the Cape winelands. He thinks and writes about the interaction of law, knowledge and innovation. Andrew works as a legal consultant, as well as conducting research ...... more |
 | Andy Hadfield Andy Hadfield is a digital strategist at First National Bank (FNB), working mostly in the consumer space. He believes passionately - and blindly sometimes - in the value of digital channels for big business in South Africa. Read his Blog ...... more |
 | Andy Higgins Andy Higgins is the co-founder and Managing Director of bidorbuy.co.za, South Africa's leading online marketplace. He is also on the board of directors at payfast.co.za, a company specialising in online payments for South Africa, jobs.co....... more |
 | Aneshree Naidoo Aneshree Naidoo has been on the internet for ten years; writing, editing and hanging around inappropriate chatrooms. But eventually she grew up and is now a freelance writer and copy editor. In her spare time she reads bad chick lit ...... more |
 | Anne Taylor Anne Taylor has played with news and words for a living since she fell into journalism 18 years ago. After stints at most of South Africa’s major newspapers as a sub-editor and reporter, she took her life into her hands ...... more |
 | Anthony Farr Anthony's belief in the power of education and his zeal for the upliftment of others inspires him in his CEO responsibilities to drive the mandate of the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and deliver on its objectives. Anthony, a co-founder of ...... more |
 | Arthur Brigg Over 12 years in the multimedia and print industry, 8 years experience in Digital and Web design both on large and small scale. Other skills include basic animation and video editing, illustration, cartoons and copywriting. Arthur has worked on national advertising campaigns ...... more |
 | Arthur Charles Van Wyk Arthur Charles Van Wyk is the CEO of Fluence, a “new media marketing” agency based in Durban, Kwazulu Natal. He has been professionally active on the creative and marketing sides of the internet since 1997. He was born and raised in ...... more |
 | Basheera Khan Basheera Khan is a user experience designer focusing on information architecture and content strategy. A former journalist, Bash’s first technology reporting job was with ITWeb in 1998. She moved to Wales in 2001, joining Swansea University’s computer science department to ...... more |
 | Brendan Jack Brendan writes, produces, directs and sometimes performs in his online branded entertainment campaigns. “Even if you wanted to ramp a truck off Table Mountain to sell something, we don’t need a permit.”He also works in the film and ...... more |
 | Brett Commaille Brett is the CEO of Invenfin Venture Capital, an early or seed stage venture capital fund, owned by Remgro Ltd, and focused on differentiated intellectual property with global potential. As a CA, Brett has worked in audit, merchant banking and ...... more |
 | Cath Lückhoff Catherine Lückhoff is orchestrating a quiet revolution in the South African communications industry. Taking tried and tested methods, adding new ways of reaching an audience, and unconventional concepts, Catherine creates exceptional strategies to meet defined business communication and publicity ...... more |
 | Catherine Murray Catherine is currently Head of Online at Atalink Ltd, a specialist publishing company based in Central London. She manages the development of news and feature based websites and other online projects, aimed at the business, IT and finance sectors in ...... more |
 | Catherine Parker Catherine Parker is a social media and search consultant and web copywriter. Via her first love, copywriting, she fell into the search engine marketing industry, working at Quirk eMarketing in Cape Town, followed by Greenlight Marketing in London, and then ...... more |
 | Claire Bell Claire Bell has written for TIME magazine, The Independent, The Scotsman and The Herald (under her maiden name Claire Smith). She is currently a journalism fellow with the Open Society Foundation for South Africa, looking into how democracy has changed ...... more |
 | Colin Daniels Colin is currently Head of Digital at the Trader Media Group (South Africa), part of Europe’s largest specialist multimedia publishing group jointly-owned by the Guardian Media Group and Apax Partners. He is responsible for managing a commercial department, which ...... more |
 | Conrad Owens Conrad Owens is a Digital Media Analyst based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has many years experience in mainstream and digital media and has worked extensively in television, design and on the Internet. Some of his qualifications include a ...... more |
 | Corné And Twakkie Like the most flippin funny show in South Africa Corné and Twakkie are definitely not kak guy. Believe it! Because it's True.... more |
 | Craig Bruton Originally studying Information Technology, Craig developed an interest in design and online media, and moved from business software programming into the more innovative world of online and digital media. Craig opened Refresh Creative Media in 2001 with Graham Shillington, with the ...... more |
 | Dave Perel Born in 1985 in Johannesburg, but now living in Cape Town, South Africa. Dave got involved in the web industry two months after matriculating. He started off working for his father's company, Peresoft Software, in a two-man web division. A year ...... more |
 | Debby Hammond-Byrne I wonder who is able to say that after 13 years of experience they’re still learning and getting excited about new developments daily. Debby does, and for this very reason she is ecstatic to find herself heading up a dynamic, ...... more |
 | Debré Barrett Debré Barrett is a User Experience Consultant at Flow Interactive. She advises clients on usability, user-centred design and communication strategy. She has a journalism degree from Rhodes, and spent many years as an online news journalist in South Africa and ...... more |
 | Dee Chetty Dee Chetty, is an Indian-educated web junky from Cape Town. He currently works at MWEB as the New Product Development Strategist for their Mobile division. Dee is a Blogger with a keen focus on Technology, Web Trends, Mobile and Cars. ...... more |
 | Donald Gips Before being asked to be President Obama’s personal representative to South Africa, Ambassador Donald Gips served as Assistant to the President. He was a leader on the Presidential Transition Team and then served in the White House, where he ...... more |
 | Dr. Peter Streicher Dr Pieter Streicher graduated from WITS with a BSc-Eng(Civil) in 1991 and he received his PhD from UCT in 1996. After working as a civil engineer at HHO Africa, Dr Streicher, along with Richard Simpson, (BSc-Eng(Civil), MBA), established Celerity Systems ...... more |
 | Paul Jacobson Paul Jacobson is a Web and Digital Media Lawyer at Jacobson Attorneys, a niche commercial and social media law firm he founded in August 2005. Paul focusses on the intersect of social media and the law and has an obsessive fascination ...... more |
 | Peter Verweij After 30 years of lecturing and training at the School of Journalism at Utrecht in journalism, politics and new media, Peter Verweij, started in 2005 his own company D3-Media, which focuses on the following areas: Production of journalistic content for multimedia ...... more |
 | Phil Barrett Phil Barrett is a director of Flow Interactive in the UK and South Africa. He's a user experience designer, which means he helps businesses make more money by making their customers happier. As the complexity of the world around us ...... more |
 | Philip Langley Perpetually curious, Philip is primarily interested on the way technology and society affects each other. Building websites since Geocities days, he is now Senior Designer at 24.com and has redesigned News24.com, Fin24.co.za and several other 24.com properties. ...... more |
 | Elaine Rumboll Elaine Rumboll possesses an eclectic range of skills, being a former performance artist, internationally published award-winning poet, blues singer and academic turned entrepreneur. Elaine was appointed Director of Executive Education, UCT Graduate School of Business in 2005. She is currently working ...... more |
 | Elan Lohmann Elan Lohmann is the current General Manager of Digital at Avusa Media. He is an online expert that has been in the game since the browsed web was born, and has managed many of South Africa’s leading online brands, ...... more |
 | Elvira van Noort Elvira van Noort runs her own media company called EvN Media Solutions. She coordinates the annual Digital Citizen Indaba on Blogging, is the Citizen Journalism Course ...... more |
 | Emma Kaye Before setting out to giving sustainable business direction to an African brand in new media for the mobile screen, Emma Kaye did much the same for African animation and entertainment. In animation, her credentials as co-founder of Triggerfish Animation (one ...... more |
 | Eran Eyal Eran Eyal matriculated in 1992, continuing his studies at University of Natal and UNISA towards his B.A. until 1996, during which he worked for Insight Technologies (later to become Logical – the hardware provider arm of Datatech) in technical support and producing ...... more |
 | Erik Hersman I grew up in Kenya and Sudan. I’m one of those guys who’s much more “at home” in Africa, and I currently live in Kenya. I’m happily married and have 3 beautiful little girls that keep me on ...... more |
 | Ferial Haffajee Ferial Haffajee is the editor-in-chief of City Press. Previously she held the same position at the Mail & Guardian. An alumni of the Africa Leadership Initiative, a project of the Aspen Institute. Ferial sits on the board of Gender Links ...... more |
 | Gabrielle Rosario I’m a closet-academic and a geek by association, passionate about a few things, namely; being online, brands, strategic marketing and communication. I run The Storyboard, and offer strategic and creative consult and direction to clients direct and agencies e....... more |
 | Gareth Knight Gareth Knight is a digital maven and open source evangelist. Educated as a zoologist, he is a veteran of two dot com crashes in London, one web 2.0 acquisition, and runs Technovated. Previously, Gareth served in London as Director of Product ...... more |
 | Gill Moodie Gill Moodie toiled away over a hot terminal as a reporter, sub-editor and middle manager in the print industry in South Africa and the UK for 14 years until she became a freelance journalist and Moneyweb media columnist. She once managed ...... more |
 | Graeme Haley Graeme Haley is the CEO and co-founder of specialist mobile media company, Thumbtribe. Graeme is one of the few true South Africa experts in media, marketing, advertising and content for mobile having spent more than a decade working hands-on in ...... more |
 | Graeme Lipschitz Graeme Lipschitz is a Business Development manager at Clicks2Customers.com. He has previously worked for Google UK and Google South Africa as a lead account strategist, growing accounts in the Travel,... more |
 | Guy Berger Prof Guy Berger is head of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. There he has overseen the development of the Africa Media Matrix building, as well as projects like the New Media Lab, ...... more |
 | Harry Dugmore Harry Dugmore was appointed MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communication and Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in South Africa in 2008. In his position at MTN Chair at Rhodes, Harry is running ...... more |
 | Heather Ford Heather Ford is a South African social entrepreneur, researcher and writer who is fascinated by communities who get together to work, play and deliberate on the internet. She is currently enrolled as a Masters student at the UC Berkeley iSchool ...... more |
 | Herman Manson (@marklives) Herman Manson (@marklives) is a business journalist and media commentator who blogs at http://www.marklives.com. His writing appeared in newspapers and magazines here and abroad in titles as diverse as AdVantage, Business 2.0, The Mail & Guardian, Men's Health, ...... more |
 | Hilton Tarrant Hilton Tarrant is production editor at Moneyweb. His main focus is project management for the listed company’s local and international websites, and contributes to their strategic direction. From time-to-time, he also fills in for Alec Hogg on the SAfm ...... more |
 | Jacobus van Eeden Jacobus van Eeden lives in Cape Town and is a self-proclaimed geek in both his professional and personal life. He has studied BA Humanities, Hons in History and MA International Studies at Stellenbosch University where he used to work as ...... more |
 | Jarred Cinman Jarred Cinman is a founder and Director of Cambrient, one of South Africa's most prominent and successful digital development agencies. He has been in the digital industry for over 15 years, having founded his first business in 1995 fresh out of his ...... more |
 | Jason Elk Growing up with a Commodore Vic 20, dial-up bulletin boards and a 2400 modem, I’ve been online since high school in the nineties, with the IRC logs to prove it! Between then and now, I spearheaded web initiatives for an international ...... more |
 | Jason Norwood-Young Jason Norwood-Young is the Technical Manager at Mail & Guardian Online and a Geek God.... more |
 | Jennifer Kling Jenny Kling, together with business partner Keri Tomblin, is a co-owner of the new boutique social media agency in Cape Town called Chilli Marketing. With extensive brand management backgrounds and certificates in eMarketing, Chilli Marketing dedicates its time and expertise ...... more |
 | Jeremy Daniel: Memeburn Editor Jeremy Daniel is the editor of www.memeburn.com, and a firm believer in the transformative power of mobile technology for emerging markets. Jeremy has written across various media platforms for the last 10 years, from television to advertising to print ...... more |
 | Johann van Tonder Johann van Tonder is an internet strategist at Naspers head office in Cape Town, having written an MBA-thesis on the topic. He has a background in photojournalism and multimedia production and was one of the first bloggers in South Africa, ...... more |
 | Jonty Fisher Jonty Fisher is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, husband, father, trail runner, political blogger, a proud South African and an appreciator of all things clever, creative, beautiful, wise, funny and courageous. While completing a Bachelor of Business Science with Marketing Honours ...... more |
 | Joseph C Lawrence Joseph C Lawrence has had lots of thoughts for a while now about the way in which evolutionary and cognitive psychology can help us improve the way we experience the web. Understanding the way our minds work and process information ...... more |
 | Justin Spratt Justin is an Australian, living in South Africa for the last five years. Speaker and writer on issues where technology and economics intersect. General Manager of VoIP Mobile & Wi-Fi HotSpot businesses at Internet Solutions. Co-founder ISLabs. Co-founder of GeekRetreat. ...... more |
 | Kate Wolters Kate Wolters is a lurker. She lurks online. A lot. She used to blog a lot more, but Twitter has made her lazy. She also works for brand development and marketing insight consultancy Added Value as... more |
 | Kevin Grant: Silicon Valley correspondent Kevin is a journalism geek who hails from Chicago, Illinois. He spent more than three years working in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” building the content enrichment firm Inform Technologies. He is now a second-year master’s candidate at ...... more |
 | Khaya Dlanga Khaya is an award-winning advertising personality and is currently the Creative Strategic Director at Metropolitan Republic where he works on the FNB and MTN accounts. In 2008, Khaya was awarded the Digital Citizen Award at the Highway Africa Conference, the largest ...... more |
 | Laurice Taitz Mediatrix. Digital strategist. Blogger. Journalist. Critic. Talking media, old and new.... more |
 | Leonard Ah Kun Leonard Ah Kun is a mobile application development specialist and interaction designer. He has a M.Sc degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town. During his studies, his research focused mainly on creating engaging experiences with mobile ...... more |
 | Lianne Byrne-Hammacott Lianne is an online marketing specialist, with 10+ years experience (offline and online), working client side for large corporates, running her own consultancy and working agency side. She’s worked on large online marketing projects from concept and strategy through to ...... more |
 | Liezl Coetzee After completing a BA Humanities & BSc Mathematical Sciences at RAU (now University of Johannesburg) in 1999, Liezl packed her bags and left to Egypt, where she spent a delicious year working as a dishwasher in Israel in 1996. This time round ...... more |
 | Loy Okezie Loy Okezie is a digital marketing strategist and founder of Startups Nigeria, the first online technology startup community in Nigeria. He has consulted for several small and mid-size companies and helped start-up CareersNigeria.com, one of the leading job portals ...... more |
 | Mandy de Waal Mandy de Waal is a writer, thought activist and investigative journalist with a fondness for smart atheists, intelligent writing and well-constructed arguments. Read her Blog or follow her on Twitter.... more |
 | Marc Forrest Marc Forrest is a blogger, techie, Apple fan boy and dad to three gorgeous kids. He started blogging in 2004 after being inspired by the Joblog.co.za team in Johannesburg, and started a blog called Durbzblog. After realising in 2007 that ...... more |
 | Marcela Ospina Marcela Ospina Salcedo is an Anthropologist who specialises on cultural insights gathering applied to product testing, brand positioning and innovation processes in companies. She holds a Masters in Sociology from the University of Witwatersrand and has seven years of experience ...... more |
 | Marian Pike Freedom activist, media aficionado, knowledge worker, writer, mother, recent academic and social media explorer Marian Pike grew up in the Eastern Cape (Port Elizabeth, Addo, Uitenhage, Grahamstown) before moving to Cape Town (3x), Durban( 2x) and Johannesburg (3x). Marian is ...... more |
 | Mark Comerford Mark started early with the digital stuff. In mid 1994 he put (one of) the first European daily newspapers online, in 1995 he put the municipality of Stockholm, Sweden, online. In 1996 he started one of the worlds first university level digital journalism ...... more |
 | Mark Forrester Mark is a half English, half South African digital designer, recently dabbling in online entrepreneurship. He currently lives and works from his humble abode in South West London, but will proudly be returning, with his wife, to the Mother City ...... more |
 | Mark Kaigwa Mark Kaigwa is a Creative Director and Marketing Consultant born and based in Nairobi. Mark co-wrote the award-winning Warner Bros. videogame 'Pamoja Mtaani’ (Together in the ‘Hood) their groundbreaking first African videogame project as well as 5 Animated short films for ...... more |
 | Mark Sherrington Mark Sherrington studied Economics and Sociology at Bristol university, which he thought would make him the worlds best marketer. He certainly conned unilever for a while (1977 – 1988). They trained him in brand management, gave him a few big ones to run ...... more |
 | Mark Slingsby Mark Slingsby is currently co-founder and Director of local Internet Service Provider RSAWEB. Mark has also co-founded other startups that are now part of the RAMP Group, these include WhiteWallWeb and Evenflow. Through his passion for entrepreneurship and technology, Mark ...... more |
 | Marlon Parker Marlon Parker is a Social Entrepreneur and an Information Technology Lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) since October 2000. He obtained his Masters degree in Information Technology (Cum Laude) and is currently busy with his PhD at CPUT. He ...... more |
 | Martin Carstens Martin is obsessed with technology and the future. His work life includes positions at UK based Hotcourses.com, and currently a large financial services company in South Africa.... more |
 | Matt Cohen Matthew Cohen is a web developer, WordPress enthusiast, avid musician, music lover and blogger. He enjoys coding WordPress plugins and themes, custom web-based applications and playing guitar to a goo... more |
 | Matthew Buckland Matthew Buckland is a web guy. He now dedicates his life and soul to Creative Spark Interactive and Memeburn.com. He previously founded and headed up an innovation startup called 20FourLabs. He ...... more |
 | Matthew Ncube Matthew Ncube is a paid search rockstar living and working in London. He ploughs his trade by day managing global PPC accounts and thus sadly has a knack for quality scores, pivot tables and vlookups. A mathematician, hooked on trend ...... more |
 | Matthew Stone Matthew Stone is a smart guy in Research and Analysis at The Rubiks Room (TRR). Matt supplies sick beats and writes a lot when he’s not exploring the intimate regions of the Internet and its citizens. You can hire ...... more |
 | Michael Ogembo Kachienga Professor Michael Ogembo Kachienga is an Electrical Engineer, Biomedical Engineering Scientist, Consulting Technological Entrepreneur and Professor of Technological Entrepreneurship at the Graduate Sc... more |
 | Nicholas Haralambous Nic Haralambous is a media maniac and has quickly moved from print media, through online and in to mobile media production and management. He has worked as the head of the mobile division at Mail & Guardian and is currently ...... more |
 | Nonny de la Pena Nonny de la Peña is a Senior Research Fellow in Immersive Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. She is also co-founder of Stroome.com, an online community that allows collaborative remixing of visual journalism from ...... more |
 | Rapelang Rabana Rabana as co-founder and CEO of SA based, software development organisation, Yeigo, oversaw the company’s integration into the TelFree Group of companies in 2008. Now as Global Head of R&D of Telfree, she and her colleagues in Cape ...... more |
 | Renee Blodgett Renee Blodgett is CEO and Founder of Magic Sauce Media, a consultancy dedicated to new media marketing and communications. Utilising the best of viral communications, word-of-mouth, guerilla campaigns, and smart marketing & social media & branding strategies, Renee has launched ...... more |
 | Rian Van Der Merwe Rian van der Merwe grew up in Stellenbosch, South Africa, where he studied engineering before moving to Perth, Australia to complete a Ph.D in Internet Marketing. From there he moved to California to pursue a girl (yep, they eventually ...... more |
 | Rich Mulholland For Rich, being a speaker and being a rock star aren’t that far apart. Being on stage means taking your audience on a journey, telling them a story. And who doesn’t like a good story? More importantly, who ...... more |
 | Richard Mullins Richard Mullins opened Acceleration's Johannesburg office in 2000. Richard has played an instrumental role in the growth of Acceleration in South Africa, working with clients to identify their online marketing needs and establish effective online marketing strategies that deliver superior results. ...... more |
 | Rob Dickens Rob Dickens has been a slacker since Grade 2. That's when he learnt how to write... and he's been trading on that talent ever since. He's run the full gamut of wordsmithing from ICT PR to online casino content management, Dimension ...... more |
 | Rob Salkowitz Rob Salkowitz is a writer and futurist specialising in the social implications of new technology and the next-generation workforce. He is the author of three books: "Young World Rising: How Youth, Technology and Entrepreneurship Are Changing the World from the ...... more |
 | Roger Hislop Roger spends most of his work day being terribly nice to people as he’s paid to. He’s been in tech PR for twelve years, but amuses himself writing about gadgets and cars independently for a couple of magus. ...... more |
 | Ryan Gordon Ryan sees things in binary, which is a handy super power for any coder, even better if you can apply it to your world view. With a BCOM (Hon) Information Systems from UCT freshly behind him, Ryan joined the Creative ...... more |
 | Samantha Fleming Samantha Fleming has been working with ICT4D since she discovered possibilities for ‘virtual diplomacy’ in central Africa in 1997. Currently, she works with social media and NGOs in Africa, and manages strategic online communications at Idasa. She also has a ...... more |
 | Scott Cundill Scott Cundill is the founder and CEO of Majestic Interactive, a software tool that uses the “Journey” process to generate database response rates of over 1000% above industry average. After 12 years of pioneering the Internet marketing industry, Scott has many .com ...... more |
 | Scott Gray Scott has been working in the internet marketing space since 2001. As an early member of Quirk eMarketing he was responsible for a variety of activities from search marketing, all the way to client service. In 2005 he joined BMW South Africa ...... more |
 | Sean Nieuwoudt Scott has been working in the internet marketing space since 2001. As an early member of Quirk eMarketing he was responsible for a variety of activities from search marketing, all the way to client service. In 2005 he joined BMW South Africa ...... more |
 | Sean Riley Sean has been involved in online since 1997. Sean began his career at Credit Suisse in London, where he developed tactical applications for the derivatives sector, his pride and joy being a critical reporting tool that leverage the Internet. In 1999 Sean ...... more |
 | Sheraan Amod Sheraan is the 24-year-old Co-Founder of Personera.com, a global personalised publishing platform based on Facebook. In 2009 Personera won the FNB Enablis Business Launchpad competition, joined IS Labs, acquired venture investment and was featured by TechCrunch and Xerox. He is ...... more |
 | Stefano Sessa Stefano is a co-founder at Panacea Mobile, a mobile specialist company providing services that range from bulk SMS to mobile strategy and development.... more |
 | Stephen Newton Stephen Newton is an accomplished business leader who has spent close to a decade working in the online space, where he has been responsible for successfully and profitably growing and leading top on-line companies. As General Manager and part of ...... more |
 | Steven Lang Steven Lang spent most of his career working in different departments of the SABC. He was the founding executive producer of www.sabcnews.com and until December 2007, the executive producer of current affairs on SAfm radio. He currently works as ...... more |
 | Steven Preston Steven Preston is Co-Founder and a Mobile Specialist at Cobi Interactive, the first South African technology company to offer custom software development for the full range of mobile platforms including iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and Android. After completing his BSc (Honours) ...... more |
 | Sue Rutherford Sue Rutherford is the founder, director and inspiration behind The Forge Web Creations, a successful web development company based in Cape Town, South Africa.... more |
 | Suede Suede is a Strategic Entertainment Consultant who interacts and partners with international brands, entertainers and thought leaders from the Black Eyed Peas to Ben Sherman, Lalla Hirayama, Standard Bank, Dream Hampton, Crosstrainer, The Cheese Kids and OkayPlayerAfrica. Follow him on ...... more |
 | Tanya Farber Tanya Farber is a freelance journalist and writer who has won several awards locally and internationally for her work. These include a CNN African Journalist of the Year award, a Lorenzi Natali Award for Human Rights Journalism from the European ...... more |
 | Theo Mseka Theo was one of the founding members of Go Media, a digital media agency with an international network of clients and developed My Agent, a property portal focused on South African estate agents. He then joined Property24.com at the ...... more |
 | Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley Tom Foremski is a former Financial Times journalist and the Founder and Publisher of Silicon Valley watcher, which is an online news site reporting on the business of Silicon Valley and the culture of... more |
 | Turi Munthe Turi Munthe is the CEO of Demotix.com, which is the multi-award winning home of 'Street Journalism' - the newswire where YOU tell the stories. He's English-French-Swedish and was brought up in London. He's been a publisher, editor, policy analyst, ...... more |
 | Vincent Maher Vincent Maher is the portfolio manager for social media at Vodacom, South Africa's largest mobile telecommunications company. His flagship product is The Grid, a fast-growing location-based social network and instant messaging platform. Previously he was the strategist at the Mail &...... more |
 | Vint Cerf Vinton G. Cerf is an American computer scientist who is the "person most often called the father of the Internet". His contributions have been recognised repeatedly, with honorary degrees, and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing ...... more |
 | Walter Pike A right-brained marketing maven. After a period as head of faculty: marketing and advertising, 2010 saw him launching two new businesses. PiKE | The new marketing agency and the Digital Academy. The former to make sense of brands in an always on, ...... more |
 | Yoav Tchelet Yoav Tchelet currently manages the e-commerce division of Avis in South Africa. He has spent the better part of the last 10 years in various digital marketing roles and projects including founding a digital agency, working with some of the largest ...... more |
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