 | Abey Mokgwatsane - Abey Mokgwatsane is CEO of the VWV Group (www.vwv.com), one of South Africa's leading business-to-business experiential communication specialists. Starting his career as a marketing trainee at VWV, in 2005, Abey and two partners, Jameson Hlongwane and Wanda Shuenyane, acquired a majority stake in the VWV Group. |
 | Brian Berkman - Brian Berkman can be contacted on 083-441-8765 or Brian@BrianBerkman.com. |
| Cheryl Hunter - Freelance writer, editor and media consultant, Cheryl Hunter, has worked in the newspaper and television arenas, both locally and for the foreign media |
 | Chris Moerdyk - Chris Moerdyk was head of strategic planning and public affairs for BMW South Africa and spent 16 years in the creative and client service departments of ad agencies, ending up as resident director of Lindsay Smithers-FCB in KwaZulu-Natal. Chris was recently listed in a Markinor survey as one of South Africa's top 10 marketing thought leaders. |
| Derek Abdinor - Derek Abdinor is an online corporate communications consultant with a bent for investor relations and enhancing the lives of corporate communicators through Web 2.0. He blogs at http://derek.abdinor.co.za can be emailed eponymously at derek@abdinor.co.za. |
 | Dr Graeme Codrington - Dr Graeme Codrington is an expert on the new world of work and multigenerational workplaces. With three bestselling books published by Penguin, five degrees in five different faculties from five different universities including a doctorate in Business Administration, and work experience ranging from articles at KPMG to IT entrepreneur and professional musician to professional speaker, Graeme brings a unique view to his role as consultant and trends analyst for some of the world's largest companies. |
 | Dr Nikolaus Eberl - The author of the bestselling book BrandOvation: How Germany won the World Cup of Nation Branding, and the sequel The Hero's Journey: Building a Nation of World Champions, Dr Nikolaus Eberl holds a PhD from the Free University of Berlin and a Postgraduate Diploma from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Dr Eberl's research study on Germany's Nation Branding Success Story during the 2006 FIFA World Cup was featured extensively by Carte Blanche (viewers' choice, 1 and 5 July 2007), and he is currently engaged in internal branding for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. |
 | Eve Dmochowska - Eve Dmochowska is the idea facilitator at IdeaBank (www.ideabank.co.za)and keeps her time busy strategising the Internet space, deciphering the world of Web 2.0, and publishing the Internet Guide magazine (www.internetmagazine.co.za) |
 | Fred - With piercing blue eyes, a full set of clean underwear, his own hair - although it's mostly on his manly chest now - and stealth-like in his entry into his favourite bosveld watering hole, 'FRED' is clearly a legend in his own laager |
 | Gerhard Fourie - Gerhard Fourie is a South African who is on a five-year working stint in Japan as the senior manager for brand and communication for global overseas markets at Nissan Motor Company. Fourie’s responsibilities cover markets across South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. |
| Gino Cosme - Gino Cosme runs social media strategy consultancy Cosmedia, when not training or speaking on the local corporate circuit |
| Gordon Patterson - With over 25 years experience in the media industry, Gordon Patterson is MD of Starcom and an active and outspoken media professional well-known for his passion for insight/strategy and creativity. He is currently deputy president of the ABC and a past chairman and active member of the Advertising Media Forum (AMF). |
 | Grant Shippey - Grant is a technophilic, tie-averted, professional loudmouth. He is now the controlling shareholder and CEO of the professional digital solutions stable, Amorphous. |
 | Harry Trisos - Harry Trisos of Mobilety has been involved in the marketing of telemedia for the past 15 years. Commencing with Telkom and the 087 industry in the early 90s, he has been at the forefront of developments in value-added content throughout this period, working with some of the leading service providers in this sector.
Harry has also provided media marketing services to almost every major publication in the country. |
 | Herman Manson - Herman Manson is a business journalist showcasing South African design talent on his blog MarkLives! (www.marklives.com) |
 | Issa Sikiti da Silva - Issa Sikiti da Silva is a freelance journalist and short stories writer whose work has been published in local and foreign publications, both in English and French. He contributes to Bizcommunity.com as a news writer. |
| James Campbell - James Campbell is a consultant with WebAd Internet Advertising: design and development consultants and search engine specialists |
| James Siddall - James Siddall is a media consultant and journalist, writing for titles such as The Weekender, Sunday Independent and Sunday Tribune. Industrial Relations Specialists (IRS), which specialises in outsourcing, industrial relations, human resources, contract cleaning and security solutions, is one of his clients. |
 | Janice Spark - Janice Spark is a director, and partner of Idea Engineers. She has more than 20 years of marketing, sales and advertising experience across a range of leading global and South African brands. |
| Janyce Currin - Janyce Currin is head of Currin’t Events (www.currintevents.co.za), a BEE events company primarily servicing the corporate market with a 10-year proven track record of well-managed events that meet clients’ objectives and specific needs |
| Jean Moncrieff - Jean Moncrieff is CEO of Emerge Africa and may be emailed on Jean.moncrieff@emergeafrica.co.za |
 | Jo Duxbury - Jo Duxbury has been providing a platform for marketers to find over 3800 industry freelancers since she launched her company, Freelancentral, in early 2006. An ex-suit, she also provides freelance writing/editing services to a small number of select clients. |
 | Johanna McDowell - Armed with considerable industry knowledge and experience, Johanna McDowell counsels clients and agencies around expectations in the advertising and marketing process. She is MD of the Independent Agency Search and Selection Company (IAS - www.agencyselection.co.za), a division of black-owned marketing services group Mazole Holdings. |
| John Bradfield - John Bradfield, BA (Communications) and MBA, has expertise in developing communication systems for companies. He runs workshops on communications. |
| Jon Bishop - Jon M Bishop (www.jonin60seconds.com) is a new media marketer that focuses on translating the latest technology platforms and trends into marketing and communications solutions |
| Karen Ashwin - Karen Ashwin is the founder and MD of The Event Production Company (www.theeventcompany.co.za, South Africa's event pioneer. Karen is considered one of the industry's leading personalities and with a 15-year track record, The Event Production Company having conceptualised and executed most of South Africa's largest and most innovative events. |
 | Katharina Scholtz - Katharina Scholtz is the GottaQuirk.com queen and content manager for Quirk eMarketing, the largest full service online marketing agency in Africa with clients including Sun International, Google, Warner Bro and Virgin Atlantic. With an undergraduate degree in film and media production and a post-graduate degree in brand strategy, Kat has a keen interest in the impact which online media has on communication and is at the forefront of corporate communication and consumer driven engagement. |
 | Keith Coats - Keith Coats is a director of TomorrowToday.biz, an organisation that helps companies identify the mega trends that will impact the people connected to their business - employees, customers and partners |
| Keith Schorah - Keith has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in sales and marketing within the IT, telecommunications and industrial sectors. He is presently MD for Aardvark Consulting and Communication, and runs numerous sales training, presentation and negotiation skills courses. |
| Lehan Stemmet - Lehan received his B.Sc degree at the University of the Freestate, earning academic merit bursaries for psychology and biochemistry. While and after completing his degree in biochemistry and microbiology, he earned some extra money doing temp work for too many companies to mention. |
| Lisa Cramer - Lisa Cramer is chief sales and marketing officer for FirstWave in Atlanta, Georgia, US, providing on-demand marketing automation solutions that generate, score and nurture leads for B2B marketers |
 | Louise Marsland - Louise Marsland is editor-in-chief and brand strategist of AdVantage magazine (www.bizcommunity.com/advantage) and the former editorial director of Bizcommunity.com. Louise recently researched the sustainability of the B2B media sector for her Masters in Commerce degree: strategy and organisational dynamics, through the Leadership Centre of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. |
 | Malcolm McDonald - Professor Malcolm McDonald, until recently, Professor of Marketing and Deputy Director Cranfield School of Management with special responsibility for E-Business, is Chairman of six companies and spends much of his time working with the operating boards of the world's biggest multinational companies, such as IBM, Xerox, BP and the like, in most countries in the world, including Japan, USA, Europe, South America, ASEAN and Australasia. He has written thirty eight books, including the best seller "Marketing Plans; how to prepare them; how to use them" and many of his papers have been published.
Professor Malcolm McDonald will be giving a series of three one-day classes: • Strategic Marketing Planning • Competitive Marketing Strategy • Key Account Management. |
| Marc Ashton - Marc Ashton (marc@rival.co.za) is managing editor of local manufacturing publication - ManufacturingHub.co.za (www.manufacturinghub.co.za), which is aimed at the South African food, pharmaceutical, chemical and cosmetic manufacturing industries |
| Marcus Brewster - Marcus Brewster is the chairman of Marcus Brewster Publicity (MBP), the most awarded corporate and commercial PR firm in South Africa and the founder of Method PR |
 | Marion Scher - Marion Scher (www.mediamentors.co.za) is an award-winning journalist, lecturer, media trainer and consultant with 20 years experience in the industry |
 | Mike Abel - Mike Abel, former COO of Ogilvy South Africa, is now CEO of M&C Saatchi, Australia. During his many years in the industry, Mike handled some of the bluest chip brands in South Africa. |
| Mike Freedman - Mike Freedman, a doyen of the advertising and branding community, is founder of Freedthinkers (www.freedthinkers.com) which has offices in Johannesburg (at Turbine Hall in Newtown) and Cape Town. He was a prominent copywriter at some of the big ad agencies in London and here before helping form ad agency Freedman and Rossi, and then Freedthinkers. |
| Mike Stopforth - Mike Stopforth is a Web 2.0 entrepreneur, writer and speaker. He heads up Cerebra (www.cerebra.co.za) – South Africa’s dedicated social and mobile media company, is a co-founder of blog aggregator Afrigator (www.afrigator.com) and a founder of the 27 Dinner movement (www.27dinner.com). |
 | Naseem Javed - Naseem Javed, recognised as a world authority on corporate image and global name identities, is a harsh critic of casual and accidental naming. He is a dynamic speaker on corporate image and branding issues, and is also the author of Naming for Power. |
| Patrick Carmody - Patrick Carmody is an independent strategist who has worked at leading communications agencies in South Africa and the UK. He also heads the field of branding and marketing at Vega the Brand Communications School, Durban. |
| Paul Jacobson - Paul Jacobson is a web and digital media lawyer working in Johannesburg and is the principal attorney and founder of the new media law firm, Jacobson Attorneys (http://webtechlaw.com). Paul speaks at universities and conferences about new media and the law and writes about these issues (and others) on his firm's website. |
| Prof Roger Sinclair - Dr Roger Sinclair is Professor Emeritus at Wits University and MD of brand valuation company, BrandMetrics (www.brandmetrics.com), which is partnered with The Disruption Consultancy, a TBWA group company |
 | Richard Clarke - Richard Clarke founded Just Ideas, an ideas factory and implementation unit. He specialises in spotting opportunities, building ideas and watching them fly. |
| Richard Mulvey - Richard Mulvey (www.www.richardmulvey.com) is the author of 11 motivational and business books and speaks on a wide range of business topics. |
 | Roger Hislop - Roger Hislop is strategist and lead copywriter at Sentient Communications (www.sentientcommunications.co.za), and heads up Sentient Digital, the new online and social media division. Born in Joburg, he started off as an electrical engineer before taking a sharp left-turn into technology and business journalism, and then moving further into marketing communications. |
| Rose Setshoge - Rose Setshoge’s wealth of talent includes marketing, communications, journalism, advertising and research. She completed a media planning course at the AAA School of Advertising in Cape Town. |
| Rudi Kok - Rudi Kok is the master of viral |
| Russell Norton - Russell Norton is an attorney with the intellectual property law firm Spoor & Fisher. He practices in the field of trade mark matters generally, in particular trade mark searches, trade mark registrations, litigation and anti-counterfeiting. |
 | Sally Falkow - Sally Falkow APR is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and Research Chair for the Society for New Communication Research. She is now the official blogger for the Daily 'Dog, the leading source of PR views news and tools in the US. |
 | Sean Inggs - During my years of employment I have been actively involved in all aspects of administration and client servicing functions.
I enjoy new challenges and approach them with the necessary urgency and diligence that is required. I have the utmost self-confidence in rising to the challenge of any position as well as successfully embracing myself in all its functionality’s. |
 | Shiru Githiomi - Shiru Githiomi is MD of Human Element Inc, organisers of the 'Lifestyle SA Festival: Celebrating Black!' www.lifestylesafestival.co.za. |
 | Sid Peimer - Sid Peimer is the ‘strategist at large’ for the full service agency www.behp.co.za He always focuses on ‘the one thing’; however, what that ‘one thing’ is varies from minute to minute |
| Simangaliso Zwane - Simangaliso Zwane is the website content manager for the official 2010 FIFA World Cup country website in South Africa (www.sa2010.gov.za). He is a journalism post-graduate, specialising in online publishing and content, and website development. |
 | Simone Puterman - Simone Puterman is assisant editor at Bizcommunity.com. After majoring in Psychology and Linguistics at Rhodes University, and then completing her Honours in Psychology, she has been in the world of B2B publishing for over 12 years. |
 | Sindy Peters -
Sindy Peters is content manager on Bizcommunity.com's Africa Marketing and Medical portals and is one of the contributors on the BizLounge |
 | Stephen Newton - Formerly the Google head of analytics and commerce for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Stephen Newton is the new country manager for Google South Africa. Stephen is an accomplished business leader who has spent nearly a decade working in the online space, where he has been responsible for growing and leading top on-line companies. |
| Terry Behan - Terry Behan is the CEO of The Fearless Executive, a brand agency specialising in aligning brand promise with brand delivery www.thefearlessexecutive.com). |
 | Terry Levin - Terry Levin is the custodian of Off the Shelf Marketing (www.offtheshelf.co.za), whose mission is the creation of new global African empires via the creation of iconic Pan-African product and brand development solutions. Terry is a regular contributor of events coverage and opinion to Bizcommunity.com. |
 | Thabani Khumalo - Thabani Khumalo is a passionate researcher, reader, writer and an analyst who is MD of Think Tank Marketing Services; a management and marketing communications consultancy, chair of Youth Shaping Their Destiny; a communication specialist for the KwaZulu-Natal Local Government Association; and communication adviser to eThekwini mayor councillor Obed Mlaba. He has a BA Hons (labour relations) and MA in human resources management (Rand Afrikaans University). |
 | Tiffany Markman - Tiffany Markman (www.tiffanymarkman.co.za) is a highly opinionated freelance copywriter, copy editor and corporate trainer/writing coach who has worked for over 180 clients in South Africa and across the world. She hates misplaced apostrophes. |
| Tshepiso Seopa - Tshepiso Seopa was a junior journalist at Bizcommunity.com. |
| Tyler Reed - Tyler Reed is a young entrepreneur and blogger (www.tylerreed.co.za) |
| Vivian Warby - Vivian Warby is a senior freelance journalist for Bizcommunity.com in Cape Town |
| Walter Pike - Walter Pike is the head of the faculty of marketing and advertising at the AAA School of Marketing, a thought leader, public speaker and founder of PiKe Strategic (www.pike.co.za), a marketing strategy and branding consultancy based in Johannesburg |
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