 | 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. |
| Angus Robinson - Angus Robinson is the founder and CEO of Brandsh Media (www.brandsh.com), a mobile and social media company that includes mobile agency Brandsh and media business Mobmedia. Founded in early 2007, Brandsh works with clients such as Standard Bank, MNet, the JSE and the Bond Exchange of SA to develop and implement innovative mobile and social media campaigns. |
| BizPod/Interactive - BizPod/Interactive, the first of Bizcommunity.com's podcast ventures, aims to unpack all the latest trends in digital marketing and social media. BizPod/Interactive is hosted by Japie Swanepoel, founding partner of longtail (www.longtail.co.za) an online strategy company with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg. |
| Carole Kimutai - Carole Kimutai is from Nairobi, Kenya |
 | 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. |
 | Chris Roper - Formerly the editor-in-chief of www.24.com, Chris Roper is now editor of the Mail & Guardian Online |
| 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 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. |
| Eddie Groenewald - Eddie Groenewald is the CEO of mobile marketing company Multimedia Solutions (www.multimediasolutions.co.za). He has 18 years experience in the telecoms industry, of which more than a decade has been in the mobile sector. |
 | 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) |
| Gino Cosme - Gino Cosme runs social media strategy consultancy Cosmedia, when not training or speaking on the local corporate circuit |
 | Gisele Wertheim-Aymes - Gisele Wertheim-Aymes’ 19-year media career spans a broad range of experience, from editorial, marketing, publishing and advertising sales to media innovation and strategy. In the past two years, her focus shifted to innovation and she headed up the innovation portfolio at Avusa Media before joining First National Bank (www.fnb.co.za) as its head of Media in March 2008. |
| 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. |
 | Jacques van Niekerk - Jacques van Niekerk is CEO of Acceleration, the digital marketing specialists |
| 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. |
 | 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. |
| 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 |
 | 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. |
 | Lee-Ann Vermaak - Lee-Ann heads the email management at Acceleration, covering both US and South African markets. |
| Linda Ravenhill - Linda Ravenhill co-founded Digital Exception (www.digitalexception.co.za) in 2000 and together with business partner Elena Douvos, the company specialises in taking physical business into the online environment, offering the full spectrum of online services. These include strategy, IT development, community management and online marketing. |
 | 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. |
| 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 |
| Mark Parsons - After completing a degree in philosophy, Mark held a variety of positions in fields as diverse as consumer marketing, photo journalism and corporate communication. In 1996 Mark left the corporate world to join the newly formed Electric Ocean, with whom he worked for two years. |
 | Matthew Buckland - Matthew Buckland is GM of Publishing at 24.com. He's the former boss of the M&G Online and co-founder of blog aggregator Amatomu.com and group editorial blog Thought Leader. |
 | Melissa Attree - Melissa Attree is a marketer, social media strategist and blogger who is fascinated by the bright, shiny thing called the Internet. Read Melissa's blog at http://www.melissaattree.co.za. |
 | 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 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). |
| Mohammad Gawdat - Mohammad Gawdat is MD for emerging markets at Google, managing Google's sales and business operations in the countries of emerging Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. His biggest passion is emerging markets, considering the vast degree of cultural diversity and challenges it faces. |
 | 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. |
| Paul Luff - Paul Luff is country manager of SMC Networks South Africa, which specialises in solutions for the SMB/e, and the home |
| Pedro de Gouveia - Pedro de Gouveia is GM of Salient Strategic Advertising and Design, which opened its doors in March 2006. The agency has more than 80 years of accumulated management experience acquired from within the South African advertising and marketing industry. |
 | Peter Gilbert - Peter Gilbert is MD of HR Chally SA (www.challysa.co.za) - an international sales consulting company specialising in talent management and recruitment |
 | Richard Clarke - Richard Clarke founded Just Ideas, an ideas factory and implementation unit. He specialises in spotting opportunities, building ideas and watching them fly. |
| Rick Joubert - In April 2007 Rick Joubert led the creation of a dedicated mobile advertising business unit in Vodacom, one of the first mobile phone operators in the world to do so. He currently heads up the Vodacom Mobile Advertising business and also oversees Vodacom's initiatives in the mobile social networking space. |
 | 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. |
| Roger Strain - As MD and founder of Liquid Thought Business Solutions (www.liquidthought.co.za, Roger Strain draws on his over 15 years of experience in the local IT business solutions market. After obtaining a BCom degree from UCT, he started his career as an ERP implementation consultant, and progressed into sales, marketing and ultimately management in companies such as Datatec, JD Edwards and Deloitte & Touche. |
| 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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 |
| Stanley Edwards - Stanley Edwards is a partner at Platypus Productions and is reporting for Bizcommunity.com from MIPTV in Cannes, 16 - 20 April 2007. Half-day report back seminars will be held in Johannesburg on 8 May and in Cape Town on 10 May. |
 | 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 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. |
 | 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. |
| Titus Kaloki - Titus Kaloki is the editor of www.africanewsbreak.com.
He can be contacted on tkaloki@gmail.com. |
| 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) |
 | Vincent Maher - Vincent Maher is a social media strategist and the portfolio manager for social media at Vodacom. Previously he was the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online and co-founder of Amatomu.com, the South African blog aggregator and analytics system. |
| 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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