 | 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. |
| Don Paul - Don Paul is among the leading authorities on Customer Relationship Marketing in the Western Cape |
| Dr Pieter Streicher - Dr Pieter E Streicher, MD of wireless application service provider Bulksms.com, also sits on the management committee of the Wireless Application Service Provider Association (WASPA) |
 | 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) |
 | 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. |
 | Herman Manson - Herman Manson is a business journalist showcasing South African design talent on his blog MarkLives! (www.marklives.com) |
 | Howard Badler - Howard Badler has trained and consulted to the Justice Department of the Northwest Province and a variety of companies in a number of industries |
 | 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. |
| 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. |
| John Boe - American John Boe presents a wide variety of motivational and sales-oriented keynotes and seminar programs for sales meetings and conventions. John is a recognised sales trainer and business motivational speaker with an impeccable track record in the meeting industry. |
 | Lee-Ann Vermaak - Lee-Ann heads the email management at Acceleration, covering both US and South African markets. |
| 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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 |