 | Amy Johnson - Amy Johnson is a member of the academic department at GetSmarter, an online education company.. |
 | Charisse Nel - More than eight years in advertising and marketing has shaped Charisse Nel, currently client service director at Arctic Circle, into a branding jack-of-all trades. Her passion for client relationships and inspiring her team are what keeps clients' brands heading in the right direction. |
 | Chris Moerdyk: @chrismoerdyk - 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. |
 | Craig Wilson - Craig Wilson is an ICT journalist and speaker based in Johannesburg. He currently works as a senior journalist at TechCentral, the South African source for technology news, reviews and opinion, and regularly provides insight into the technology industry for radio and television. |
 | Diane Charton - Diane Charton is MD of Acceleration Media (www.accelerationmedia.co.za), a strategic digital media consultancy solely focused on helping agencies and marketers make the most of the digital marketing channels. Diane oversees the growth of South Africa's leading online media strategy, planning and buying company, and helps clients to maximise their use of the Internet. |
 | Douglas Reed - Douglas Reed is joint CEO at Vox Telecom. He is innovative and entrepreneurial, and he strongly believes in - and is suited to - creating wealth rather than competing for it. |
 | Duncan McLeod: @mcleodd - Award-wining Duncan McLeod is the founder and editor of wwwTechCentral.co.za, South Africa's latest technology news site offering breaking news, in-depth analysis and opinion that launched in September 2009 (follow @TechCentral on Twitter). Before that, he was associate editor at the Financial Mail/FM. |
 | Gillian Rightford - Gillian Rightford's CV is a mix of marketing, advertising, and management. A former group MD of Lowe Bull, she started Adtherapy (www.adtherapy.co.za), a company that aims to improve the quality of advertising out there through better skills and better client/agency relationships. |
 | Herman Manson: @marklives - The inaugural Vodacom Social Media Journalist of the Year in 2011, Herman Manson (@marklives) is a freelance business journalist and media commentator who blogs at www.marklives.com and his writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines locally and abroad, including Bizcommunity.com. He also co-founded Brand magazine.. |
 | Johanna McDowell - Johanna McDowell counsels clients and agencies around expectations in the advertising, marketing process. She is CEO of the Independent Agency Search and Selection Company (IAS), a division of black-owned marketing services group Mazole Holdings. |
 | Marcela Ospina - Anthropologist Marcela Ospina Salcedo (www.marcelaospina.com) specialises in helping brands understand consumers from a cultural viewpoint. By using ethnography and drawing from neuropsychological principles, she advises on developing marketing plans, launching new products, and innovating communications strategies. |
 | Matt Rose - Matt Rose, an avid trend watcher with a passion for the people of South Africa, is a strategic planner at Publicis Groupe Johannesburg, specialising in market research, shopper marketing and behavioural psychology. He brings a grounded yet often controversial approach to uncovering consumer insights. |
 | 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 and Domination, the GTLD Name Game. |
 | Reghardt Marais - Reghardt Marais is the head of project management at Quirk (www.quirk.biz) - this makes a lot of sense since he's also juggling three kids and a wife. He spends his days making sure his team keeps work running smoothly and according to plan. |
 | Tiffany Markman - Tiffany Markman (www.tiffanymarkman.co.za) is a highly opinionated freelance copywriter, copy editor and writing trainer who has worked for over 180 clients in South Africa and across the world. She is an EMPOWERDEX-certified EME who hates misplaced apostrophes and dangling modifiers but loves pizza and pina coladas. |
 | Walter Pike - Walter Pike (@walterpike), the founder of PiKE | New Marketing (www.pike.co.za), consults to agencies and brands in learning how to build brands and businesses in the connected world. He founded and runs the Digital Academy (www.digitalacademy.co.za) to equip people to be successful in this world.. |
 | Wikus Engelbrecht - Wikus Engelbrecht is a marketing writer, journalist and media liaison at GraphicMail (www.graphicmail.co.za; @GraphicMail), an international email and mobile marketing service provider. Since 2003, his professional career in language and media has spanned the film, print advertising, magazine publishing, web development and online content industries. |
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