Executive Academic Head: Faculty of Marketing, Supply Chain and Business Management, IMM Graduate School of Marketing
Communication & Production Manager, Heritage Branding & Marketing Communications Botswana
Head of Social Media & B-BBEE Partner at Brand Cartel Creative, Brand Cartel
Manager in the office of the CEO, Brand South Africa
Angela is passionate about building brands ‘from the inside out’. At Interbrand Sampson Inside she was responsible for managing and directing the specialist ‘Inside’ field of brand engagement on the African continent and within the network. Her ethos is that good brands only become great brands when employees believe in them and are encouraged to engage in brand building. Angela believes that brand engagement is predominantly about ‘listening’ and that brand engagement methodologies should constantly be reviewed, rethought, and aligned to best practices globally.
Angela completed her BA Communications (Honours) and her master’s degree in communications at the University of Johannesburg. Her career started with Leo Burnett where she was a blue-chip Accounts Director.
From here she moved to Hunt Lascaris, followed by Absa Bank where she was appointed General Manager: Brand Marketing, with the responsibility of amalgamating four banks into one new brand. Within 5 years Absa became the most loved financial services brand in South Africa. She was subsequently appointed General Manager for Group Communication and Public Affairs at Absa. During this time, Absa won the ‘Best Company to Work for’ over two consecutive years. Angela launched ABC, her brand-marketing consultancy, prior to starting Interbrand Sampson Inside. ABC clients included Standard Bank Group, Exxaro, City of Joburg, Transaction Capital, ATM Solutions Group, University of Johannesburg, SDT, Silverbridge Holdings, Northwest University, Ashwin Willemse, City of Tshwane.
Specialties: Marketing strategy, brand strategy, brand engagement, employee engagement, executive brand engagement, communication strategy, organisational culture, pr and reputation management.
I am a Certified Marketing Communication Manager, Leadership Communications Manager, Business Communication expert and a Public Relations Executive. With a passion for shaping compelling narratives and
fostering brand resonance, I have a proven track record in crafting impactful Marketing communication strategies. My expertise lies in the dynamic realms of Leadership Communications, Marketing Communications, Brand Development, and Brand Positioning.
Currently serving as the current CEO of Skyline PR and Corporate Communications Agency, I lead transformative initiatives that elevate organizational presence amidst intensifying market competition. My focus
on Corporate Branding, brand visibility and brand positioning allows me to excel in orchestrating comprehensive strategies that redefine brand identities and enhance reputations. I am also proficient in Crisis Management, Stakeholder Relationship Building, and Digital Communications, enabling organizations to navigate challenges with grace and innovation.
Fadzai Mufunde is a highly accomplished Strategic Communication, Brand, Marketing, PR and Production Professional at Heritage Branding & Marketing Communications, with over 6 years of experience in her current role.
Fadzai has a proven track record of developing and implementing successful communication plans that drive engagement, build relationships, and achieve organizational goals.
Fadzai’s area of expertise lies in crafting impactful messages, service delivery, and forging lasting relationships with clients. She brings with her a wide range of skills in writing, research, communication, leadership, decision-making, strategy, marketing awareness, social and cultural trends, photography, typography, printing techniques, and creativity.
Fadzai’s areas of speciality are in strategic communication, traditional & digital marketing, content creation, brand management, media relations, agency management, crisis communication, reputation, events and project management.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Communications, and actively seeks opportunities to expand her skill set through attending workshops, conferences, and webinars.
Outside work, she is passionate about her religion, traveling, cooking and engaging in activities that uplift communities.
Head of Photography, Videography and Social Media Services
Responsible for the maintenance of all websites including managing of all media, content, and copy. Integrating new solutions for better conversions and customer retention.
Strategizing ways of improvement for better efficiency and responsiveness of websites.
Testing of all brand-related products on desktop and mobile. This includes providing relevant feedback to all Development and QA teams for changes.
Involved in the social media teams with creating and coming up with campaigns and content for new products/services and ensuring that it is related to websites.
Working with conversions on coming up with strategies as well as implementation of ideas created for better conversion rates and tracks on product related brands.
Mpumelelo Zondi (Mpumi) is Head of Brand for Edelman Africa and Global Client lead, based in Johannesburg South Africa, He is charged with leading, managing and growing Edelman’s Brand business across the continent, while also helping some of Edelman’s global Clients expend into multiple markets across Europe and the Middle East. Leading Clients such as Unilever, Liberty, Bacardi and the worlds largest tea business, Ekaterra. Mpumi is using his experience in Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Advertising, Creative and entrepreneurship to help support Edelman’s brand Clients across the globe.
With an over 20 -year track record in communications, advertising & marketing. Starting his career at The Jupiter Drawing Room, working on the Nike account, then going on to manage Clients such as Castle Lite, Castle, Edgars, Old Mutual, Hollard and Santam insurance. He has worked at leading Advertising Agencies such as Ogilvy, Draft FCB, M&C Saatchi Abel and Joe Public.
Mpumi brings with him a wealth of Advertising, strategic and creative experience into the fast-evolving world of Public Relations at Edelman.
Having also answered the call of the entrepreneur, by partnering in a small digital and design start-up and co-founding Dona communications which went on to be part of the Bester Berg Slingers group in Cape Town. Mpumi hopes to make a long-lasting and meaningful contribution to the Edelman team.
MULEMWA MOONGWA CMM.CED. HMCC
is a Certified Meetings Strategist equipped with eighteen (18) years extensive experience in high level Government to Government (G2G), Government to Business (G2B) & Business to Business (B2B) engagements. As a casualty of the pandemic, Mulemwa pivoted into industry advocacy for the Meetings Industry and Tourism overall. She is currently working in repositioning the intra-Africa tourism conversation.
Tourism is the movement of people. Africa has 1.2 billion of them, how are we failing? Why are we more interested in travelling outside Africa than within? How best can Destination Africa be marketed internally and externally
Born in the Eastern Cape and residing in Johannesburg, Nande is a student of life who works as a marketer and whose career foundation is rooted in brand management.
She has led the launch of Fibre-To-The-Home at Vodacom from its infancy, patiently and passionately driving BTL fibre communications. She eventually launched the first integrated campaign which saw the portfolio win a Top Brands Sunday Times Award in the Fibre ISP category.
With experience in developing communication strategies and driving creative executions, she has also played a key role in the Youth segment as marketing support for the early careers programme. With a goal to positively shape how consumers engage with brands, Nande has been in the forefront in developing brand fundamentals as portfolio playbooks, naming conversions and messaging architecture. She finds absolute joy in seeing the behind the scenes work come to life in customer facing touchpoints.
Nande currently works as a Commercial Marketing/ Segment Manager at MTN and is primarily responsible for the development of customer fit propositions that are built on customer insights. Nande holds a Diploma in Business Administrations, Bcom in Marketing & Management Sciences, Bphil (Hons) in Marketing Management and an Enterprise & Technology Management certificate. She is passionate about inclusion, technology
and the promotion of unconventional ideas and believes these are key to the betterment of society.
Outside work, Nande prefers to spend her time with her husband and kids enjoying recreational activities.
Life Motto
“We are all in a space of influence to change our world for the better”
Sithembile is a prolific chartered marketer with over 22 years of marketing experience. She has extensive marketing experience in FMCG, global marketing, and Nation Branding marketing.
She is a prudent decision-maker and an inspiring leader that strives to build high performing teams.
She has held senior managerial positions from diverse companies and her experiences include developing and implementing impactful, successful, and sustainable brand strategies.
Sithembile completed her Marketing undergraduate qualification at Mangosuthu University of Technology in KZN. She has a Post Graduate National Diploma in Marketing and BPHIL Honours in Marketing through the Institute of Marketing Management (IMM) and a Masters in Commerce (MCOM) from MANCOSA.
She is also an Advisory board member of the CMO Council (Sub Saharan Africa) and City Nation Place where she continues to share her insights relating to dynamics in brand and marketing world.
Thebe Ikalafeng is a Hall of Fame global African branding authority and THE leading advocate for a brand-led African agenda recognized as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans. A trailblazing marketer, since being awarded a Marquette University American Marketing Association for
marketing excellence upon graduation in 1992 in the United States, he has made a sustained, distinguished and consequential contribution to branding and in reframing the African narrative for over 30 years. He is the founder BLG, a multi-disciplinary advisory group at the intersection
of strategy, creativity and intellectual property law; the founder of the seminal non-profit Brand Africa movement for a brand-led African agenda and the ‘Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands’ initiative which is widely referenced as the definitive barometer of branding in Africa. He has
received Lifetime Achievement awards by Financial Mail AdFocus and the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa. A champion of African travel and tourism, he has been to every country in Africa and every continent in the world from Cape to Cairo and the Arctic in Greenland to Antarctica; trekked the rare silverback gorillas on the Virunga mountains in Rwanda and Uganda; summitted Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Sinai, trekked the 116km long King Moshoeshoe II Walk in Lesotho, rode the historic 52 hour TAZARA train that links Tanzania and Zambia, skydived in Swakopmund, Namibia; and jumped the 216m high Bloukrans Bridge bunjee in South Africa, among his many breath-taking travels and adventures globally. He was born and lives in Africa and educated in the USA, Italy and South Africa. He holds BSc. MBA and LLM (Intellectual Property Law) degrees. A consummate contemporary pan-African, “Thebe is Africa,” (TedxGhana) and ‘foremost branding authority in Africa,’ (African Business) www.ikalafeng.africa
