“This conference is pure class“

Ann Nurock, Partner at Relationship Audits and Management

SPEAKERS

We are working hard to make sure you get up close and personal with the very best local and global thought leaders.

We are proud to confirm the following speakers.

DONOVAN GOLIATH

MC

Comedian/Content Creator/Former Adman

Ciko Thomas

Group Managing Executive: Nedbank Retail and Business Banking

Topic: To be confirmed.

Khensani Nobanda

Group Executive: Group Marketing and Corporate Affairs

Topic: UpClose&Personal with Kensi. 10 minutes. Ten Insights.

Mteto Nyati

Chairman of Wazo Investments

Topic: People centric leadership.

LUCA GALLARELLI

Group CEO of TBWA\South Africa

Topic: To be confirmed.

Shukri Toefy

Entrepreneur/Global Speaker

Topic: Up Close with Your Inner Entrepreneur.

Getting UpClose&Personal with the youth!

A session facilitated by South Africa’s leading youth agency, Bravado.

Ann Nurock

Senior Partner: Relationship Audits and Management

Topic: Up close and personal or miles apart? Optimising the client/agency relationship.

DOUG PLACE

Chief Marketing Officer of Nando’s Africa, Middle East, and South Asia. 2023 MASA Chairperson

Topic: To be confirmed.

Dale Hefer

IMC CEO

Topic: Awarding of Bursaries and Conference Close.

Nkgabiseng Motau

Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Think Creative Africa

Topic: Up close and personal or miles apart? Optimising the client/agency relationship.

BRIAN MTONGANA

Executive Creative Director: Woolworths Marketing

Topic: To be confirmed

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DONOVAN GOLIATH

Comedian/Content Creator/Former Adman

Donovan is an award-winning content creator, sought after MC, television presenter and celebrated stand-up comedian.

A respected creative, Donovan has delivered several master classes on marketing, design and creativity and was the host and an ambassador for the Loeries for 3 consecutive years.

Ciko Thomas

Group Managing Executive: Nedbank Retail and Business Banking

Ciko Thomas holds a BSc from the University of Cape Town, an MBA from University of the Witwatersrand and an AMP from Harvard in the USA. As Group Managing Executive of Nedbank Retail and Business Banking (RBB), he combines his comprehensive marketing and management experience with his strong strategic insights and passion for people to lead the bank’s largest business cluster, in delivering compelling banking solutions that meet clients’ needs while contributing significantly to the group’s success.

Ciko joined Nedbank in January 2010 as Group Executive of Group Marketing, Communications and Corporate Affairs, bringing with him the diverse experience he had gained at such reputable brands as Unilever, M-Net, SAB, Absa and Barloworld. In the same year, he was made Managing Executive of Consumer Banking in RBB, before taking up his current executive leadership role in 2016. Under his strong leadership and guidance, RBB has gone from strength to strength, steadily growing its customer base and market share, while garnering numerous accolades, not least the 2020 International Banker Award for Best Innovation in Retail Banking, Most Innovative Retail Banking App in South Africa in 2020 and Best Retail Bank in South Africa for two consecutive years.

His belief in the potential of people is matched only by his recognition of the power of technology and innovation. In his role, he works tirelessly to bring the three together seamlessly to help drive the bank’s ‘Digital First’ aspiration, exceed the expectations of retail and business clients and provide access to financial services for all South Africans.

Khensani Nobanda

Group Executive: Group Marketing and Corporate Affairs

Khensani Nobanda is the Group Executive for Marketing and Corporate Affairs at Nedbank Group. As both the executive in charge of marketing, and a member of the Nedbank Group executive leadership, she ensures the cohesive and consistent alignment between marketing messaging, brand positioning and business objectives across the group, while also providing strategic input into various Nedbank structures, committees, and partnerships.

Khensani joined Nedbank in September 2017, as Executive Head of Group Marketing, before being promoted to her current role, and the Nedbank Group Exco, in May 2018. Her more than 20-year marketing career has afforded her invaluable experience in several leading South African and multinational organisations. After starting out as an assistant brand manager at Unilever, she rose through the ranks to eventually head up the Skin Category for Unilever in Africa, Middle East, and Turkey. This was followed by various leadership and executive roles in Diageo, South African Breweries and Vodacom, before joining Nedbank.

She is passionate about brands and the potential they have to deliver tangible value to consumers, and more broadly to society, by being purpose led and value driven.

Khensani has a BCom from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MBA from GIBS and Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School. She is a member of the board of Effie Awards South Africa, a regular member of the judging panel for the Loeries and Bookmarks Awards, and a sought-after public speaker. Kensi has amassed several accolades in recognition of her contribution to the industry, including top honours as winner of the Loeries 2021 “Marketing Leadership & Innovation” award and the “Marketing Industry Leader of the Year” by AdFocus.

Mteto Nyati

Chairman of Wazo Investments

Mteto Nyati invests in unlisted medium sized companies that operate in high growth areas. He is the published author of the best seller “Betting on a Darkie”. In 2021 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Johannesburg’s College of Business and Economics.

Mteto is a former group CEO of Altron and CEO of MTN South Africa. He recently joined the board of Telkom and Eskom as an independent non-executive director.

Mteto is passionate about people and technology.

Luca Gallarelli

Group CEO of TBWA\South Africa

Luca Gallarelli is Group CEO of TBWA\South Africa, a multi-disciplinary group of agencies spanning the specialist to integrated spectrum. Over the last 20 years, Gallarelli has led complex multi-disciplinary teams, honing a natural ability to drive growth through organisational cohesion.

Two years into his role, Gallarelli was drawn to TBWA\ by the operational and creative potential in the collective’s multi-agency structure, including, TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, GRID Worldwide, Yellowwood, Magna Carta and Sting Content. Leading the agency group through a period of unprecedented change, the agency collective has navigated the uncertainty emerging a stronger, more cohesive and connected collective standing as South Africa’s premier creative agency group. This has been achieved through forging an integrated operating dynamic literate in technology and rooted in the market and cultural idiom of change.

Prior to joining TBWA\South Africa, Gallarelli was Managing Director of Ogilvy Cape Town for four years and Group Managing Director of Ogilvy South Africa for two years where he led 700 multidisciplinary advertising professionals across Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. A key achievement in this role was his successful consolidation of 14 operating companies into dynamically integrated campuses covering PR, digital, advertising and shopper across South Africa.

Gallarelli is passionate about the creative product that works – measurably. Getting this right means building partnerships that provide the platform for the best thinking and work to emerge, fuelled by the power of creativity and collaboration.

A sports-mad dad, Gallarelli is a passionate and proud product of Gqeberha and the Eastern Cape.

Shukri Toefy

Entrepreneur/Global Speaker

Shukri Toefy is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategic advisor, investor, board director, and the founder of a number of businesses.

He holds a degree in Law and Politics from the University of Cape Town, lectures at several universities around the world, and is an Entrepreneurship Expert at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

As a global keynote speaker, he has inspired and advised leaders at numerous multinational organisations including NASA, Google, YouTube and at Cannes Lions. Shukri is a thought leader in the areas of strategy, leadership, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategic communication and emerging markets.

As a strategic advisor, Shukri has consulted to some of the most exciting brands and organisations in the world, as well as serving as a Special Advisor to the G20 World Policy Forum.

Recognised as one of the top creative minds, Shukri has won awards in Amsterdam, LA, Rome, Cannes and is an EY World Entrepreneur finalist. He has been profiled in various publications including Forbes, Huffington Post, GQ, Marketing Week, Creativity and AdAge, and has been named a Top 40 CEO by Under40CEOs, and one of Fast Company’s Most Productive People.

Ann Nurock

Senior Partner: Relationship Audits and Management

Ann is a Partner at Relationship Audits and Management, a global consultancy that measures and optimizes client /agency relationships. Her proprietary Radar tool is used by 30 corporates globally and as a result she interacts with over 80 agencies of all disciplines

Ann spent 25 years plus in the advertising industry as CEO of Grey Advertising South Africa, and head of the Africa region followed by President and CEO of Grey Canada.

In her spare time, she covers the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for the SA Creative Circle together with Bizcommunity.com, and for the last 7 years has been imparting the latest trends in marketing, business and creativity to all sectors of business

Doug Place

Doug Place is the Chief Marketing Officer of Nando’s Africa, Middle East, and South Asia.

He has received more than 100 international and national marketing and advertising awards including 3 Loeries Grand Prix awards. Most recently Nando’s won the Marketing Organisation of the Year award at the Marketing Achievement Awards where he was also a finalist for Marketer of the Year. In 2019 Doug was named the most admired Marketing professional in South Africa in the Scopen report and was runner up again in 2021. Last year Nando’s was voted the most admired brand to work on in the media and advertising industry. In 2018 Doug was awarded the Marketing & Innovation Award at The Loeriestm. Destiny Man Magazine rated him as one of South Africa’s ‘Young and Powerful’ industry leaders in 2015

Doug is a Wits graduate and holds a B.Com Honours Degree (cum laude), and was the top graduate student. He is also a registered Chartered Marketer (CMSA), and sits on the MASA Board.

DALE HEFER

IMC CEO

Dale is a best-selling author and former SA Businesswoman of the Year.

Dale started through-the-line agency Chillibush from a suburban garage in 1998. The agency was ranked a top three small South African agency by Finweek and the Financial Mail. Dale sold Chillibush in 2014 at which time it was billing more than R100m per year.

During her time running the agency Dale was a finalist in the Ernst and Young Global Emerging Entrepreneur Awards as well as in South Africa’s Most Empowered Females in Government and Business Awards. She was also SA Businesswoman of the Year.

She is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling marketing book “From Witblits to Vuvuzelas – Marketing in the New South Africa”.

The Sunday Times reviewed the book saying, “There is something special about reading an uncompromisingly South African book that could take its place with the best of its genre on international bookshelves”.

Her second book, “Hustling, Happiness and a Blow-Up Doll Named Percy” was published by Jonathan Ball in 2021 and launched to critical acclaim.

Dale acquired the IMC in 2018 and re-launched it in 2019 as the Nedbank IMC. Under her management, the conference has become Africa’s leading marketing conference.

She has successfully completed the Comrades, Two Oceans, Argus and 94.7 endurance events and is the mother of 13-year-old twins.

Nkgabiseng Motau

Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Think Creative Africa

Having worked on local and global campaigns for some of the world's most loved brands at the helm of Africa’s top multinational agencies, Nkgabiseng Motau co-founded Think Creative Africa where she is currently Chief Creative Officer. Think is a through-the-line creative agency that combines truly African creativity and data-led insights to generate ideas that solve business problems and impact society.

With over a decade of experience in the communications industry, Nkgabiseng has collected many creative accolades including a gold Pendoring Award for the branding design of the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital in Johannesburg and a Gold Loerie Award in the category of Effective Creativity on behalf of Coca-Cola. During her time working on the Coca-Cola account, she created one of the only campaigns to come out of Africa and be adopted in over 95 countries around the world.

Under her creative leadership at Think, the agency has worked in service of bluechip companies such as Multichoice, Vodacom and Metropolitan Life to name a few.

Nkgabiseng is a member of the Creative Circle SA EXCO Board and has served as a juror for organizations such as ADC, One Show, Ad Stars and Cannes Lions. Locally, she has been a recurring judge for Loeries, Pendorings, Creative Circle, Cannes Young Lions and is a member of the ABInbev Braintrust.

Brian Mtongana

Executive Creative Director: Woolworths Marketing

Brian Mtongana is the recently appointed Executive Creative Director for Woolworths South Africa. A creative custodian of the Woolworths brand for the past 13 years, Brian’s oversight of our brand expression and execution now extends beyond his design and packaging remit to include the integration of all creative touchpoints.

Playing a key leadership role in our in-house creative agency since its inception, and working across all creative portfolios and channels, Brian brings an holistic creative perspective of enormous value in our quest to deliver a seamless omnichannel Woolworths brand experience for our people and our customers.

Recognised locally and internationally, he was one of the Loeries Awards Jury Presidents for 2022. Brian has accumulated rich and deep experience and skill in creative design and brand building over his career to date. Cutting his teeth designing the patch for Mark Shuttleworth’s spacesuit, Brian joined Woolworths in 2010, where an early project was close collaboration with international design heavyweights Vince Frost and the late Massimo Vignelli in the development and implementation of our refreshed corporate identity. Brian’s extensive and expansive Woolworths brand knowledge contributes significantly to our continued, and amplified, connection with current and future customers.

Brian embodies our Woolies values and has earned the respect and admiration of many across the business, from junior level to our most senior executives as he has brought fresh consistency, a cool, calm and considered perspective, and is prince of the punchy pun!

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SPEAKERS

We are working hard to make sure you get up close and personal with the very best local and global thought leaders.

We are proud to confirm the following speakers.

DONOVAN GOLIATH

MC

Ciko Thomas

Khensani Nobanda

Mteto Nyati

LUCA GALLARELLI

Shukri Toefy

Getting UpClose&Personal with the youth!

Ann Nurock

DOUG PLACE

Dale Hefer

Nkgabiseng Motau

BRIAN MTONGANA

Africa’s most exclusive marketing club!

DONOVAN GOLIATH

Ciko Thomas

Khensani Nobanda

Mteto Nyati

Luca Gallarelli

Shukri Toefy

Ann Nurock

Doug Place

DALE HEFER

Nkgabiseng Motau

Brian Mtongana

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