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By Leigh Andrews, Women in Africa Advisor and Contributor Historically, initiatives around gender equality and equity have been owned and driven by women. But we cannot move forward by leaving 50% of the population out of the conversation, as the potential to be great allies in our quest for achieving gender balance. That’s why the third and final edition of Women in Marketing Africa #RealTalkSeries for 2022 brought men to the table, because all the conversations on gender equality cannot bring about real change without including men.

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Welcome to #WiMMeets - a series of short interviews with marketing leaders from across Africa and around the world. The series will present a different side to senior professionals with the aim to share the things that matter to them and inspire others. In this interview we sat down with Esther Kiringa Muiruri, Group Marketing Director for Smart Applications International, a secure ICT services provider in Kenya with offices in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Somaliland, South Sudan, Rwanda, Malawi and Zambia. Having worked with Smart Applications over the last 12 years, Esther has played different key roles from inception in establishing the revolutionary smart, automated medical scheme management solution using biometric-controlled smart cards serving over 1.5 million customers in over 10 countries across Africa.

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Welcome to #WiMMeets - a series of short interviews with marketing leaders from across Africa and around the world. The series will present a different side to senior professionals with the aim to share the things that matter to them and inspire others. In this interview we sat down with Victoria Henry, Head of Group Marketing for Alphawave Group. Victoria is a B2B technology marketing and communications leader with over 20 years’ experience. Currently Head of Group Marketing at Stellenbosch based technology investment company, Alphawave Group, responsible for group marketing and supporting the companies in the portfolio as Fractional CMO.

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The 2022 Global WiM Award shortlist has been announced and as we prepare for the Awards Ceremony which is set to take place very soon, we shine a spotlight on the amazing shortlisted women from across the continent. For the eighth edition of the Africa Spotlight Series we speak to Mai Salama, Founding Partner of Creative Industry Egypt and Managing Partner of The Worx for Events, Egypt.

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The 2022 Global WiM Award shortlist has been announced and as we prepare for the Awards Ceremony which is set to take place very soon, we shine a spotlight on the amazing shortlisted women from across the continent. For the seventh edition of the Africa Spotlight Series we speak to Gqibelo Dandala, Executive Director for One to One Africa, South Africa.

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The 2022 Global WiM Award shortlist has been announced and as we prepare for the Awards Ceremony which is set to take place very soon, we shine a spotlight on the amazing shortlisted women from across the continent. For the sixth edition of the Africa Spotlight Series we speak to Angela Chandy, Executive Head of PR and Corporate Relations at Cassava Technologies, South Africa.

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The 2022 Global WiM Award shortlist has been announced and as we prepare for the Awards Ceremony which is set to take place very soon, we shine a spotlight on the amazing shortlisted women from across the continent. For the fifth edition of the Africa Spotlight Series we speak to Mphothe Elizabeth Mokwena, Marketing Director of Homecare Africa for Unilever, South Africa.

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The 2022 Global WiM Award shortlist has been announced and as we prepare for the Awards Ceremony which is set to take place very soon, we shine a spotlight on the amazing shortlisted women from across the continent. For the fourth edition of the Africa Spotlight Series we speak to Parusha Partab, Group Strategy Director of Wunderman Thompson, South Africa.

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The 2022 Global WiM Award shortlist has been announced and as we prepare for the Awards Ceremony which is set to take place very soon, we shine a spotlight on the amazing shortlisted women from across the continent. For the third edition of the Africa Spotlight Series we speak to Tarisai Moffat, Managing Director of Gateway Synergy, South Africa.

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The 2022 Global WiM Award shortlist has been announced and as we prepare for the Awards Ceremony which is set to take place very soon, we shine a spotlight on the amazing shortlisted women from across the continent. For the second edition of the Africa Spotlight Series we speak to Julia Raphaely, CEO for Paradigm Connect, South Africa.

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