26 September 2022
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 Owen Inyang, CMO & Co-Founder of Juststandout, an Electrical and Mechanical company, pioneering Renewable Energy solutions across Africa. She is also Treasurer for the Renewable Energy Association of Nigeria. Owen spent the first half of her career in the Information Technology sector (Which she constantly refers to as her first love) providing invaluable sales and marketing expertise to tech giants locally and globally, notably Cisco and MTN.
11 September 2022
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 Natasha Maharaj, Marketing Director of Distell. She is a seasoned marketer with over 19 yrs of global marketing experience, having worked for multinationals such as Unilever, Nestle and PepsiCo Simba and in her latest tenure, Distell. Her career path has taken her from South Africa to Switzerland and Singapore and exposed her to a range of cultures and markets in Asia, Latin America and Europe.
Women in Marketing (WIM) CIC are pleased to announce Women in Marketing Africa (WiM Africa) is for the second year running, partnering with the International Advertising Association (IAA) on Africa Rising 5 – an IAA Leadership Conference on the 4th – 5th October 2022 in Accra, Ghana. WiM Africa joins Brand Finance as strategic partners, alongside sponsors Google, CNN and MTN of the 5th IAA Africa Rising event - the region’s most anticipated marketing communications and advertising conference will bring together the very best in the industry over a two-day period with IAA Global ExCo and Board meetings taking place on subsequent days.