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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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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 first edition of the Africa Spotlight Series we speak to Khangelani Dziba, Divisional Head of PR & Influencer Partnerships for RAPT Creative Agency, South Africa.

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Earlier this month the 2022 Global WiM Awards shortlist was announced, and what a year it has been for marketing professionals in the Africa region! Every year the bar is raised, with a record number of entries from across the continent the judges had a difficult time deciding who should make the shortlist - but we now have a list which has DOUBLED from the 2021 WiM Awards! A huge congratulations to all the shortlisted nominees, and a shout out to those on the African continent!!

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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 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.

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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 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.

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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.

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The Global Women in Marketing (WiM) Awards are back, this year celebrating 12 years of the WiM Awards and 18 years since the Global WiM network was founded in 2004. This year, like every year, we will recognise, reward and celebrate some amazing women (and male advocates) doing great work across the globe. The awards are for everyone no matter where in the world you’re based. Over the years we have received entries from the UK, USA, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Australia, Chile, Brazil, Switzerland, UAE, Russia, India, Croatia, Czech Republic, and Bermuda. If ever there was a year to put yourself forward and enter the awards, this is the one!

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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 Melanie Campbell, Marketing Director of Edward Snell & Co.

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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 Kamini Redhi, Marketing & Communications VP of Sub-Saharan Africa for Mastercard. She is the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Sub-Saharan Africa at Mastercard. Based in Johannesburg, Miss Redhi oversees the strategic direction, development, execution and performance of all marketing and communication activities for the payments’ technology company for the Sub-Saharan Africa division.

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