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.
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!!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Women in Marketing (WIM) CIC are pleased to announce the 12th annual Global Women in Marketing Awards – recognising and celebrating the achievements of women in the marketing, advertising and communications sectors around the world. The prestigious awards are open to global entries, with previous winners hailing from across Africa, the USA, South America, the Middle East and Asia. The awards ceremony will take place in November 2022 at an exclusive venue in central London
According to The World Bank, Africa leads the way on female entrepreneurship as the only region in the world with more female than male entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, they also face the most challenges when it comes to seeking funding and support to scale their business. In the second edition of our Women in Marketing Africa #RealTalkSeries, we took a deeper look into these challenges real-world perspective from three female founders from the continent. Charles Lee Mathews (they/them) Publisher and CEO of Inc.Africa, steered an insightful conversation with Moky Makura, Executive Director of Africa No Filter; Catherine Young, Founder of Thinkroom Consulting and Managing Partner of GrindstoneXL Ventures; and Mamela Luthuli, Founder and CEO of Take Note Information Technology, on their journeys into entrepreneurship, as well as the peaks of how they've scaled their businesses and potholes they’ve faced when operating in an environment not necessarily wired to support them.