Online Retail World Africa - Speaker list

Most recently CEO of M&C Saatchi Group, Australia. Previously COO of Ogilvy South Africa. Agency Leader in South Africa award in 2006, by the Financial Mail. Abel has played a key role on some of South Africa and Australia’s most prized and successful brands including Volkswagen South Africa, BP, SAB Miller, Old Mutual, ANZ, Woolworths and...

Ryan is a founder and MD of NetFlorist, SA’s largest flower and gifting service. He is a co-founder of the South African Forum for Etailers and has been in the industry for 15 years’. He is an LLB graduate from the University of the Witwatersrand’

Executive Director of Industrial Logistics (ILS), Southern Africa’s most successful consultants in supply chain management – providing consulting services to industry in Africa, Europe & Australia. ILS is seen as the leaders in business strategy relating to supply chain excellence and business re-engineering with respect to logistics.

Zahir Cajee have been with the company for the past 10 years. Surtee Group, one of South Africa’s largest luxury clothing retailers. The company has been in existence for over 20 years and was founded by the Surtee brothers. The Surtee family business and passion has been handed down from generation to generation ensuring the continuation of its...

Experience extends to but not limited to managing organizations, corporate strategy development & and turnaround/change programmes implementation, restructuring and reorganization, finance and assets management, contracting & logistics, legal services, information technology, and human resources policies/disciplines and PR/administration.

Nikki has been a member of the DMMA for the past eight years, and has sat on the DMMA EXCO for the past four of these, initially in the capacity as Head of Marketing and then in the combined capacity as Deputy Chair and Head of Marketing. In 2010 Nikki was appointed as Chair of the Bookmarks Awards and in 2011 Chairwoman of both the DMMA and the...

Tony Da Fonseca started his career in the advertising and marketing sector with a locally owned agency. He rose to Managing Director within a few years and yearning to work on global accounts, Tony was instrumental in tying up an international alignment with Global communication giant, DDB to become DDB South Africa. With that came the opportunity ...

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Mike is the co-founder of Luxlife a luxury lifestyle, online concierge service and ecommerce business. Luxlife was founded in 2009 with Tiaan Rossouw. Mike is responsible for the online advertising, marketing and strategic direction of Luxlife. ike is also an acting Business Development Manager and co-founder of Amnicomm since 2005.Amnicomm is a...

Paul Galatis is the marketing director at Yuppiechef.co.za where he obsess about brand, design & most importantly, customer experience. He believes deeply that design, user experience, branding and customer experience are deeply intertwined and that, together with some good old hard work and good manners, they can change the world.

After gaining the experience required I together with my families support grew the business to become one of the largest independently owned retail companies in South Africa today bringing in sales of 200m usd. I have developed a passion through this university for vertical integration and diversification in all fields of business. Today we boast...

On January 1, 2008, Xavier Gobille was appointed as Renault South Africa's Managing Director. With a 73% increase in the local automotive market between 2003 and 2006, South Africa is considered an important market for Renault’s worldwide growth and Mr Gobille’s appointment coincides with the French group’s recent announcement that production of...

23 years Retail experience of which 21 of those years were mainly with the Edcon Group heading up Merchandise buying and planning divisions within the group from apparel, footwear, home textiles etc in Edgars, Sales House and Jet all the way to stationery and books within C N A. She since left Edcon and joined Kalahari as the Head of Category...

Involved in the introduction of Category Management principles in the procurement and merchandising aspects of the business, as well as the introduction of Performance Management for branch operation in a bid to improve efficiency. Planning and implementation of the strategic expansion plan into the wider East and Central African region.

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