WikiMzansi is South Africa's free online information resource profiling the continent's prominent leaders. 
WikiMzansi is South Africa's free online information resource profiling the continent's prominent leaders.
View professional biographies of prominent Botswana celebrities, politicians, corporate and business leaders.
Samuels is the Botswana Life Chief Executive Office. Samuels carries extensive experience across multiple disciplines which spanned over 24 years. Mr. Samuels began his career at Old Mutual in South Africa. Since then, he has held a number of well reputed management and leadership positions in the Sanlam Group. This includes: Financial Advisor, Business Development… read more »
Yebeltal Getachew (YG) is the Customer & Commercial Leadership Director for West Africa Business Unit. Since joining the company in the year 2000 as the Marketing Manager for Horn of Africa, Yebeltal Getachew has held several positions of increasing responsibility. In 2003, YG was appointed Operations Marketing Rep. for Ethiopia and Djibouti and as Country… read more »
Rocky Findley is the General Manager for the WIMA Franchise leading business strategies to deliver sustainable system growth and profit in 30 markets. Rocky’s broad career spans over 34 years – 16 of which have been spent within the Coca-Cola system. An experienced general management professional with marketing, asset management, financial Services, and Franchise Leadership… read more »
Nkem Akobundu is the Technical Director for Coca-Cola West Africa Business Unit. Nkem is the immediate former Technical Manager for Central Indian & Atlantic (Oceans) Franchise. Nkem Akobundu joined The Coca-Cola Company in 2002 as Region Technical Representative for Nigeria & Equatorial Africa and subsequently held positions of increasing responsibility including Supply Chain Improvement Manager… read more »
Matrona Filippou is the General Manager in charge of Stills, Ventures & Emerging Brands for Coca-Cola West Africa Business Unit. In her current role, Matrona leads the development and execution of a common growth, innovation and investment strategy for Stills beverages (Juice, Water, Dairy and Energy drinks) for Coca-Cola and its bottling partners in the… read more »
Lionel Marumahoko is the Mergers & Acquisitions Director for the West Africa Business Unit based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He has served The Coca-Cola Company for more than 20 years. Prior to his current appointment, he was the General Manager responsible for volume and profit growth for Coca-Cola in 30 countries across West Africa, Mid… read more »
Antoinette Absaloms joined The Coca-Cola Company in September 2011, in the Central East and West Africa Business unit as Operations Counsel for the East and Central Africa markets. Over the years, her areas of responsibility have increased in breadth and scope. She has been a valued legal partner to the business and her strong bias… read more »
Jonathan Ojany is the Director of Strategy and Insights for the West Africa Business Unit. He joined The Coca-Cola Company in 2014 as the Strategy and Business Planning Director for Central, East and West Africa Business Unit based in Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to Coca-Cola, Jonathan was the Director of Global Strategy at the InterContinental Hotels… read more »
Enitan Oyenuga is the Human Resource Director for the Coca-Cola West Africa Business Unit responsible for driving the talent and organizational development agenda Enitan Oyenuga started her career as a Talent Researcher in the UK and subsequently joined Diageo in their head office in the UK as part of a Team that led the transformation… read more »
Clem Ugorji is the Public Affairs & Communications Director for the West Africa Business Unit responsible for leading the Company’s sustainability agenda and stakeholder management to grow corporate trust and enable sustainable business growth. Clem Ugorji was previously the Public Affairs & Communications Director for Coca-Cola Nigeria Franchise. In this role, he successfully positioned Coca-Cola… read more »
Bill Gray is an experienced brand builder with over 20 years’ experience in Consumer Packaged Goods Brand Management. Bill Gray joined The Coca-Cola Company’s US Sprite Marketing team in 2005 prior to which he had worked for Procter & Gamble and Nestle. He transitioned to the Coca-Cola Global Marketing team in 2008 where he worked… read more »
Bhupendra Suri is the General Manager, Coca-Cola Nigeria Franchise responsible for leading and optimizing profitable revenue and volume growth of Coca-Cola brands in Nigeria. Bhupendra joined Coca-Cola in 1996 and has held various positions of increasing responsibility across the system. In his most recent assignment as Vice President – Franchise Bottling Operations (FBO) in India,… read more »
DEBORAH PISTORIUS: Having 27 years’ secretarial and administrative experience, Deborah has a wide and varied skill set that is valuable to her position at the IAB. She is organised, efficient and detail oriented.
Katharine is a dynamic and versatile addition to the core IAB team. With a wealth of operational and management experience, particularly in the hospitality and event management industries, Katharine joined IAB as the part time Events Co-ordinator to run regular educational, training and round table events, as well as the annual Summit & Bookmark Awards…. read more »
KANTHA GOVENDER is both innovative and strategic in her approach. Kantha held the position of Publishing Manager at Media 24 and comes with a wealth of Media experience. In KANTHA GOVENDER 18 years in Media, she has worked across brands like True Love, Move!, Real, FHM, Kick Off, TV Plus, Grazia, Leef, Your Baby, Your… read more »