Women’s Month is a time to celebrate the contributions women have made to culture, history and society. We celebrate the incredible achievements of women throughout history. Women have played a vital role throughout ancient and contemporary civilization. DigitalShero encourages you to share stories of inspirational women in your lives. A tribute to all females in marketing who have made a difference.
BOLAWANA MAGS SHIVANDA
Mags Shivanda, who is an astute Founding Director and Innovative publisher, has over13 year’s experience in Digital Media Marketing. Her company Digital Shero Media Group is a 100% Black Female owned #ADTECH media and digital marketing company. She is also the Founder and Head Cheerleader of BloemGirlsRock Foundation, an NPO based in Bloemfontein which provides computer literacy skills to underprivileged girls.
Mags Shivanda’s career started in 2007 when she became an intern in one of the biggest media houses in South Africa. She founded DigitalShero in 2015 and in 2019 she was sent by Investec with 13 other young media owners to Bangalore in India for their Network Global program. She is now an aspiring Angel Investor who has invested in one of the emerging e-commerce companies in South Africa. Her dream is to inspire and show young girls from anywhere in Africa that female leaders do exist they do things differently. Female leaders all over the world are very futuristic and every young girl should never ever doubt their uniqueness.
NKGABISENG MOTAU
Nkgabiseng Motau is the co-founder and CCO of TTL creative agency Think Creative Africa. She has worked as the art director at FCB and Ogilvy Johannesburg. She has been called upon to judge various industry awards, including Pendoring, Creative Circle, Cannes Young Lion, and the Nestlé Art Project. She has also received a Gold Pendoring award for her work on the branding of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital.
She gives back to the industry serving as a board membership at Creative Circle, the Loeries Committee as well as mentorship through The One Club Creative Bootcamp and the Loeries Open Chair.
MASEGO MOTSOGI
Masego Motsogi is the managing director of Grid Worldwide, having previously held the roles of MD at Ninety9Cents Johannesburg and the business unit director at McCann Erickson and Ogilvy & Mather South Africa. With nearly two decades worth of experience in the marketing industry, she has worked with clients across an extremely diverse portfolio. She has a keen interest in youth and female development, as well as developing the industry.
ROBYN CAMPBELL
Robyn Campbell took over as the Managing Director of brand experience company Machine in March. Campbell served as the MD of TTL agency and HelloFCB+. She is also the head of the agency council at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). With over a decade of experience in the marketing industry, she has played a significant role in developing a variety of specialist units. She is passionate about transformation and equality within the marketing industry and spends much of her time contributing to thought leadership, mentoring and developing initiatives.
KOO GOVENDER
Koo Govender is the current CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network South Africa. She has previously worked as the group CEO of the VWV Group South Africa (the first female to take up this role in the company) and as Director of Corporate Marketing and Communications at M-Net. Govender has a real passion for women empowerment and mentorship, which is evident through her championing the Phakama Women’s Academy. The Academy serves as a bridging programme to equip and empower marketing university graduates for what the corporate life is really like.
She has won numerous business and female-empowerment awards, including the Mail & Guardian Investing in the Future and Drivers of Change Awards in 2015.
ODETTE VAN DER HAAR
In September 2019, Odette Van Der Haar took up the spot as MD of Publicis Africa. She previously worked as the CEO of J Walter Thompson South Africa and the Association for Communication and Advertising where she spearheaded the revival of the highly coveted APEX Awards (now the Effies).
She has a reputation for championing transformation within the industry, having co-authored the industry’s now-legislated Charter for Transformation. She also serves as the industry representative for transformation on the Charter Council. Van Der Haar is a regular judge for various industry awards and throughout her career, has been awarded titles including ‘Woman of the Year’, ‘The Most Influential Woman in Business and Government’ as well as ‘The Most Powerful Woman in South African Digital Marketing’.
SUHANA GORDHAN
On Tesday September 1st, Suhana Gordhan will be a new executive director of the Duke Group. Gordhan is one of the most advanced women in the advertising industry, previously ECD with FCB Africa and Net # Work BBDO, VML South Africa and CD at Black River FC. By acting on the “Ton Chair” in the old KU before, Gordhan is very committed to the growing number and growth of the diameter of the industry. Gordhan imagined an open chair initiative with Simoné Bosman and Jenny Glover. This offers the opportunity for young women to be normalized by some of the most successful women in the industry. Gordhan has also won an impressive number of awards such as Loveries Grand Prix, Black Eagle, Golden Pendum, Creative Circle Ads, Silver Pixel Marker, Silver Pixel, Silver Pixel.
NUNU NTSHINGILA-NJEKE
Nunu Ntshingila-Njeke is the person responsible for Facebook Africa to lead the teams that participate in institutions and brands throughout the continent to help them maximize the provision of platforms. In 2016 she led the industry of South African advertising and made history by becoming the first woman to obtain the Veritiz’s Hall of Fame for her work. She is one of the most exciting women in the industry, with the passion of using techniques to promote social inclusion in Africa. She had no relationship with advertising but she served a long career in Ogilvy & Mather South Africa and works as CEO after the secondary MD.
FRAN LUCKIN
You cannot mention the word “Marketing” in South Africa without remembering the wonderful Fran Ractchin! She is currently working in Creative Officer Gray African Chief, who is driving a campaign for big name brands such as Volvo, Console, Nestlé. Recently Lukin was appointed as the new President of the Loerie Awards.
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