Bio

As a Marketing Leader and Innovator I have helped some of the largest tech multinationals build local capacity and expand in Africa. After a decade in London working in the media and tech start-up space, I returned home to build Google South Africa’s first marketing team and had the exciting challenge of launching and growing numerous products including YouTube, Google Streetview, Google Meets and Chrome. At Meta I oversaw the opening of the first Africa office in Johannesburg, followed by Lagos, and led and worked with passionate teams to grow Meta’s presence on the African Continent, from connecting millions of people, to educating thousands of businesses - in turn growing ad revenue on Facebook and Instagram manifold. I’m passionate about empowering people through technology and have co-founded projects such Woza Online (with the DTI), which gave 50,000 small business free websites; Digify Pro (with Livity Africa), aimed at transforming the industry and creating jobs by upskilling youth; and the Meta Business Coach - an innovative, data-light way to train micro-entrepreneurs using chat-based education through WhatsApp . As a Journalist and Technologist, I’m mostly a storyteller, and I enjoy inspiring students and CMO’s alike about using technology - from mobile to XR - to tell beautiful and impactful stories.