Qedani Mahlangu
Qedani Mahlangu is the Gauteng MEC for Economic Development and a Convener of the Economic Transformation Committee in the province. She has served as a Member of Parliament and chaired the National Council of Provinces Select Committee on Finance.
Khulu Radebe
Khulu Radebe is the head of department of Gauteng Economic Development. He has has extensive experience both in the private sector and in public-sector management. He has served as deputy director general in the Gauteng office of the premier and as head of human resources at the Gauteng Shared Services Centre.
Jennifer Seif
Jennifer Seif has led Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA) since July 2001. She serves on various boards including the Tourism Business Council of South Africa, Fairtrade Label South Africa and the Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct and sits on the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism.
Salifou Siddo
New Tourism Enterprise Programme (TEP) chief executive Salifou Siddo brings with him a rich history in the tourism business. Among his many achievements, Siddo has been credited with starting the process of forging the tourism grading system in use today.
Mike Fabricius
Mike Fabricius is an experienced tourism strategist, manager, marketer and entrepreneur who has played a leadership role in the development of the South African tourism industry.
Veejay Archary
Veejay Archary is senior partner at Interbrand. He was a founder partner of HerdBuoys, the first black ad agency in South Africa, in 1991, of which he was both creative and design director until 1998.
Michael Tatalias
Michael Tatalias is currently serving his third term on the board of the Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) and is active in the TBC CEO’s Forum. He sits on the Department of Transport’s air access strategic planning committee, and on various tourism-related steering committees.
Anita Mendiratta
Anita Mendiratta has held strategic leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Unilever and The Coca-Cola Company. She now leads Cachet Consulting, a successful international strategic consulting firm focused on tourism and economic development.
Jeremy Sampson
Jeremy Sampson is the founder and executive chairperson of the Interbrand Sampson group, which has been going since 1973. He has always recognised Africa’s immense potential and spearheaded the development of branding on this continent.
Gordon Cook
Gordon Cook is a well-known South African marketing specialist, educator and author. A co-founder of the Vega Brand School and The Imagination Lab, Cook has lectured strategic marketing planning and strategic execution on two MBA programmes and is a regular lecturer on executive and professional management programmes at the Graduate School of Business in Cape Town.
Paul Bannister
Paul Bannister is is a management, marketing, branding and communications specialist who has run several major advertising agencies (including TBWA Hunt Lascaris) in South Africa. He currently heads up Ignite, a strategic consultancy. He is the founder of the Welcome Tourism movement, and has served on several tourism boards.
Thebe Ikalafeng
Thebe Ikalafeng is the founder of the award-winning Brand Leadership Group and arguably one of Africa’s foremost brand authorities. He has been recognised as one of the top 10 Thinkers in Marketing in an Ipsos survey among business decision-makers in Southern Africa.
Roshene Singh
Roshene Singh is the chief marketing officer of South African Tourism. Her primary responsibility is to deliver on the Tourism Growth Strategy, which is aimed at ensuring that South Africa is the preferred destination for leisure and business travel.
Ernie Heath
Ernie Heath is a professor and head of the department of Tourism Management at the University of Pretoria. He has extensive tourism experience, particularly in the spheres of community tourism development, strategic tourism management and destination marketing.
Gillian Saunders
Gillian Saunders is the head of specialist advisory services at Grant Thornton, where she is also a director. She has extensive experience in tourism, hospitality and leisure consulting gained in the South African and European hospitality industries.
Kate Rivett-Carnac
Kate Rivett-Carnac is currently the tourism specialist and acting manager within the Advisory Unit of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). She was previously director of tourism at the Department of Trade and Industry, a position she held for close to four years.
Amanda Nair
Amanda Nair has been a functionary in the government for more than 20 years, and spent 10 years prior to relocating to Johannesburg at the Durban municipality (Ethekwini) working at a senior management level in the development management sector.
Brett Dungan
Brett Dungan is CEO of the Federated Hospitality Association of Southern Africa (Fedhasa) and serves on various association boards, including the Tourism Business Council of South Africa, South African Tourism, the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa and the Fedhasa group hotel committee.
Dawn Robertson
Dawn Robertson is CEO of the Gauteng Tourism Authority, the provincial destination-marketing organisation that is responsible for leveraging the positive exposure, enhanced positioning and resulting gains the province received as a result of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Moseketsi Mpeta
Moseketsi Mpeta is a senior account manager in the tourism business unit at the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC).
Damian Cook
Damian Cook is the founder and CEO of E-Tourism Frontiers, a major global initiative to develop online tourism in developing markets. He has worked in travel media and communications for 15 years in Africa.
Ravi Naidoo
Ravi Naidoo is the founder and managing director of Interactive Africa, a Cape Town-based media and marketing company. He is the founder of the International Design Indaba and has served on the boards of Captour, the Cape Tourism Authority and UCT’s Graduate School of Business.
Mmatsatsi Marobe
Mmatsatsi Marobe is head of the Tourism Business Council of South Africa, where she plays a critical role in shaping the tourism industry. She holds an honours degree in business management and is studying for an MA in organisational management with the University of Phoenix.
Mike Tsotetsi
Mike Tsotetsi is the CEO of the Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority, and is well suited to this role with a background in the trade union movement that spanned 23 years.
Major General TS Mpembe
Major General TS Mpembe has been a member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) for 33 years. In 2009 he was appointed as the deputy provincial commissioner of operational services Gauteng, the position he currently holds.
Mike Schalit
Mike Schalit is the founding partner of Net#work BBDO, chief creative officer of BBDO SA, and founder and chairperson of the MAL Foundation. He began his career by failing as a rock musician. He then nearly ended it with a B.Comm.
