Association for Communication and Advertising [AMF]

1. 

   Gordon Muller

   Founder - GSM Quadrant

   In an advertising career spanning four decades, Gordon Muller has held senior positions at a number of major international advertising agencies … McCann-Erickson; Bates-Wells; Ogilvy & Mather, Saatchi & Saatchi and most recently as Managing Director of OMD South Africa, arguably Africa’s largest media agency and buyer of commercial advertising exposure. He has worked on a wide cross-section of local and multinational advertising business.

1. 

   Gordon Patterson

   Managing Director - Starcom

   Gordon Patterson is a man of vast industry experience. After completing an IMM diploma, he joined the Argus Group as Asst Mktg Admin Mgr and moved through the ranks. During this time he started a separate unit called the Sowetan Marketing Services. In 1987, he joined Young & Rubicam as Media Planner and was promoted to Media Mgr. Next came a stint with DMB&B/Sonnenberg Murphy Leo Burnett as Media Mgr and promoted to Associate Media Dir. In 2000 Patterson launched and was appointed MD of Starcom.

Print Media South Africa [PMSA]

1. 

   Gordon Utian

   Managing Director - Caxton Printers & Publishers

   Born 31 October 1945, attended the Parktown Boys High School and the University of Witwatersrand. I am married and have five children and nine grandchildren. From 1968 – 1982 I worked as Executive Director at Tiger Oats, then moving on to Checkers Stores as Managing Director from 1982 – 1985. I went on to the Premier Group as Managing Director from 1985 – 1995 and then as Chairman from 1995 – 1996 at Premier Foods. In 1996 I joined Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers as Managing Director.

2. 

   Nazeem Howa

   Executive Director: Operations - Independent News & Media (SA) Pty Ltd

   Appointed Executive Director - Operations in 2002, assuming group executive role responsible for Gauteng, Cape and KZN regions. Joined the Board of Independent News & Media (Pty) Limited in 2002. Joined Independent group in 1995 as deputy editor of The Sunday Independent. In 1997 promoted to deputy editor of The Star and editor of The Saturday Star, later being promoted to General Manager and then Managing Director of Gauteng region in 1999. Serves as director on numerous boards.

3. 

   Justice Malala

   General Manager - Avusa

   Justice Malala is general manager of Avusa¹s (formerly Johncom) stable of 56 magazines and an award-winning former newspaper editor and acclaimed magazine and newspaper columnist.Malala still writes regular weekly columns for The Times newspaper and the Financial Mail magazine. He also writes a monthly media and politics column for Empire magazine. He is the resident political analyst for independent television channel e.tv. Malala was also an executive producer on Hard Copy I and II.

4. 

   Francois Groepe

   CEO - Media24 Newspaper & Digital Division

   Francois Groepe was born in 1969 and grew up on the Cape Flats. He matriculated with distinction from John Ramsay SSS in Bishop Lavis and proceeded to Stellenbosch University from where he graduated with the degrees B.Com and Hons B.Com in 1990 and 1991 respectively. In August 2003 he returned to South Africa to take up the position of CFO at Media24 which is part of the Naspers Group. In April 2007 he was promoted to the position of CEO: Media24 Newspapers and Digital Division.

MA(SA)

1. 

   Simon Camerer

   Executive Head of Marketing – Cell C

   Simon Camerer joined Cell C (Pty) Ltd in March 2004 as the Group Executive Head of Marketing. Prior to joining Cell C he served as Marketing Director for the Walt Disney Company in Europe, as well as having held other Senior International Marketing and Strategy positions at Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) and Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising. Simon obtained a BA at Stellenbosch and an MBA at Thunderbird – The American Graduate School of International Management. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) and a member of the American Marketing Association.

2. 

   Eve Pennington

   Marketing Manager - Steers