The Team

Siphiwe Dlamini has a PhD in Business Science specialising in Marketing from Wits University and is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Marketing Section in the School of Management Studies. His research interests are in the areas of brand management, green marketing (environmentally sustainable consumerism), and the impact of marketing on low-income consumers.

Dr. Raeesah Chohan is a Senior Lecturer of Marketing with an interest in Services Marketing and Business-to-Business (Industrial) Marketing. She holds a PhD in Industrial Marketing from Sweden's Luleå University of Technology. Dr. Chohan's research focuses on opportunistic behavior, professional service relationships, and entrepreneurial mindsets. Her work is published in the International Journal of Advertising, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and the British Food Journal.

Nqobile Bundwini is a lecturer in Marketing at UCT and has interests rooted in Consumer Behaviour and Brand Building. Her current research focuses on Stigmatised Industries and Religious Marketing. 

Martin is an experienced marketing all-rounder, having held senior positions in various local and multi-national businesses in the retail, advertising and FMCG sectors. His career spans more than 25 years and includes positions such as managing director of Berry Bush BBDO, director of marketing and financial services at Ackermans Group, chairman of Jay-Jays and VP of groceries at PepsiCo sub-Saharan Africa.

Lebogang has an affinity for marketing in a digital world and is a certified Digital Marketer.  Her main areas of interest is the marriage of marketing and psychology as well as research on cohorts that the dominant discourse keeps on the periphery of marketing communications. This includes: Social Marketing, Alternative/Non-Normative Marketing and Queer-Centric Marketing.

Nkosivile is an Associate Professor in the School of Management Studies at the University of Cape Town. His research focus is in consumer behaviour.

Dr Pillay completed his Doctor of Commerce degree specialising in the Marketing discipline and is registered as a Chartered Marketer with the Marketing Association of South Africa (MASA). He has functioned in various management roles in the corporate and academic sectors prior to joining the University of Cape Town as a senior lecturer. His areas of research specialisation include consumer behaviour, brand management and consumer neuroscience.

Deon Nel is Professor of Marketing in the School of Management Studies, University of Cape Town. Previously he was Associate Dean Research at Flinders Business School in Australia. He served as the Anglo Vaal Industries Professor of Marketing at the School of Economic & Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests are in the areas of the multilevel modelling of longitudinal global brand value, customer equity, and the impact of global regions on brand value performance. 

Tendai is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business at Western Sydney University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK). He has an interest in brand building, consumer behaviour and international marketing. His research interests include social marketing challenges and how marketers ‘engage low and middle income consumers.

Amu is Research and development specialist at KayaFM. He has an MBA and is obsessed about how people think, shop, feel and is on an journey to be an expert in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, cultural strategy, media he has helped clients define what brands should stand for, how to connect with audiences. He is equally passionate about Marketing, Brands and Research in general.

Thabang is Group Executive for Marketing, Communications and Corporate Citizenship at the Liberty Group. Thabang is one of South Africa’s foremost strategic marketers with extensive experience across various sectors, including FMCG, telecoms, agro processing and media. He is a Chartered Marketer CM (SA) and holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) Degree from Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). Previous employers include the Coca-Cola Company, Nando’s, MTN, National Brands and the SABC.