Experience

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  Bobby Bown Solutions

  • South Africa

  • Media Consultant / Coach / Trainer

    • Feb 2012 - Present
    • South Africa

    Two-Day Executive Media Training Master Class, designed for:• C-Suite Executives (Including CFOs and Directors)• HODs• Marketing Heads• Sales Managers• Media Liaisons / Social Media Managers / Spokes people• Project Leads / Events Coordinators• HR professionals• Brand AmbassadorsKey Outcomes• A full understanding of the evolving media landscape• Identifying stories in your organisation and effective pitching to the media• Impactful messaging to win free PR• Interview preparation and tips & techniques to optimise the exposure• Handling hostile interviews and crisis communication• Inserting your brand into the topical news-cycle and becoming the leader in your industry• Social media strategizing • Positioning your brand to shine in long-format interviewsSee attached for more, including testimonial videos:"Stopping your marketing to save money, is like stopping your watch to save time"Henry Ford

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  Magic 828

  • Century City, Cape Town

  • Breakfast Show anchor

    • Jul 2023 - Present
    • Century City, Cape Town

    I host the Breakfast Show; collate content; determine and execute strategy around sponsorships, sales, competitions and omni-channel partnerships to support audience building and increase revenue.

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  Bobby Brown Solutions

  • South Africa

  • Master of Ceremonies, Moderator, Speaker, Facilitator, Brand Ambassador

    • 1995 - Present
    • South Africa

    • As a seasoned MC, I will make a significant intellectual contribution towards your event.I am engaging, entertaining and well-informed and have a wry, improv sense of humour that audiences appreciated. • I am passionate and eloquent, and - while keeping proceedings to time, also create pleasant memories and lasting smiles. As your moderator:• I am able to tie subjects together, involve the audience, comment intelligently and keep a conversation interesting and flowing with any number of expert speakers.I am engaging and well versed in social commentary and current affairs and have a wry sense of humour that audiences appreciated. I have addressed hundreds of audiences over the years – ranging from inspirational talks at school assemblies/graduations, to corporate motivational talks, gala events and government awards ceremonies. The most recent ones include: • Western Cape Education Department Long Service Awards 2019 - Cape Town and surrounds• SA Innovation Summit 2023• UCT Lung Institute 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner 2019• SA Institute of Professional Accountants Indaba 2019• Women in ICT 2019• Africa Tech Week• Artificial Intelligence Expo Africa (2018, 2019, 2023)• Female Farmer of the Year Awards• Allan Gray Entrepreneurship Challenge• TedX Cape Town speaker• Inyathelo Philanthropy Awards (Speaker)• World Design Capital Cape Town (Speaker)• Nelson Mandela Tribute memorial at City Hall (held over 14 days)• Ten consecutive contracts to manage the Cape Town Mayor’s Festive Lights Switch-on Carnivals• Spar Tussen die Sterre concert• GrandSlots Annual Awards• City Mission Annual gathering• Marketing Indaba• French-SA Technology Conference• Gradlinc (Stellenbosch University) Dialogue• Africa Agri Tech• DataCon Africa• ECom Africa• GUEST LECTURER - CPUT; Damelin; City Varsity (Introduction to multi-media reporting)• IN-STORE PA PRESENTER- Makro; GrandWest,• PRESENTER/COACH - Clicks Radio• BRAND AMBASSADOR - Pivothead glasses; Toyota

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  Independent Media (Pty) Ltd

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Social Commentator - The Daily Voice

    • 2015 - Present
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Writing a weekly social commentary/current affairs page for the Daily Voice - the Cape’s most widely-read daily tabloid. This has grown into a hugely popular weekly page, deconstructing topical issues – both domestically and globally and can often venture onto controversial social issues.Circulation:434 000 (PAMS 2017)330 000 (UBS on www.dailyvoice.co.za)200 000 (Facebook followers a/a 2019)I have previously written commentary columns for The Sunday Times (SA), The Saturday Star and The Cape Times.

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  Bobby Brown Solutions (Formerly Maximum Exposure cc aka MaxPo Marketing)

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Managing Director

    • Jan 2009 - Present
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    MaxPo was an events and concepts marketing company that specialised in brand innovation, awareness building; product sampling (such as live promotions) and event conceptualising and managing. The company has since morphed into Bobby Brown Solutions. MaxPo has serviced numerous corporations over the years and has been (jointly) responsible for some of THE most memorable events in Cape Town's history, such as:* The FIFA 2010 World Cup launch party in Long Street* The FIFA 2010 World Cup opening ceremony concert* City of Cape Town Mayoral Festive Lights switch-on Carnival (nine consecutive awards)* City Lights Fashion on the Water* Reconciliation Day concert in the Park (four consecutive awards)* VSlots regional activations* ZADNA activations

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  Smile 90.4FM

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Breakfast Show Radio Presenter

    • Jan 2013 - Aug 2023
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    I joined the Smile 90.4FM team two months before going live in March 2013, helping to lay the foundation for our systems, training staff and testing infrastructure.It was my fourth time as part of the launch team of a major media outlet.I anchored the flagship show – Smile Breakfast for ten years. The show evolved into a fun, pacy, topical, entertaining, diverse, quirky, intelligent and very familiar part of Cape Town's mornings.As the flagship show, I contributed significantly to growing the newcomer, Smile 90.4 FM's listenership to over 200 000 in under five years, in a very crowded and competitive market.I did this with the help of a few milestone features, such as "Bekkig" (hilarious kids' comment on current affairs), a weekly car review and the iSmile Tech Report, which simplified complicated tech news and jargon by making it relevant and accessible. I produced and presented the feature, which navigated a broad spectrum of technological news with daily themes, ie Mondays – gadgets; Tuesdays – biotech/medical; Wednesdays – digital; Thursdays – tech entrepreneurial; Fridays – space tech.The iSmile Report was a finalist in the Communications division of the NSTF-BHP Billiton Awards 2014 in the fields of Engineering, Technology and Innovation: https://bit.ly/2Yh6gdUI am in the process of expanding this content into a dedicated website - www.geeksquad.co.za - which is under construction as of June 2023.I am a MTN Journalist of the Year Award winning news writer/presenter.

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  Primedia Broadcasting

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa; Cape Town, South Africa

  • News Anchor/Presenter

    • Mar 1998 - Feb 2013
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa; Cape Town, South Africa

    I started at Primedia as a reporter and stand-in anchor at the groundbreaking Radio 702 in Johannesburg, Gauteng.When Primedia won the license for the first ever talk radio station in Cape Town, I was seconded to be part of the set-up and launch team for 567MW Cape Talk. In my time there, I was a reporter, producer, presenter, news anchor and assignments editor.I briefly left to form part of the launch team for the new and innovative TV breakfast show (AM2Day on SABC2) and returned in January 2001.I left again a year later to join the Western Cape region's biggest independent Adult Contemporary music radio station - KFM 94.5 as a news anchor and assignments editor.KFM was later bought by Primedia, bringing me back into the fold of my previous employer.

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  94.5 KFM

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Radio Presenter

    • 2010 - 2013
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    As the Cape's biggest Adult Contemporary radio station, I started out as the PM Drive News anchor, to becoming it's Breakfast Show news anchor and assignment's editor.Eventually, I presented various shows over a period of time, Including Weekend Breakfast. I was part of the team that - over a 3-year-period, guided the station from 500 000, to 1.2-million listeners.

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  Times Media Groups (The Sunday Times SA)

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • News Reporter

    • 2009 - 2010
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

    I started out as a general reporter, which lead to a column “Bobby On the Beat,” about Johannesburg’s nightlife, regular contributions to the Sunday Times Magazine, writing music reviews for the column “CD Side of Town” and joining the sub-editing team of the Sunday Times Sports supplement

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  SABC / MNet / eTV / Other

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Television Presenter

    • 1997 - 2002
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    * I was one of the intrepid presenters on AM2Day - often quoted as "the SABC's most innovative and memorable breakfast show ever." It pioneered live television content, by crossing between three regional studios (each with several presenters) and three field presenters every morning from 6am to 9am. One of THE most celebrated events I did, was to travel from the northern-most tip of Africa, to the southern-most in 4X4s, broadcasting live from a different country every second day.* I worked as an insert presenter/producer for MNet’s magazine show “Front Row” and presented several inserts on eTV shows. * I presented the insert "Off the Couch" for the SABC2's adventure/magazine show "LiveWire."* I have also been correspondent for several international TV stations, including CNBC and ABC in the U.S. * I was the Cape Town presenter for the global TV broadcast of New Year's Eve 1999. Each hour of the (Y2K) broadcast came from a different city - starting at midnight in that particular city.

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  Good Hope FM

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Radio Show Host

    • 2000 - 2000
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    I had a very short stint on the Cape's biggest pop/R&B music station. My presentation style wasn't a good fit and we parted ways.

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  SABC Radio - SAfm

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Radio Presenter

    • 1997 - 1998
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    I co-presented the weekend breakfast show with veteran broadcaster Will Bernard. My contribution was largely of adventurous outings I did for my news paper column.This also lead to a production company filming my “Bobby On the Beat” column as an insert for the magazine TV show “Off the Coach.”

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  Independent Media (Pty) Ltd

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • General Assignment Reporter - The Star

    • 1995 - 1998
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

    A general reporter on the daily Star News paper and columnist for the Weekend Star. After relocating back to Cape Town, I wrote several social commentary pieces for the Cape Times, as well as pieces for the Weekend Star about life in the Mother City.