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Chris is the Executive Head of Sales at IOL(PTY)Ltd, focusing on the sales revenue and to build-up the in-house sales department. With an increasing number for companies wishing to advertise online in order to capture the growing market we would like to champion building relationships between the agencies and IOL encouraging them to embrace the online advertising medium.
Having been in the online industry since 1999, Chris has worked for an international marketing firm as head of acquisition for over 4 years as well as blue chip organisations like First National Bank, MTN, Real Media and M-Web.

Adrian Hewlett graduated from UCT with a post graduate diploma in Marketing. Adrian began his on-line career as marketing manager at Rugby365. Within six months that role included managing all sales. Following an 18 month secondment to the 365 plc UK head office, Adrian returned to SA in 2002 to drive an aggressive expansion and resource growth plan for the 365 CT. In 2004 Adrian broke off to found Habari Media; which exclusively represents MSN's network, Sharenet and Careerjunction to name a few. Habari has offices in all major SA centres, Lagos, Dakar and Maputo. Habari Media employs over 55 people and has launched a financial site Justmoney.co.za. Adrian is passionate about growing the on-line industry and believes 2008 is going to be a major turning point for the industry following similar tipping point's in Europe 3 years ago. Adrian was a founding member of the OPA, and would like to see the association play an even bigger role in the industry's growth.

Mark is a Dutch citizen who moved to South Africa ten years ago from New York City He has an MBA degree from "the American University" based in Washington DC. Mark has been in the industry for 9 years starting at the now defunct Destiny Electronic Service. Before that he worked at Deloitte as a marketing specialist. He started working at Ananzi over 8 years ago as a Business unit manager. He moved with the product from company to company to eventually end up as the MD under the A.C. Brabys banner. Mark lives in Johannesburg and is married to Lydie and has three children.

Nikki is the CEO of Primedia Online which, amongst other online services, publishes the likes of iafrica.com, Rugby365, SA Soccer365 and Sport365. Primedia Online was formed after the sale of 365 to the Primedia Group. Nikki having graduated in Information Systems from UCT, started her career at Acceleration. She then joined 365 in a Business Development role progressing through the ranks to become the CEO and saw a successful MBO of the business and the subsequent sale to Primedia.

Colin Daniels is the Publisher of Times Online at Avusa Media (formerly Johncom) where he's in charge of a number of well-known brands. In addition, he also oversees the media division's digital strategy and runs its newly established innovation unit. Prior to joining Avusa, Colin was a new media lecturer at the highly respected New Media Lab—a division of the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies—where he taught digital theory and production to post-graduate journalism students. During this time he also conducted a number of research projects, primarily in the fields of new media and its impact on news production, blogging, and social media.

Elan has recently been appointed General Manager of Social Networking and Media at 24.com. He spent 3 years as Publisher of News24.com and building out other businesses such as Sport24 and Netads24. In 2007 he chaired the Ifra Digital conference in Dublin.
He has a Bachelor of Journalism, (Rhodes 1999) and started his career at Sunday Times online where me managed the division from 2002 - 2005. In 2004 he obtained a Certificate in Management Post Diploma through the Henley Institute of London (operated by GIMT) and graduated top of his class.

JP is the Chief Executive: Commercial at 24.com where he is responsible for the management of various 24.com online publishing business units.
He started his career in 1991 in Johannesburg as a computer programmer in the financial industry before becoming involved in the Internet. After initially working as an Internet consultant, JP became IT Director and then Managing Director at iafrica.com. He joined Naspers in 2004 as GM of MWEB Studios where he progressed to GM of 24.com and his current position. JP represented iafrica as a founding member of the OPA at it's inception.