Nomahlubi Simamane

Nomahlubi an action-oriented professional who is passionate about brands and branding, established Zanusi Brand Solutions in 2001. She developed the Zanusi Migration Model ^TM, a strategic tool that navigates a business through the process of modifying or changing to address new, opportunity markets without destroying the current source of profit. 

Under Simamane's leadership, Zanusi Brand Solutions , has registered an annual compounded average revenue growth in excess of 30% over the past five years, having delivered brand building strategies and activating plans for blue chip companies and state-owned entities (including the likes of Airports Company South Africa (ACSA), BP South Africa, Liberty Life Properties, Old Mutual, Markam, Pick n Pay, Leungo Properties, Gobodo Forensic and Investigative Accounting (Pty) Ltd, Zain, Motjoli Resources, East African Breweries Limited, the Film and Publication Board, and the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund to name just a few).

She did an 18 month stint with BLGK Bates before establishing her own company, a South African Top 20, through-the-line Communications Company as Managing Director. In addition to extensive local and international marketing experience (17 years in South Africa, Kenya and the USA), she has an excellent track record of building brands within Unilever and British American Tobacco where she was Marketing Director. 

She sits on several boards including JSE listed Cashbuild, Oceana and Foschini Group. She is a guest lecturer at Wits Post Graduate School, University of Johannesburg, Vega School of Brand Communication and the University of Texas in San Antonio USA. 

She was the 2009 winner of the Top Busineswomen of the Year Award in the National Business Awards run by Top Companies and named the Businesswoman of the Year at the 2009 Black Business  Awards run by BBQ.

Over and above this, Nomahlubi has managed to bring up 4 wonderful children on her own, three sons and a daughter, aged 21-28 years.

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