About

David is an experienced strategy practitioner with over 26 years of experience in leading significant Brand, Insight, Marketing, People, Research and Technology projects for large corporate organisations across the world. He founded Delta Victor Bravo^® in September 2018.

Previously David was CEO of Yellowwood (until August 2018) where he worked across 20 African countries, the Middle East and Europe with leading clients like: Absa, Airtel, Barclays, DStv, Michelin, MTN and Pernod Ricard. David has also led global brand projects while based in London and has senior client-side experience as Head of eBusiness for the De Beers Group.

David cares passionately about deepening the marketing industry’s business capability and the development of new marketing models to drive all aspects of growth and value in developing economies. He is widely published on these and brand related topics including recent article in the International Journal of Brand Strategy: Social innovation: An imperative for brands to address systemic social issues.

He is a prior Chairperson of the South African Communication Design Council and The Digital Interactive Media Association and prior Director of The Brand Council of SA and the Joburg Ballet.

Leane is a seasoned marketer with 17 years of strategic marketing and brand management experience, across local and global brands.

Specialising in Retail at senior and executive level, she has shaped and led numerous brand strategies, product innovations and communication initiatives for Estee Lauder, Tom Ford, Avon, Justine, Guess, Forever New, ALDO, Steve Madden, Frasers, to name a few.
During her tenure at Estee Lauder Companies, she pioneered and led an aggressive consumer recruitment strategy to shift brand perceptions, penetrate the millennial market and thus continued the momentum of double-digit growth as a leader in the industry.

As Head of Marketing for multiple apparel, footwear and luggage brands, she sharpened her knowledge and expertise on the optimisation of the marketing operating model and the principles of digital transformation to future proof brands.

Despite her love for fashion and all things shiny, she has a deep desire to make the world a better place, by nurturing, guiding and fostering a growth mindset. She is passionate about disrupting and transforming brands in an ever-evolving landscape.

Nomonde is a grounded & strategic thinker and challenger who is passionate about building meaningful brands and propositions for markets and people. In just under 10 years, she has accumulated experience across various brand, marketing and people strategy projects, both as a strategist for a leading marketing consultancy and as an independent strategy consultant. She has worked across various industries & clients such as Telkom, MTN, Pembani, Liberty, Multichoice and TFG. Her skills within marketing span across brand positioning & naming, value proposition development, go-to-market strategy, marketing optimisation, opportunity roadmapping, brand architecture strategy, portfolio strategy and customer strategy. Nomonde’s immediate career goal is to extend her experience in developing resolute & inspiring strategies into making them happen in challenging & practical environments.

Rhiannon is a curious and determined strategist. A reformed Economics & Law graduate, Rhiannon has a passion for making the world a smarter, more effective, more inclusive, and more compassionate place.

In a short time, Rhiannon has accumulated extensive experience on a number of brand, insights, marketing, and people projects with clients across various industries, including: Absa, Alexander Forbes, Barclays, BCX, Liberty, MTN, Old Mutual, Standard Bank, and Telkom. She has also lectured on brand strategy and economics at the Vega School of Brand Leadership, is a prior member of the Brand Council of South Africa’s Management Committee, and serves on the Vega Bordeaux Regional Advisory Council.

If Rhiannon had any spare time, she would keep busy with reading, sewing, chasing other people’s dogs in the park, or trawling Wikipedia. However, she is a Master’s candidate in Inclusive Innovation at the UCT Graduate School of Business, and so has minimal spare time, being preoccupied with disrupting the normative system through her research into gender and entrepreneurship.