Luella Naidoo has over 15 years of experience within the devices and pharmaceutical sectors (both Ethical and Generics). She is an astute social entrepreneur and passionate about empowerment, skills development and creating value and impacting empowerment and financial inclusion for all entrepreneurs.She has dedicated most of the work she activate to supporting the empowerment of youth graduates and people with special needs through job creation mentoring coaching and training Luella is a trailblazer and creating value in the business sector she influences is what sets this highly driven visionary on a trajectory to build bridges, support social cohesion, influence job creation and offer high impact problem-solving solutions especially in skills development.Her advocacy using entrepreneurship to support interventions in the treatment and management of HIV sectors is what drives her passion. She spent 10 years working in the HIV arena in diverse roles within the pharmaceutical industry ranged from the sales rep, sales manager, product manager, sales, marketing, and Business management. This philanthropist Mom and Social Entrepreneur is very much the captain steering Jezriel Craig Holdings. Through her astute leadership and mentoring she is able to transform, empower and drive sustainable business solutions to enable her network to reach their professional, personal and economic goals. JCH places a strong emphasis on creating sustainable value driven partnership with clients and candidates in assisting them to fulfill their recruitment needs successfully. The key focus of the business is about bridging the gap between having a degree and gaining work experience. Jezriel Craig Holdings (JCH) is a well specializes in the medical and pharmaceutical sector with a core focus on:- Training and DevelopmentRecruitmentContract Sales Force Business StrategiesHaving studied Theology and equipped with a Masters in Business leadership Luella is highly purpose driven and in her career trajectory having mastered the Pharmaceutical industry she is destined to create a significant shift in supporting skills development in her advocacy work in the treatment and prevention.

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Nicolette Mashile is a Bushbuckridg-born entrepreneur and media personality who is building a unique brand using her experiences to inspire and educate some of the people that have been captivated by her infectious personality and expertise around various subjects. She is the founder of Financial Fitness Bunny, which is a financial education initiative aimed at helping people with their financial situations, being it business or at home.Born and raised in the Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, where opportunities are far and few, Nicolette’s first challenge as a child was moving from a home in order to have access to a good education. After successfully completing her high schooling, she went on to study Social Studies and Law at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown. After not being able to complete her degree, she moved to Johannesburg, where she used that adversity to complete a National Diploma in Sports Management and a BA in Human and Social Studies majoring in Communications an Honours in Organisational communication and a post-graduate diploma in business admin enabling her to be a Masters Candidate in 2018.Nicolette is a forward- thinking and reliable team player and has served in the marketing communications environment, advertising and public relation roles. She is results driven, inspired by business growth and alignment in her communications tasks in any industry or sector. Having worked and studied simultaneously, she has accelerated her understanding of the impact of communications in any industry, whilst nurturing a career in marketing communications.

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Irene Kiwia is an accomplished business entrepreneur whose career spans over 18 years in Business Management, Media, Public Relations Communications and Gender and Youth Empowerment. She is the Founder and CEO of Frontline Management, a management firm with 3 dynamic divisions;- Frontline Porter Novelli, a PR and communication division that is a global partner of Porter Novelli the US-based PR leader owned by the communication conglomerate OMNICOM, and has a presence in over 85 countries.- Frontline Solutions - A technology division that builds solutions to complex social challenges.- The Women of Achievement - a platform to empower women and girls through social and economic transformation across Africa.Recognition of her role as a woman leader empowering other women and the girl child include, being mentored by a Fortune 500 company woman leader under the 2010 Fortune/US State Department Women Mentoring Program, receiving the Coin of Excellence from the US Ambassador to Tanzania in 2011, becoming a 2014 Global Health and Diplomacy Fellow, participating in the 2014 UN General Assembly Health and Young Girl’s Empowerment Forums and being honored 2015 Woman of The Year Africa by Africa Reconnect, a South African based leadership organization that honors outstanding African leaders who empower women. In 2018 she was selected as part of the 200 Obama Leaders in Africa and on the same year nominated as a finalist in AWIEF (AFRICAN WOMEN INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORUM) Empowerment Award.

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Precious Mvulane is a chartered accountant and registered auditor with more than 12 years of experience working for the big four auditing companies. After working in finance for 18 years, Precious moved on to become an entrepreneur, starting GAD, an Accounting and Tax consultancy, which has since evolved into a training, publishing and development organization that aims to educate, empower and enable people to achieve economic freedom.She is also the author of THE ESSENTIAL FINANCE HANDBOOK - For EntrepreneursEntrepreneurs tend to build businesses around a specific skill or passion. They don’t realize that, as part of the package, they also have to become a sales, marketing, admin and accounting expert.Entrepreneurship in South Africa has the highest business failure rate in the world, with around 9 of 10 new businesses failing within the first 3 years. One of the key reasons for this excessively high failure rate is that entrepreneurs don’t have the right finance structures, processes, and controls in place from the start. This handbook could be just what is needed to change their potential for success in business and – quite possibly – even their lives!The Essential Finance Handbook for Entrepreneurs is filled with over 200 best-practice strategies for small businesses as well as principals, tips, case studies, templates (more than 30), tools, checklists, and action plans to make sure entrepreneurs can implement all you have learned quickly and effectively.

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Antos Stella is a pioneer and a digital Disruptor with an extraordinary presence in the music industry for over 30 years. Ms. Stella is one of the most respected businesswomen to emerge from the industry. Her artist relations have been one of her major strengths, enabling her to successfully bridge the gap between the creative and business worlds.Antos has been instrumental in some of the country’s biggest international artist deals, an ambassador for the country internationally as well as a leading content aggregator focused specifically on the relationship between telecommunications and the digital distribution of local and international content. Antos and her team at Content Connect are expanding the distribution of content to include not only music but mobile television and video content too.Under her supervision, Content Connect Africa has come to be one of South Africa’s leading content aggregators representing independent labels and artists throughout the continent; and has evolved into a 360 record label with offices in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda and represents legendary artists such as the Mahotella Queens.She has been instrumental in some of the country’s biggest international artist deals, is an ambassador for the country internationally, and previously was the driving force behind Gallo Music South Africa – one of the country’s biggest record companies for over 20 years.Having an extraordinary presence in the music industry for nearly 30 years, Antos Stella has successfully bridged the gap between the creative and business worlds.Content Connect Africa is a content aggregator that started off as a digital distribution company providing content digitally, specifically focused on South African music, constantly developing entertainment services that reflect and fit with the cultural values that are unique in nature to this emerging market of business.

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Vanessa sits down with the incredible Roshnie Moonsammy. Roshnie is the founder and director of Southern Africa Arts Exchange which hosts amongst other programmes, the Urban Voices, an exposure of international poetry, music and theatre – focusing on African voices on the continent and in the Diaspora.

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On this episode, Vanessa chats to Nomsa Nteleko. She is the Co-founder and the managing director of OS Holdings, fondly refer to as the boss lady. OS Holdings was set up in 2012 as a consulting firm with the vision of providing sound and affordable solutions to state-owned entities and other government parastatals. These organisations deal with many processes which are not automated which causes great inefficiencies when it comes to reporting and compliance.

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On this episode, Vanessa Perumal chats Yogavelli Nambiar, she is the CEO of Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. As the CEO, Yogavelli joins the Foundation with extensive experience, having previously founded and headed up the Enterprise Development Academy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), the business school of the University of Pretoria as its Director, where she led the entrepreneurship efforts of the school within the center. Prior to that she was Country Director of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative and led the design and delivery of this successful international women’s entrepreneurship programme in South Africa.

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Yashmita Bhana, CEO of Nihka Technology Group, joins #ECAfrica100 to unpack her journey during growth phases while also expanding on how she had started the company The Nihka Technology Group. She shares her take on how society works and how the IT sector fits in to make a positive impact.CEO of Nihka Technology Group, a company that started off as a consulting agency 10 years ago and has grown over the past few years and has over the years it has seen very gradual well-thought through growth, not just running after what the next best thing.The Nihka Technology Group eventually started moving away from consulting towards a more tech-focused company, which is what they currently do. ‘We manage the data value chain, which means we analyze your data, we store your data, we transport your data, we secure your data and we enterprise data.’ says Yashmita Bhana.The Nihka Technology Group is also focused on bringing the digital future to both private and public sectors, locally and globally. They do this by delivering innovative, integrated technologies and intelligent solutions. The company offers end-to-end multi-dimensional consulting, with an emphasis on integrating the human potential because they believe that while artificial technology may be able to stimulate the human intelligence processes, a business cannot thrive on technology alone.

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In a bold move inspired by a collective vision to change the African narrative, #ECAfrica100 Premiers With Leruo Dichaba.
In this episode, Vanessa Perumal chats Leruo Dichaba, Ms. Dichaba believes in the power and importance of Africans telling’ our own stories in our own voices and on our own platforms’.
Leruo Dichaba is a South African born businesswoman in the field of Media, Renewable Energy and Transport. She is the CEO of Africa Business Radio and studied Project Management and Political Studies at the Walter Sisulu Leadership Academy and African & International Trade at TIMALI. Leruo has considerable experience in organization management and the planning of various projects.
She’s an Afro-optimist who believes that the development of Africa should come from the hands of Africans and therefore it is the responsibility of Africans to come up with sustainable economic industries for its betterment
Being a successful broadcaster, she shares her insights on why collaboration is relevant and why the radio station which aims to promote and share any and all business matters evolving around the African continent is partnering with #ECAfrica100
‘Let’s tell our own stories in our voices, on own platforms’ – Leruo Dichaba
“For us to progress as people, we have to collaborate. For another black person to succeed, it’s all our success” Leruo Dichaba

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