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Ronak Gopaldas

Ronak is a political economist with a huge passion for Africa and its development. As Director of Signal Risk, an exclusively African risk advisory firm, he focuses on the intersection of politics, economics and business on the continent. He was previously the Head of...

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Cindy Bell

After an early career in Marketing and Advertising, followed by Talent Management and Organisational Development, Cindy found herself transitioning into her ‘sweet spot’: Leadership Development and Coaching. Recognising the challenge of attracting, retaining and...

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Steve Glendinning

For the past 30 years Steve has worked and studied internationally in a diversity of environments, from stable and progressive, to innovative and artistic, to disrupted and complex. Steve gained extensive management experience from positions in AECI (chemical...

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Miranda Naiman

Miranda is a Member of The Africa List – a select community of next generation CEOs in Africa’s most exciting growth markets. She founded Empower in 2009 with a view to positively impacting Tanzania by investing in its people. She is an organisational development...

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Ije Jidenma

Ije is an accomplished Management Consultant and Professional. Her rich post-graduation experience garnered over a period of more than thirty years, traverses academia, 'hands on' practice and consulting experience in functional areas such as Learning and Development,...

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Rania Abdalla

Rania has more than 25 years of Human Resources experience, through which she has held senior managerial positions in PepsiCo UK, UAE and Egypt, prior to founding Aspire HR Consultants. Over the years she has worked closely with top leaders and executives of hundreds...

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Sehar Neky

Connect Sehar is the Head of Recruitment at Kenyans Come Home, a Jack Hammer Africa partner. KCH is a Nairobi-based executive recruitment firm dedicated to connecting talented Kenyan and International professionals to exciting opportunities within the East African...

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Donna Steyn

Donna began her career as a writer and marketer for various online journals. She developed a keen interest in all things digital and, in 2010, she joined an award-winning London start-up that's widely recognised as one of the world's most innovative wine companies....

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Adri Muller

Adri is an experienced financial professional who has gained expertise in a range of industries, on different continents. She audited non-profit organisations in Washington, D.C. and specialised in Value Added Tax for a few years before moving on to commerce where she...

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Jane Fish

With over 11 years of brand strategy & creative marketing experience, Jane’s superpower is developing & stewarding brands that stand out. A strong strategic thinker, she looks at brands from multiple lenses to uncover what makes them remarkable.  Jane started...

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Lonwabo Lamani

Connect Lonwabo is Data Manager at Jack Hammer Global, providing data-driven solutions to help impact the success of the group. He is a highly organised and detail-oriented professional, with a passion for taking on complex challenges – particularly in high growth...

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Dominique Tarr aka “Dom”

Connect With a background in Design and Advertising, combined with many years of client relationship management, Dom is a multi-skilled creative problem solver who has worked in advertising, retail, media, design studios and financial services. She loves nothing more...

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Linda Cuthbertson

Connect Linda brings a bold, entrepreneurial spirit to the world of executive search. With more than two decades of experience, she has led high-stakes searches across multiple sectors, from engineering to FMCG to public enterprise — always with an eye on what’s next....

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Phumelela Mekuto

Connect Phumelela comes with extensive experience in sales and recruitment, gained in retail and higher education in a range of roles. Her Masters degree has provided the foundation for rigorous research, but her application of these skills extends beyond academia,...

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Michelle Penhall

Connect Michelle's years on the ‘other side of the desk’ as business partner to leaders and human capital executives in large corporations like Barclays Africa and Standard Bank have equipped her with fundamental perspectives on clients’ challenges and the ability to...

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Zinzi Baatjes

Connect Zinzi is the undisputed champion of organisation at Jack Hammer. So much so that several of our executive clients have tried to headhunt her away from us. Thankfully, the variety of her portfolio, amazing work friends and ongoing learning opportunities at Jack...

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San-Marie Barnard

Connect San-Marie brings a global approach to executive search, with more than twelve years’ experience leading executive and C-level recruitment projects in a range of industry sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa, the USA, South America and MENA. With her broad range...

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Michelle Bedford-Shaw

Michelle grew up in a mining town on the Copperbelt in Zambia and moved to South Africa to finish school and then pursue a law degree. She completed her studies – and promptly disappointed her parents by deciding not to be a lawyer.

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Debbie Goodman

Debbie is Group CEO of Jack Hammer, a global group of executive search, talent advisory and leadership coaching companies. For more than 20 years she has partnered with some of the world’s most progressive companies, NPOs and VC-backed disruptors, in the USA and Africa, to help them find great leaders who drive growth and impact.

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Barbara Hooper

Connect Barbara is a global headhunter with the African continent’s largest executive search firm. She has spent her career constantly seeking to perfect her craft and is recognised as the go-to person for challenging leadership roles across all industry sectors and...

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Advaita Naidoo

While completing her Masters in Research Psychology, Advaita embarked on a brief but successful career in academia, seeing her work published internationally and being recognised as a meaningful contributor in several studies.

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