Director of Partner Marketing at GetSmarter, a 2U brand. Previously led digital marketing at Unilever and in the non-profit sector. Operator, researcher, and part-time lecturer at CPUT. I work at the intersection of data, strategy and people — making complexity feel simple and actionable.
Spring arrives early here. Cape Town doesn’t wait for the calendar to feel like a fresh start, and neither do I. September always catches me mid-stride: still chasing the kilometres I promised myself in January, still teaching on the side, still noticing how much of the work that actually changes me happens before the rest of the city is awake.
What I’m learning, again, is that discipline and judgement aren’t the same thing. You can show up every morning and still take the lazy interpretation of your own life. The easy story about progress. The flattering read of a busy calendar. The version of “I’m fine” that sounds finished because it ends cleanly.
I’ve been protecting the parts that don’t polish well. The half-formed research idea. The run that was just hard and didn’t teach a lesson. The conversations where I don’t yet know what I think. AI is excellent at turning those into something that looks resolved. I’m less interested in resolved than I used to be.
The pattern holds: the easy answer still does too much of the talking. My job, on the page and on the road, is to notice when I’m letting it.
I'm a marketing leader based in Cape Town, working at the intersection of performance, growth, and higher education. I've helped world-class universities and institutions turn ambitious enrolment goals into measurable outcomes. UCT, MIT, Yale, LSE, Harvard, Cambridge.
At GetSmarter, a 2U brand, I'm a senior leader on the Partner Marketing team. Before that, I spent years deep inside the performance funnel: forecasting, attribution, paid media, and the unglamorous work of making numbers move. Numbers were how I learned the craft. Relationships are how I extend its reach.
Off the clock, I'm a peer-reviewed researcher, a part-time lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and Chair of its Marketing Advisory Committee.
I'm also a long-distance runner. Two Oceans Half Marathon finisher & ultramarathon finisher. The road taught me something the office rarely does: the work that compounds is the work nobody sees.
Senior leader on the partner marketing team. Managing the relationships between GetSmarter and our institutional partners, and shaping how those needs translate into our marketing strategy.
Stepped into the chair role, helping shape the next generation of marketers entering the industry, and giving back to the institution that shaped me.
Started teaching part-time in the Marketing Department. Joined the Industry Advisory Board the same year. Teaching forces clarity in a way the day job rarely does.
Published research with Professor R.G. Duffett on social media marketing strategy in health-related non-profits. Two papers in 2024, with a handful in the pipeline.
Completed at CPUT. The bridge between practitioner and researcher, the lens that now shapes how I work.
Started as a Marketing Analyst. Six years and four roles later, the same instinct still applies: let the data tell you where to look, then trust the judgement to decide what to do about it.
Marketing intern at Berge Farrell Strategic Brand Design, then Communications Assistant and eventually Communications Officer at HPCA. The early roles where I learned that good marketing is, at its core, just clear thinking made visible.
Senior member of the partner marketing team, managing the relationships between GetSmarter and a portfolio of world-class university and institutional partners. Collaborate with executive leadership and cross-functional teams on portfolio performance, growth planning, and how partner needs translate into our marketing strategy.
Directed end-to-end performance marketing for university partners. Oversaw an annual advertising portfolio in excess of USD $50 million across paid search, social, programmatic, and partner channels. Built the forecasting and KPI frameworks used by senior leadership.
Led performance marketing strategy for prestigious institutions including UCT, MIT, Yale, LSE, Harvard, Cambridge, IBM, and Microsoft. Owned the full marketing cycle from lead generation to conversion, with a sharp focus on qualified prospect volume and cost efficiency.
Owned attribution, campaign performance, and revenue prediction models. Surfaced the insights that informed channel investment, regional prioritisation, and campaign optimisation for the strategy team.
Supported the strategy team with data analysis, reporting, and ROI optimisation across paid media, with an emphasis on data integrity and decision-ready insights.
Led B2B digital marketing for Unilever Food Solutions, building tailored programmes for chefs, delis, and canteens, and strengthening digital visibility across the foodservice channel.
Led global digital marketing for an international hospice-care platform. Returned as consultant from 2020 to 2022 to guide hospices through their Covid-19 digital pivot.
Built integrated marketing and communications strategies, combining digital campaigns and traditional channels into a cohesive brand narrative for the national umbrella body of South African hospices.
Four peer-reviewed papers on social media marketing in health-related non-profit organisations, co-authored with Prof. R.G. Duffett. 50+ citations on Google Scholar and counting.
View on Google Scholar →Co-authored with R.G. Duffett. Published in the Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, 37(3), 373–397.
A qualitative Technology Acceptance Model viewpoint. Co-authored with R.G. Duffett. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 10, 101042.
Co-authored with R.G. Duffett. Published by BP International.
Master's research at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The foundational study from which the published papers extended. Download the full thesis (PDF).
I lecture part-time in marketing at CPUT, chair its Marketing Advisory Committee, and speak at industry events on performance marketing, data-led decision-making, and the realities of growth in higher education. Open to keynotes, panels, podcasts, and guest lectures.
A mid-year report on running 2,026 kilometres in 2026. 1,048 done. 978 still to go.
What I hand to a model, what I protect from it, and the line I've stopped crossing.
Most weekends I'm on the road. Some mornings, I'm running the dark at 5am with the Renegade Running Co crew. Discipline shows up before the sun does, and so do they.
