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2Stroke’s Online Marketing Consultants
CEO
Jakes is a self-proclaimed tech evangelist. As a software coder who has a keen eye for design and is able to speak the language of business, he’s found his metier in digital marketing.
After picking up a B.Com from the University of Stellenbosch he moved to London where he held IT roles with the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority and the London Stock Exchange.
On his return to South Africa, he founded and sold a number of software development companies before establishing 2Stroke in 2008 with his business partner Charlie Stewart.
A hands-on CEO, he’s actively involved in all aspects of the business.
He gets out of bed to the sound of Henry Ford’s mantra ringing in his ears “No process starts until a sale is made”.
Marketing Director
Charlie is deeply grounded in marketing. Before his digital epiphany, he spent a decade in London’s traditional marketing world where he advised companies ranging from Accenture to Tesco.
A graduate from Scotland’s University of St Andrews, he holds qualifications from the Communications Advertising & Marketing Foundation and is a member of the Institute of Public Relations.
As well as driving our own marketing and new business initiatives, Charlie is responsible for defining strategy and overseeing implementation of our client’s marketing projects.
He’s an advocate for the philosophy of David Ogilvy, the granddaddy of advertising. “If we hire people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if we hire people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.”
Traffic and Project Management
Our cheerleader in many respects, Elzabi has just about been forgiven for supporting the Bulls despite living in the Cape. Claims she’d live outdoors if it wasn't for noise, mozzies and 300 percale Egyptian cotton. Sounds like bull to us.
In her spare time (what's that she says?), she tries to exercise her bicycles and lives by the motto "Carpe Diem - Catch of the day!" hmmm... taxi to Kuils River anyone?
Wessel Badenhorst
Chief Whip
Wessel describes himself as a lover and a fighter, constantly struggling to keep the balance that any true renaissance man should have. He left his sleepy existence in the country to sink his teeth into the fast paced action of the city, blindly hoping not to break his teeth. In his free time he dances and fights, competitively that is. He has a serious appetite for books and ate his first newspaper before he could talk, so our nearly paperless office might leave him hungry for more.
He read that: "Difficulties are the walls around success that keep the unworthy out." Now he's just trying to figure out who put the mote there.
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Business Analyst
An android fiend, Chris professes to hate Apple (but we’ve spotted his surreptitious envy-laden glances at our iPhones and iPads). He doesn’t like designers as he reckons he has to re-do all their work, and he tends to think he’s always right. You could add General Know All to his title and neither he nor his colleagues would complain. Fun guy to have around huh?
But he’s a damn good business analyst who love cars and animals. And he does volunteer at the local animal welfare centre – which segues seamlessly into his life’s purpose: “We have a tendency to focus excessively on the positive with those we like and excessively on the negative for folks we don't, and no person is all good or all bad.” No, don’t show him the Jekyll & Hyde re-run.
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Business Analyst Intern
Luc tells us everything he does is structured and according to a specific routine because of his love for strategy. But before you jump to the conclusion that that’s typical of the fawning, obsequious behaviour you’d expect from an intern, ask him how he stirs his coffee. Precisely two and a quarter turns in an anti-clockwise direction.
It might not be thrilling, but that level of structure is pretty important for a business analyst. After all, Luc spends half his life trying to make sense of what clients want. The rest is dedicated to marshalling the studio (talk about herding cats) and QCing their work .
Out of the office, he’s a hiker and can spend hours enjoying the great outdoors. He’s a strong believer in a living a healthy lifestyle - physically, mentally and spiritually. Oh, and he likes facial hair.
Which leads to a hirstute and favourite quote by Rod Kimble, “Every great man has a moustache.”
Bernice Wasson
Sales
This sooper-dooper lady is so effervescent, we call her Berocca. Bernice defines her life by the character Scrat - the sabre-toothed squirrel-rat from the Ice Age movies, who’s forever hunting for his acorn.
Having swapped Egoli for the mountain, she loves nothing more than a sitting in front of a cold-banishing winter fire with a bottle of Merlot in hand. To quote Scrat – “Aahhhhh”
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William Warren
Web Developer
An all too consuming interest in World of Warcraft means he’s often mistaken for William Wallace. Or rather, his Avatar is. But that’s in his spare time.
In the office, William is a coffee fiend of note who produces some pretty awesome websites. He lives by the words of Julius Caesar - "Veni, vidi, vici". Calloused hands attest to the first, a radical squint to the second, while his Drupal skills, complete the picture.
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Nicole Lambon
Front end developer
Nicole’s a CSS fundi who joined us from across the pond (we mean the Tyger Waterfront, not the Atlantic ocean). When she’s not playing guitar hero on Google’s latest homepage design, she’s keeping up to date with the latest web trends.
She wants to de-complicate life, which sounds quite complex, but more importantly, she likes chocolate flavoured drinks. As her mentor Pooh said to Piglet, "Life is so much friendlier with two.".
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Designer
Candice is our Web designer, and suitably passionate about anything creative in design. She enjoys scratching around in Photoshop to find some interesting tool. She's an All Black rugby fan and claims they look as good as they play. And you don’t need to check out a photo of Keven Mealamu to see that this lady’s either got a great sense of humour or she’s a little macabre.
She’s mad for Albert Einstein and agrees that "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Meggan Kristiansen
SEO Project Manager
I enjoy my life online, and am convinced that one day I will have to wear glasses because of it.
I like projects and I like simplicity.
I Love innovation and ideas, and believe that these two ‘ life forms ‘ are driven to the edge with powerful knowledge.
I wish I could spend more of my days learning and then implementing that knowledge.
My hero is Steve Jobs because of his life philosophies. In a speech to Oxford University Graduates he stated:
‘Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking’- this sort of smacked me in the face the first time I read it.
Johann Conradie
SEO Fundi
Johann reckons his liberal views always seem to get him in trouble. Then again, he’s proud to say he’s an ape. But don’t pick a fight with him, because he reckons his knowledge of our stunning planet and Universe will thwart your argument.
He loves plants, cooking, electro indie music and dancing. Just the sort of mysterious and edgy quirks that we’re looking for in our SEO and social media team. What’s more, he’s developed his own meat marinade called: “Gees sous”. Not surprisingly, he lives by the unattributed saying “Hippie, Pantheist and nice guy, ‘till I die!”.
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2012/02/07
When and Why to use Newsletters
2012/02/03
How you can match Business to Social Media
2012/01/30
How to Build an E-Mailing List
Brett van Zyl
SEO Intern
Brett studied marketing in the traditional sense, but his interest in writing and research took him into the digital world. He reckons he’s still trying to work out how it happened, although his memory’s probably been hit by too many late nights boozing in Bob Skinstad’s bar where he used to work.
He tends to look for humour in just about everything, which he reckons lands him in trouble every now and then. Judging by his jokes, it’s the lack of humour that’s more likely to land him in trouble. Maybe it’s the way he tells them.
A big music fan, Brett enjoys playing guitar and listens to just about anything from electronic to indie rock. When he’s not immersed in the world of digital, he runs and surfs and plays Playstation for mental fitness (see what we mean about the humour stuff).
He’s a fan of David Frost: “Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
Design + Content Princess
A design and content princess whose skills with the office cappuccino machine have endeared her to us all, Kirsten digs walking and all those things there’s no time for. Which is a shame as her commitment to work means there’s, well, no time for them.
Reckons she’s pretty funny. Even though she’s the only one who laughs at her jokes. A real go getter who’s impressed us with her desire to learn, Kirsten lives by the words of Coco Chanel: “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
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