Adrian Hewlett Email & Phone Number

In 2004, at the age of 26, Adrian Hewlett founded The Habari Group, a media and marketing communications company. The company was the partner to MSN in Africa for seven years and then went on to launch the commercial operations for Facebook in Africa in 2010, while counting the likes of the BBC and LinkedIn amongst its partners. Habari Media won the Best Digital Media Sales House award at the 2010 Bookmark Awards. In the same year Hewlett was awarded the Greatest Individual Contribution to Digital Media and Marketing. In 2011, The Mail and Guardian named him one of the Top 200 Young South Africans. In 2012 with an annual group turnover of R150 million, Adrian led the company through a major re-organisation of its agency offering which saw the consolidation and launch of MACHINE. MACHINE ranked 9th at the Loeries in 2012. At the 2013 Finweek Adreview, Adrian was recognized as the individual Ad Achiever of the year for his role in the greater advertising industry and MACHINE the breakthrough agency of the year. In 2014 MACHINE was ranked as the “national agency to watch” in the MarkLives agency survey. The agency was then acquired by French advertising giant Publicis Groupe in September 2014 and Adrian appointed as CEO of the newly branded Publicis Machine. The agency continues on its upward path, is now one of the largest agencies in South Africa. Today as the CEO of Sealand Gear, he brings years of experience, dedication, and acute organisational skills to Sealand to elevate the brand and the operations that uphold it. Sealand is a business built for good with a clear mission to make the planet better, something close to his personal values. Adrian grew up in Mozambique and is a fluent French and Portuguese speaker.

Listed skills include Online Advertising, Mobile Marketing, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, and 3 others.

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  University Of Cape Town

  Marketing