Jonathan Hugo Pienaar Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, WC, ZA

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

- Over the past 2-3 years led creative on high performance enterprise and government campaigns for the biggest IT brands in the world, including: HPE, CDW, Lumen, Droplet, Kelvin and Microsoft. - Greatest success here: the launch of HPE HCI 2.0 in the third quarter of 2020. This global campaign outperformed HPE’s budgeted expectations by some 200%.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• A content hot-shop, The Writers is a loose affiliation of creatives who work with brands to help them better connect and engage with the people that matter most. The group helps brands make marketing that is clear.
• Wrote the best-selling cover story of all time for Finweek,
• Proudest of the social justice work journalism done for GroundUp, and the journalism that exposed the flaws in SA’s education system and the… Show more A content hot-shop, The Writers is a loose affiliation of.
• Proudest of the social justice work journalism done for GroundUp, and the journalism that exposed the flaws in SA’s education system and the people working to rectify this. Show less

Cape Town, South Africa

- Onboarded as part of a turnaround strategy for the digital agency.- Helped lead a high impact content campaign to position the agency as an ecommerce implementation leader.- Together with the Platinum Seed’s research head, launched a pioneering study on e-commerce in Africa that positioned the agency alongside Visa and the African Ecommerce Forum. The.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

- Brief was to help launch the SaaS platform as the first choice for influencer marketing in South Africa and beyond. - Exceeded goals on this project by helping to create Africa’s first large-scale research study on social influence. Within months the unprecedented survey of 50 global brands secured high profile publicity, and scores of new clients who.

Edited for Carte Blanche producers for approximately 15 years, during which time also involved in the production of several inserts for same. Joint category winner of CNN African Journalist of the Year award (twice) and joint category winner of Citadel Words on Money awards (twice).

Editing, mainly in FCP7, basic Motion.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Built Modern Times into a multi-award-winning video media house that produced regular inserts for South Africa’s top actuality programme, Carte Blanche. Key achievements included:
• Directing content for Mark Shuttleworth’s First African In Space, including Carte Blanche coverage.
• Producing, writing and editing 13-episode series on Open Source software, "Go Open", sponsored by the Shuttleworth Foundation, CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) and HP.
• … Show more Built Modern Times into a multi-award-winning video media house that produced regular inserts for South Africa’s top actuality programme, Carte Blanche. Key achievements included:
• Editing the SA trailer for the Academy Award-winning movie "Tsotsi".
• Breaking the story of SA Rugby’s torture-shame camp, "Kamp Staaldraad", to the world.

Editor, supervising editor, supervisor of final online and sound

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Worked on several Nu Metro features, including "Dragonard 1/2", "Outlaw of Gor", "Masque of the Red Death", "Funny Face".- Graduated into video editing on TV documentaries and dramas as a freelance video editor. - Part of the broadcast TV industry when it was transitioning from tape-based systems to digital non-linear editing; and later, from standard.

Ba Dramatic Art, Drama, Film

Drama & Film

Matric, Senior School

Matriculated