Johanna mcdowell
IAS Founder and Managing Director
Johanna has built her career in marketing and advertising since 1974, starting out in marketing in the UK then holding directorships in both South Africa and British advertising agencies until she was appointed Managing Director of Grey – Phillips Advertising in 1988. She joined Mazole Holdings in 2005 as CEO and founded the IAS in 2007.
Nikki munsie
IAS Business Director
Nikki has more than 25 years of experience in marketing and advertising, with the last 13 of those being in a consulting role. She has strong relationship management skills and is able to identify service gaps in client agency relationships with ease and to put the appropriate new structures in place. Nikki’s industry knowledge enables her to facilitate pitch processes with confidence as well as managing the IAS’s comprehensive master class programme.
hlamazi mabunda
IAS Project Manager
Hlamazi is a AAA School of Advertising Integrated Marketing Communications graduate who works as a Project Manager and Consultant at the Independent Agency Search and Selection Company. Her background is in agency and marketing roles where she has worked in Pitch Consultancy, Inbound & Email Marketing. She has strong process management, strategic and relationship building skills. Her key responsibilities include the streamlining of processes in order to make them more efficient, data management, the management of the IAS customer relationship programmes as well as Client : Agency relationship consulting.