Marc Du Plessis

• Led the acquisition of 2 online travel companies, both showing 30% growth month on month
• Concluded a partnership agreements between 8 digital companies, growing all businesses user bases and brand equity by an average of 40%
• My merger and restructuring efforts led to a 50% drop in Opex costs without losing output across 2 group digital divisions
• Lead a high performance digital shared services team of 70 people, showing 50% increase in turnover, with 50% drop on Opex
• Perform Non-Executive and Strategy functions on 8 company boards

Key Achievements

• R150m worth of successful acquisitions
• 50% growth in revenue with 1 year

• Afristay.com - Second largest South African accommodation portal
• INCE - Investor relations platform
• Response24 - Security and Medical Emergency alert services platform aggregator
• Healthspas.co.za - Health and Lifestyle spa aggregator
• Privateproperty.co.za - South Africa's number 2 real estate platform
• Cognition Holdings - Stock Exchange listed digital business holding company
• Safari.com - Online safari travel service provider
• SelectCast - SaaS video streaming, Video On Demand OTT platform
• Guzzle.co.za - Retail catalogue aggregator

Key Achievements

• Drove a successful strategy pivot resulting in 30% growth in client base
• Negotiated and concluded a successful business partnership resulting in 20% increase in brand equity

• Built culture and skills within print and digital teams to achieve targets of over R400m
• Received Industry award for top sales business in media industry

• I conceptualized and launched digital revenue channels that grew more than 100% in 1 year
• I led implementation teams to onboard Programmatic advertising tech stacks onto over 100 websites, resulting in R10m annual new revenue
• I led data management platform software implementation, resulting in collecting a unique identifiable audience of over 5m people

• Led a team of Product Managers, Developers, SEO Specialists and Content Managers to build an online catalogue aggregator that grew to 500,000 users in 18 months
• Successfully negotiated the acquisition and merger of Guzzle and Dealfinder to create a business generating R1,5m annual profit, with over 750,000 users

• Launched and grew digital advertising revenue from zero for a large media company

• Managed sales team and targets of over R400m

• Manage and grow a portfolio of Key Accounts

• Manage a team of office managers, ski guides and au pairs
• Responsible for hosting and entertaining up to 100 clients per week in Saalbach, Austria