BIO

Jacqui is a B2B2B go-to-market (GTM) advisor at Microsoft for the Middle East and Africa. She has over 20 years of experience in B2B GTM, with extensive cross-industry marketing experience working as the Consulting Africa CMO at Deloitte and senior GTM positions at Microsoft EMEA. She is passionate about the empowerment of women, and the digital transformation of the African economy as a way to become internationally relevant and globally competitive. She holds a degree in Visual Communication from the AAA School of Advertising and a BCom Marketing Management as well as various additional qualifications. With an unwavering growth mindset, she constantly pursues opportunities for personal development & growth. In her free time, Jacqui enjoys a role on the council of an environmental conservancy in her home on the Garden Route, loves to spend time outdoors with her husband and two sons and runs TEDx Knysna with a fellow woman in tech, to champion ideas worth sharing and catalyse innovation.