Nicolas Regisford is the Chief Marketing Officer at Mi-Fone (BVI) Limited, a company specialising in manufacturing of phones and accessories. He holds a degree in Media and Communications from the University of Central England and is based in South Africa.
Nicolas began his professional career working on commercial radio in South Africa, he worked for YFM, KAYA FM, and Metro FM. As a keen content producer, Nicolas went on to executively produce television in South Africa and later, across the continent for MNET music and entertainment channels. After five years as an executive producer, Nicolas formed a media, music and entertainment company with his then radio partner, the popular DJ (Glen) Lewis Tshinaba, focusing on mainstream advertising and branded entertainment.
In 2006, Nicolas made his first foray into the African continent with a consultancy to provide creative marketing and activation solution services for Motorola, where he met Mi-Fone CEO Alpesh Patel. Together, they embarked on an aggressive marketing campaign for Motorola in 15 African countries, which got both of them recognized by their respective industries. Nicolas went on to youth based marketing and experiential work for Coca-Cola and Voice of America. He is the Chief Executive of YSC Consulting and a Non-Executive Director of a retail business in Soweto.
Tidi Khobane, a mother of two daughters, is the Chief Operations Officer of Matemeku Group (Pty) Ltd, a diversified equity investment group with interest in various sectors including transport solutions, financial services, tourism, industrial, logistics and ticketing. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Communication Law, Public Administration, Industrial Psychology and Politics.
Tidi’s previous experience includes being Chief Director at the Department of Foreign Affairs (Deputy Chief of State Protocol). Her responsibilities included managing the international travel logistics of both the President and the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa; implementation of the Act that governs the stay of foreign embassies in South Africa, and protocol training and advice to all the provinces and municipalities in South Africa. Her role also included the formulation of policies and procedures and ensuring the implementation thereof, budget preparation and monitoring thereof. She also managed a senior team of 12 individuals including Directors and Deputy Directors.
She has served as a Director at Meropa Communications, heading the company’s Cape Town office and responsible mainly to assist corporate companies with development of corporate strategies, government lobbying on legislation, government relations, media strategies and media relations. Tidi was an International Relations Officer at the Cape Town 2004 Olympic Bid, responsible for stakeholder relations and protocol coordination for Government, local and international business and the International Olympic Committee. She was employed at Eskom Cape Distribution as an Employee Well-being Manager. Tidi’s strengths include corporate governance, excellent analytical and organizational skills, strong leadership and management skills, excellent operations management skills, policy and procedure formulation and the implementation thereof. These strengths contribute to the growth she is involved in both her capacity as an Executive Director and Non-Executive Director.
Making Moves in its 5th season celebrates and promotes young successful South African entrepreneurs. The award winning television show airs on SABC1 Mondays at 13h30. Each week Making Moves profiles a budding entrepreneur who runs a company that has been in existence for over a year, is between the ages of 18 and 35, can prove some level of cash flow into the business, but has some teething problems. The role of the judge is based in the boardroom during pitching sessions. The entrepreneur will pitch for an investment of R10 000 to a panel of three judges, who then decide, after deliberations, on how much they are willing to invest in the company. The judges also award points to the entrepreneur for their performance on the task that they received from the mentor.
