Boniswa Pezisa

Executive Director, Network BBDO

Common Purpose Trustee

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Boniswa Pezisa has just been elected Executive Chairperson BBDO SA which includes 4 Marketing & Communication Companies, and a board member Shinda Capital. She has worked in marketing positions in big corporations and has extensive advertising experience in both below- and above-the-line advertising.

She's Deputy Chair Person of the Association for Communication & Advertising (ACA), sits the Advertising Standards Consumer Complaints' Committee of the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa [ASASA]. Pezisa also sits on the advisory boards of the Loeries Awards Company, NGOs: Common Purpose SA, Cape Town Ballet Competition and The Dreamfields Project.

She is married with two children. Her hobbies are photography, reading and listening to Jazz, when not doing home-work or finger-painting with her little children. She holds an under-graduate certificate in Management and Advanced Programme (MAP) with WITS Business School and is completing a Thesis for the MBA.