Donovan Hegland

Donovan qualified with a BCom (Hons) (Business Economics). He joined Distell as marketing director: southern Africa in 2010. In 2015 he moved on to head up the Africa business. Donovan took over the global marketing function at the end of 2017 and transitioned the role into growth and innovation for the Group, focused on transformational strategy, foresight and insight development, health and profitability of the brand portfolio, break out innovation, digital transformation and marketing capability development. His areas of expertise include Africa, general management, marketing and sales, innovation and digital transformation, human resources and agile leadership.