Lizelle Kemp

A highly experienced International Business Development Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital, healthcare, and more recently in the food services industry, Lizelle Kemp is a Senior Marketing and Business Development Executive and Leader who possesses more than 27 years of key industry experience and proven leadership capabilities.

With her BA in Communication Science focused on Communication and Media Studies from Unisa, Lizelle has spent close-on two decades in service of leading national and international organizations. Entrepreneurially minded, business-oriented, and bottom-line driven, she sports a track record of consistent professional brand building and sales achievement.

During her long tenure with the South African National Defence Force, specializing in Marketing Services, she gained expertise in an environment where challenges in the field were constant and the mandate to achieve mentally and physically were prerequisites to success, which she achieved with commendation.

Her subsequent career path in the leadership of varied marketing environments, primarily within the services industry, armed Lizelle with solid experience in internal and external marketing, event management, client relationship management, international business development, and sales and international relations achievements.

As International Business Development Manager for Netcare 911 – a subsidiary for South Africa’s largest Private Hospital Group - and more recently as International Sales Director for Valley Macadamia Sales Limited in Mauritius, she juggled extensive international travel to attend global conferences with unrelenting deal-closing and business development efforts, which she achieved with proven persistence in getting ‘the deal’ and making the ‘sale’.

She has spearheaded an incredibly broad array of key consumer and corporate events ranging from intimate functions, client breakaway weekends, and golf days, to mega and signature sporting events, including leading medical emergency standby at the Comrades Marathon, one of the largest international marathons in the world, Soweto Marathon, Two Oceans, and the 94.7 Cycle Challenge for Netcare 911. More recently she planned and executed various international company exhibitions for Valley Macadamias Sales Ltd e.g. Sial Paris, Gulfood Dubai.

Particularly competent and seasoned in project management, with a practised practical approach to the implementation of new innovations and ideas, Lizelle can execute an array of marketing briefs with lean efficiency, crystal clear focus on profit targets, and a client-centric approach to service excellence. Her innate sense of urgency and keen attention to detail in fast-moving environments has earned Lizelle the proficiency to streamline projects and results in an ever-changing marketing environment.