About

About Leon Lategan

CEO at Independent Online i.e. www.iol.co.za – the digital division of Independent Newspapers where we launched 11 newspaper titles including www.theargus.co.za, www.thestar.co.za, www.capetimes.co.za & www.businessreport.co.za.

Founder & CEO of one of South Africa’s top digital marketing agencies; Purple Cow, which I sold to Yellow Pages in 2012.

Launching 3 initiatives to assist the most vulnerable sectors of our society in terms of unemployment: www.scooler.co.za, www.theblacklion.co.za and www.theladylion.co.za for school, black and women entrepreneurs respectively.

Being invited to be the keynote speaker at events all around the globe and recently invited to speak at the African Youth Entrepreneur Summit in Botswana, the IMM Graduate School Graduate Ceremony in South Africa, the African Women in Leadership Conference in Rwanda, the HeForShe Africa Summit in Nigeria, the Afripreneur Conference in Ghana, the African Entrepreneur Conference in South Africa and the Customer 360 Africa Conference in South Africa.

Having worked with some of South Africa’s biggest brands including Vodacom, Pam Golding Properties, Jeep, Virgin Active, The Foschini Group, Nedbank, Nu Metro & many more.

Being voted the top speaker at 15 Sales & Marketing Conferences in Southern Africa over the past few years.