I believe that our people are our most valuable asset, and we need to create an environment where they can freely share their opinions and they can learn, grow and excel. RX AFRICA prides itself on inclusion and diversity and encourages entrepreneurship as we strive to empower our people to create impactful events that always keep our clients’ needs at the front and centre.
Carol brings a diverse working background in the business, tourism and events industry to RX AFRICA. Over 30 years, Carol’s career has expanded into many sectors across the industry, and her expertise spans marketing, exhibition management, events, conferences, and venue and facility management.
She was the first-ever female chairperson of the Exhibition and Event Association of Southern Africa (EXSA) and former chairperson of the Association of African Exhibition Organisers (AAXO), which was formed to provide a collective platform of address and representation for professional exhibition organisers throughout Africa. In 2018, Carol was named a board member for the African Tourism Board.
Thanks to her continued passion, hard work, dedication and management, RX AFRICA is one of the largest and most successful exhibition and venue management companies in Southern Africa, and is growing its footprint across the African continent with many new ventures already underway or in the pipeline.
Gcobisa is a dynamic Human Resources Professional with experience in enabling business delivery in both the Petrochemical and Banking sectors. A proven track-record of delivering business results through focusing on value creation and unlocking opportunities to enable business delivery.
She has experience in developing Human Resources strategy that is aligned to business drivers and leading teams within a matrixed organisation to successfully execute. Gcobisa is a customer centric leader who is a visionary by nature and has ability to engage and leverage leadership style to inspire teams from diverse backgrounds for optimal performance.
A passionate, engaging leader who has the ability to balance both long term strategic and short-term tactical people management aspects, Gcobisa has worked with different business executives across various sectors in South Africa and abroad and always ensures that the Human Capital aspects drive overall impact on P&L.
By being smart enough to listen humbly to our customers’ challenges, but wise enough to understand their needs and create solutions, we can curate magical experiences and new ways to serve our customers that delight them with the things they value most, both face to face and virtually - experiences I passionately believe in delivering.
As far as career journeys go, Richard’s certainly had an interesting start when he found himself in his first role as a management graduate (for a now long defunct airline) scooping live shellfish from the cargo hold of an airplane in Freetown, Sierra Leone! But it was from this experience and over the following years working across West Africa, Latin America, Europe and Japan that Richard truly caught the travel bug that would ultimately lead him to joining RX UK in 2006 as Managing Director of the Travel division.
With a background in business management and accountancy, and having previously held senior management roles as Director International Sales, Services and Marketing EMEA for US Airways, as well as a variety of roles in Revenue Management, Pricing and Product Development for United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic, Richard brings plenty of international experience that has proved invaluable for both his first role at RX and successive roles. In 2013 Richard became Chief Executive Officer for the UK business and in 2014 added responsibility for Sub Saharan Africa as well. A common theme is Richard’s desire to work in a business that prides itself on bringing together people from all walks of life for many different reasons, the serendipity of travel and people sparking new opportunities from meeting face to face.
In his current role as Chief Commercial Officer for RX, which he has held since 2016, Richard is responsible for developing and implementing the RX global commercial strategy. He has been instrumental in helping RX to overcome the challenges both during and post-pandemic and encouraging organic growth, launches and acquisitions across the business.
As Director - Finance for RX Africa, Shamaine is responsible for the financial planning and delivery of the strategic direction of the business; as well as managing the finance and compliance, providing direction, leadership and succession.
With almost two decades of experience in the finance field from an array of industries including but not limited to accounting services, private education, and the motor industry, Shamaine provides strong support for management decision making and managing strategic direction.
In addition to her finance background, Shamaine also holds a B.Comm Law degree which fuels her passion and commitment to servicing the business in its commercial endeavours, thereby providing protean support.
