Christian Schmidt
CEO
Christian Schmidt founded Vetro Media in 2009. He began his career at The Creative Counsel and has been in the industry for 15 years. Christian has led the growth of Vetro’s digital services and its journey within a digital world. When he’s not on the phone, tapping away at his keyboard or joining a Teams meeting, you can find him enjoying his leisure time with his family or playing sport.
Christian Schmidt
CEO
Christian Schmidt founded Vetro Media in 2009. He began his career at The Creative Counsel and has been in the industry for 15 years. Christian has led the growth of Vetro’s digital services and its journey within a digital world. When he’s not on the phone, tapping away at his keyboard or joining a Teams meeting, you can find him enjoying his leisure time with his family or playing sport.
Dean Rajh-Gopaul
Director of Strategy
While Dean believes his official title is Chief of Cheesecake, the acronym didn’t quite lend itself to socially acceptable conversation, so he has reluctantly settled for the title of Director of Strategy. While this acronym is only marginally better, it’s worth noting that in such a highly competitive world, it’s these fine margins that set us apart. With over a decade’s experience across various industries and blue-chip brands and practicing strategy from traditional to digital , Dean has helped businesses realise results across the consumer life cycle, from brand building, through to sales and retention.
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Brigitte Cook
Head of Sales
Brigitte is like the Swiss Army Knife of the sales team – flexible, adaptable and always dependable. Her area of expertise includes sales and building and maintaining client relationships. She has experienced living in many different parts of the world including the USA and the UK. Her career highlights include winning awards at the global companies she has worked for.
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Manager
Brigitte Cook
Head of Sales
Brigitte is like the Swiss Army Knife of the sales team – flexible, adaptable and always dependable. Her area of expertise includes sales and building and maintaining client relationships. She has experienced living in many different parts of the world including the USA and the UK. Her career highlights include winning awards at the global companies she has worked for.
Marc Hurwitz
Head of Development
Marc heads up Vetro’s development team, technological platforms and strategy. He specialises in solving the most complex challenges with the right blend and application of technologies and getting the most out of our awesome team of developers. In his spare time he likes to collect old LP’s and playing airsoft with his son.
Soné Janson
Head of Social Media
Soné handles all things social media, she has several years’ experience in constructing Social Media ad campaigns and manages client accounts on various social platforms. When she’s not obsessing about increasing Budget ROI, she keeps the office going by showing us the most hilarious Tik Tok videos, ensuring that everyone has had lunch and spending time with her family and friends.
Soné Janson
Head of Social Media
Soné handles all things social media, she has several years’ experience in constructing Social Media ad campaigns and manages client accounts on various social platforms. When she’s not obsessing about increasing Budget ROI, she keeps the office going by showing us the most hilarious Tik Tok videos, ensuring that everyone has had lunch and spending time with her family and friends.
Pariksha Coetzee
Head of Client Service
Pariksha’s background encompasses senior-level coordination of projects for a diverse range of brand marketing campaigns. With experience gained over the years in client service, she serves as the main point of contact for our clients, including communicating reports to them and conveying their needs and expectations to team members.
Ludwig Spies
Head of Content
Ludwig is a creative chimera with a wide academic background and industry experience. His speciality is linguistics and language (he speaks several). Ludwig conceives creative and strategic communications and critiques all creative output at Vetro. In ad-land, Ludwig has worked on major accounts, ranging from healthcare and insurance to lifestyle and the arts. In real life, Ludwig has worked as an educator, developing both programmes and people.
Ludwig Spies
Head of Content
Ludwig is a creative chimera with a wide academic background and industry experience. His speciality is linguistics and language (he speaks several). Ludwig conceives creative and strategic communications and critiques all creative output at Vetro. In ad-land, Ludwig has worked on major accounts, ranging from healthcare and insurance to lifestyle and the arts. In real life, Ludwig has worked as an educator, developing both programmes and people.
Lizan Goncalves
Head of Motion Graphics
Once destined for a job as an accountant, Lizan discovered that her true passion is design, where she now shines as our animator extraordinaire who brings frames to life with captivating skill and creativity. When she’s not conjuring visual magic, Lizan can be found gaming and writing short fantasy novels. When asked what the title of her memoir would be, Lizan exclaims: The Marvelous Misadventures of a Burnt Flapjack! With her creativity and imagination, it would definitely be one to read.
Emmanuel Nkhumeleni
Head of Graphic Design
Emmanuel aka Manny may be soft-spoken but his work speaks volumes. A graphic design aficionado, Manny’s passion for visual arts started at a young age when he would create his own comic books. Now he thrives on creating beautiful digital designs that captivate audiences. When he’s not busy designing, you can find Manny indulging in his love for gaming and binge-watching his latest Netflix obsession. But that’s not all! Manny has quite a few hidden talents up his sleeve, including photography and breakdancing. And if it weren’t for design, Manny would likely be exploring the cosmos with NASA.
Emmanuel Nkhumeleni
Head of Graphic Design
Emmanuel aka Manny may be soft-spoken but his work speaks volumes. A graphic design aficionado, Manny’s passion for visual arts started at a young age when he would create his own comic books. Now he thrives on creating beautiful digital designs that captivate audiences. When he’s not busy designing, you can find Manny indulging in his love for gaming and binge-watching his latest Netflix obsession. But that’s not all! Manny has quite a few hidden talents up his sleeve, including photography and breakdancing. And if it weren’t for design, Manny would likely be exploring the cosmos with NASA.