Janine Rebelo

CEO @Think Wi-Fi

💼 C-level ExecutiveCEOCTOCMOExpansionCommunications and MediaCPOOperationsStrategy and Product growthGrowth MarketingProduct DevelopmentRisk ManagementCorporate Finance

Janine Rebelo is an experienced global Digital Media and ICT leader with over 20 years of experience in multinationals and startups in the SaaS, Ad-Tech, digital transformation, telecommunications, mobile, cloud, and SaaS industries. She has deep technology, commercial, governance and leadership expertise, and is comfortable with driving innovation while working with diverse cultures and geographies at senior executive and board levels. As the Chair of the Board and Non-Executive Director of Teleforge (Pty) Ltd, Janine successfully navigated the company through Covid lockdowns and restrictions, managed senior executive and Board performance reviews, addressed shareholder requests and challenges, and ensured financial, risk and governance compliance. She leveraged her professional network to drive rapid digital transformation and business continuity, while stabilising and growing revenues. Janine is also a founder member of Vodafone Business, a co-founder of Think Digital Media, and has played a key role in the growth of these companies. She was instrumental in establishing Liquid Telecom's Digital Transformation strategy and is a member of various industry bodies such as the Corporate Governance Institute UK and Woman on Boards UK. As the Co-founder and CEO of Think Digital Media, Janine spearheaded the development and scale-up of an Ad-Tech ‘As a Service’ platform across South Africa and Kenya, providing immersive mobile OOH DSP resources. Think Digital Media’s analytics-rich, trans-continental publishing platform serves over 245 million Ad impressions to 12+ million subscribers annually. Janine has also led both start-up investment as well as series A funding rounds and has grown the company's annual revenues to £1.5m since its inception in 2019. Previously, as the Chief Commercial Officer of Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Janine architected the company's Digital Transformation strategy, contributed to group revenue growth from £50.1 million to £106 million in two years, and led business development oppor

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Work Background

TForgeChair of the Board

Jan. 2019South Africa

Think Wifi Pty LtdChief Executive Officer

Jan. 2019

Liquid TelecomChief Commercial Officer

Sep. 2017 - Feb. 2019South Africa

Liquid TelecomChief Product Officer

Sep. 2017 - Mar. 2018401 Old Pretoria Rd, halfway house , midrand, 1685

VodafoneHead of Global Ethernet Product Development

Jul. 2005 - Sep. 2017

Vodafone Global EnterpriseHead of Global IP-VPN Product Development

Apr. 2014 - Apr. 2015GlobalResponsible for Technical Product Development of Global IP-VPN portfolio, establish roadmap delivery capability as well as flexible scalability to cope with demand fluctuations. Manage product architecture strategy and NPD approach whilst ensuring governance. Streamline and reduce RFS timelines. CAPEX/ OPEX management, Oversee budget utilisation relative to spend. Manage product roll-out and integration across selective VGE regions and Vodafone OpCos. Lead technology strategy on IP-VPN related innovation and growth inititatives. Internal up/downstream Stakeholder relations, resource and capacity management - permanent and outsourced. Oversee delivery management and escalations at portfolio level. Programme reviews at Exco delivery board.

VodacomExecutive Head Access solutions

Oct. 2007 - Apr. 2014•Head-up team responsible for commercial and technical product development, product integration (with OSS / BSS systems) and launch readiness for enterprise last mile access including Metro-e, Dedicated fibre, FTTx, Microwave, APNs, LTE, Femto, WiMAX, ADSL, Satellite, bundled SME offerings as well as Customer specific solutions. •Define and implement product roadmap and marketing strategy for Fixed line and Wireless Access services in alignment with Vodacom Business overarching business strategy and competitor activities. •Network Capacity and device inventory and budgetary planning, identification of new areas for network roll out using inputs from sales forecasts, fibre providers and Vodacom transmission engineering •Business plan development (Costing and pricing) in line with target profitability and competitor benchmarking to ensure sales and revenue targets for Access / FTTX product sets are achieved. (targets met in year 1 and exceeded in year 2) •Presentations and / or negotiation at strategic customer interactions, events and bids. •Determine and enforce delivery SLAs with internal and external providers with reference to link installation time lines, feasibility / site surveys, site readiness requirements etc •Performance monitoring and executive reporting with reference to product quality and customer experience. •Program management of end to end commercial access product processes including pre-sales assessments, non standardised requests, order processing, link deployment, migrations, outdoor transfers and cancellations. •QoS requirements in terms of traffic management on layer 2 products and support of layer 3 products (honoring of CIR end to end). •Training (for solutions architects and sales teams), marketing communications, maintenance of portal based product information and product launches

VodacomPrincipal specialist Access Services

Oct. 2007 - Oct. 2008•Establish division responsible for product development, product integration and go-to-market strategy for Vodacom Business Access Services. •Development and implementation of Access and vertical industries applications and solutions product sets, •Sales support documentation, costing and pricing models. •Product definitions, market needs analysis, business case feasibility and product fit. •Product plans, announcements, launches and withdrawals and management of commercialising new and enhanced products •Establish marketing and sales goals to ensure access products achieve agreed share of market. •Responsible for profitability, gross margin and revenue targets for Access and vertical industry product sets. •Development of go-to-market plans for access services and industry solutions including pre-sales and •post sales support, processes and documentation. •Develop and maintain tender and bid management documentation for all Access services and solutions •Manage a team of product managers and specialists. •Keep abreast of all regulatory, technology and market requirements in the mobile and Telco services environment. •Compile and maintain a monthly up to date budget, sales and revenue report. •Manage vendor and supplier relationships