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 opporMore...