Why choose Giraffe Creatives?

Founder & CEO

Fadi Hus

Founder, co-owner, creative director and big time foodie, Fadi is the brains behind Giraffe Creatives, transforming the way we market our clients and transforming the marketing industry. With 10 years of experience and coming from a background in design, he’s always on the hunt for new techniques. He’s the team leader that keeps pushing for the best results for our clients.

CFO

Wassim Kodsi

CFO. A man of few words…this few.

General Manager

Kimberly Jacobs

Kimberley began at Giraffe as the head of Admin and Accounts and has worked her way up the ladder to becoming the General Manager. Even with her hands full of work her friendly and chatty personality always brings a lively atmosphere to the office and her wacky jokes never fail to make everyone laugh.

Traffic and Clients Relation Manager

Katarina Mwale

Katarina is the client relations and traffic manager at Giraffe, organizing all client projects, and assigning them to the right team members for the job. As someone who loves order, she takes pleasure in making sure things run smoothly both in and out of the office. Apart from being an avid art lover, Katarina enjoys her spare time baking or taking long relaxing walks outdoors.

Senior Account Manager

Arthur Kaoma

Arthur is a genuine lover of advertising. Even when asked to write his own bio he could not think about anything else but advertising.
With multi-market communication strategy experience, at Giraffe he applies his love for the industry through his excellent client service skills, exceptional strategic prowess, and his meticulous project management abilities.

Senior Account Manager

Barbara Silungwe

Barbara only comes in to the office to get compliments about her shoes. A fashionista at heart, Barbara comes with over 20 years of experience in Advertising and PR, a wacky sense of humour and a degree in theology! Fun fact about Barbara: she sings and dances when she’s stressed.

Account Manager

Taonga Kaonga

Taonga is more than an account manager. With a qualification in Communications -now- turned -marketer, she is responsible for implementing marketing strategies that help her clients increase brand awareness, generate leads, and acquire new customers, basically solving problems. She finds new ways of creating amazing content that is useful and effective to grow her clients’ online brand.

When she isn’t working, she’s writing about Fashion, playing roles that contribute to the Fashion Industry and probably eating out.

Account Manager

Kaanga Hanaite

Starting with Giraffe as a responder, sneaker-head Kaanga is now one of our account managers, contributing to enhancing brand awareness within the digital space as well as implementing and managing online marketing campaigns for his clients. He ensures companies are “seen” to grow sales. With his curious mind, he is obsessed with finding creative ways to grow brands.

Account Manager

Nswana Mukwemba

A creative at heart, Nswana decided to hang up her pencil skirts and leave her sensible job in the corporate world to follow her passions. When she’s not helping brands bring their visions to life, she can be found working on original screenplays, trying out new recipes in the kitchen, or attempting to compose herself after discovering that her beloved fur babies have destroyed yet another pair of shoes.

Account Manager

Tina Elizabeth Patounas

Tina is a communications major who is passionate about the English language. Her first introduction to it was her father’s encyclopedic dictionary. While her siblings played in trees, she flipped pages and found a love for words, a passion she now applies to her job as an Account Manager. When she’s not busy writing up a storm for her clients, she can be found raising her pets at home (but she is terrified of frogs!).

Senior Account Manager

Mwanza Mpepo

Senior account manager Mwanza is an artist dedicated to her craft. She has been a force in creating, cultivating and growing many brands from her first dip in the pool of marketing and advertising at only 19 years old.

At heart, Mwanza is a strategist and problem solver. Customer satisfaction is her main priority and making sure her clients’ needs are met drives her. Fun fact, she works better on her feet, literally, her bare feet.

When she isn’t at work, you can find her singing or creating edible masterpieces in her kitchen.

Account Manager

Megan Skinner

Like many at Giraffe, Megan is a big foodie making her fit in very well with the team! Qualified in both Psychology and Marketing & Advertising she brings her extensive knowledge to Giraffe, putting her in the best position to bring our clients’ brands to life. Megan is a proud feminist, a people person and a huge fan of Friends (the TV show). In another life, she says she’d love to be an Olympic gymnast.

Production Manager

Raisa Ismail

Over excited animal lover, Raisa heads the production department at Giraffe Creatives, bringing her enthusiasm and positivity to every project that comes her way. With a journalism degree under her belt, she’s the company copywriter and enjoys whipping up scripts to make clients stand out. P.S she’s also the smallest person in the office.

Casting Manager

Sombo Kapole

Full of energy 24/7, Sombo is our casting manager, on the hunt for only the best talent for our productions. She worked with Giraffe on numerous projects in the past before finally joining the team permanently. She brings a smile to everyone’s faces in the office and on set with her jokes, fun personality and infectious laugh. P.S Emilios are her weakness.

Studio & Equipment Manager

Eric Simwamba

Electrician by profession, Eric is a jack-of-all-trades, solving all problems with it comes to production equipment and electrics. With us from the birth of Giraffe, Eric is our studio and equipment manager making sure no light or camera is amiss when it’s time to shoot.

Production Assistant

Chonzi Mulenga

Chonzi is a proactive and dynamic woman who helps the production team run everything smoothly. Her calm personality and positive attitude always puts the team at ease. Aside from her work at Giraffe Chonzi is also a dedicated volunteer who gives up her time to support and initiate donation programs around Lusaka which has earned her a Humanitarian and Voluntary Leadership award from the National Youth Development Council of Zambia. A future leader!

Head of Design

Kieran Innes

Kieran joined as a Senior Designer under the impression that eventually there’d be free pizza. Now as Head of Design, Kieran’s the one buying the pizza! With 7 years of experience in Graphic Design and Print, Kieran is a designer who has a passion for all things graphic. With an active spirit and always looking to make someone laugh and smile you can always expect a bit of humour to brighten up your work perspective.

Graphic Designer

Raymond Chanda

Raymond is kind of like a ray of sunshine, but don’t worry about wearing sunscreen, it’s just a metaphor. He’s a self-motivated creative with excellent skills in graphic design and over five years of experience. To continually evolve as a creative Raymond is always up for a challenge and open to new ideas.

Videographer | Editor

Eugene Kasalwe

As our resident videographer, Eugene is probably the quietest person in the office. Hiding away behind his computer screen he has a knack for putting great visuals together to produce enticing videos and when he isn’t filming or editing something for our clients Eugene can be found drooling over classic cars. He’s also Sombo’s uncle.

Graphic & Motion Graphics Designer

Chibinda Chipawa

Silent in deep thought or deep in meaningful conversation, there is no in-between when it comes to Chibi. Creative projects excite him and being motivated and driven by constant challenges, Chibi relishes the opportunity to meet and exceed expectations. As far as motion graphics go, if you need it done quick, done well and done right, he’s your guy.

Graphic Designer

Abel Luninga

Abel began his career in graphic design by chance. He first took an interest in media with photography and while saving up for a camera he decided to explore the world of Photoshop. Since then, he’s never looked back, developing a keen mind for designing eye-catching artwork for his clients. His love for solving creative problems through designs can only be matched by his love of music and when he’s not attending to client briefs, he’s out working with local musicians to market their music to the world. #themusicsuperhero.

Graphic Designer

Dickens Sikazwe

Dickens likes to describe himself as a minimalist designer. Starting his design career 7 years ago, he takes a keen interest in developing visual identities no matter what client comes his way. Outside of his work he enjoys spending time with family, watching TV shows, content creation, and writing.

Web Developer

J.J. Sakala

Web developer, JJ comes with 12 years of experience in the marketing industry, specializing in producing compelling and user-friendly websites for our clients. He’s a stickler for detail and won’t take any shortcuts. Fun fact: he only functions with music and a coffee in his hand.