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.

Managing Director

Ethel Kandiwo

A self-confessed chocoholic and nature lover, Ethel is passionate about strategic communications and is equipped with 12 years’ experience in building and managing brands. Well-respected for her work ethic, Ethel has managed brands in Telecoms, Financial, Insurance, Mining, Automotive, Hospitality, FMCG, and Not for Profit sectors.

Always eager to roll up her sleeves, Ethel isn’t one to hide behind her job title and thoroughly enjoys getting involved in projects from inception to implementation.

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

Onechi Lwenje

A lover of film, Onechi is a storyteller at heart. He loves nothing more than to discover your brand’s story and help bring it to life. His extensive marketing and media experience poise him in the best position to do this on both a local and international level.

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.

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.

Administration and Accounts Executive

Kimberly Jacobs

Kimberly is the team’s account and admins manager, with a knack for bringing people together both in and out of the office. Her friendly and chatty personality always brings a lively atmosphere to the office despite her boring job of numbers. She’s been promising cakes in the office…we’re still waiting.

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.

Senior Designer

Kieran Innes

Senior Designer, Kieran joined in under the impression that eventually there’d be free pizza. With a background of 7 years of Graphic Design and in the Print industry, 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 humor 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 Sakalwe

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.

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.

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.