Martin Chauke is a marketing, advertising and communications professional with a strong general management record with acclaimed blue chip management training and development from Unilever, Gillette South Africa and Sappi Limited.

Martin has a Bachelor of Arts (Politics) from University of the North and received his post graduate education from Wits Business School in Management (Management Advancement Program) and Marketing (Certificate Program in Marketing Management).

In the year that Martin was appointed MD at Graphicor, South Africa’s top investor communications and design agency, it was awarded top honours at Financial Mail’s Adfocus Awards as the “Design Agency of the Year."
He also delivered the “Biggest Profit Growth” in the company’s 27 year old history the same year and was awarded Adcorp’s “Chairman’s Award” from Adcorp Holdings, Graphicor’s parent company for excellent performance, especially Cash Management and New Business Development.

Martin was awarded a Rotary Group Study Exchange program to the United States in 1997 where his career shift to branding and marketing management was launched.

His career includes contract appointments whilst managing his own private company Investus IP, an independent professional and outsourced interim management service company. Contracted appointments included

• Top design agency Enterprise IG (Client Director),
• Bus and vehicle branding agency, SPMedia (Acting MD) ,
• Uthingo, South Africa’s first lottery management company (Communications Consultant),
• Client/Agency marketing consultancy firm, Yardstick as a Shareholder, Consultant Business development professional and Ogilvy Jhb as MD of the Agencies no. 1 account, South African Tourism.

Martin Chauke has sat on several Boards including: Grapihcor, Adcorp Communications Solutions, Yardstick, Oval Office/ United Media Entertainment Group JV (FIFA projects), Tshirundu Investment Holdings, Black Management Forum, Vista University and Emmanuels Personnel.

Martin is a trusted advisor, team player with strong strategic, problem solving and analytical skills and abilities. His entrepreneurial spirit has driven and inspired a ‘partnership made in heaven’ with Yvonne Johnston, Marketer-at-Large, and Brand South Africa’s first CEO. Their partnership in this new consultancy will focus on two areas: