AVUSA MEDIA
Publishers in Sandton

Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Times Media Group is a media company that informs, educates, entertains and connects people. We aim to provide compelling content and creative solutions to enrich lives, helping people to know more, do more and to live inspired. We focus on building internal and external partnerships, investing in quality content delivered via physical and digital channels to best serve our customers’ needs. In a continent where economic progress and social reform are critical goals, we believe that concentrating on our core drivers will ensure appropriate investments to best achieve our vision. Times Media plays an important role in the communities we serve, in people’s lives. Looking beyond our strategies, our operational structure and excellence, we bring to life incisive newspaper articles and stories, gripping hard-to-put-down novels, mind-twisting movies, tools with which lives are made easier, giving direction, information and knowledge that makes business decisions easier, creating learning partnerships that bring future possibilities closer, giving a hand where it is most needed, debates that span across and have an impact on society. In a continent where economic progress and social reforms are critical goals, TMG enriches lives, by offering solutions for knowledge, information, leisure and business. That is the essence of what makes TMG the company that it is. Harish is a non-executive director of Spar, Redefine Income Fund, Wasteman and Cibapac. He is executive chairman of Clearwater Capital, a family fund, and a member of the KZN Provincial board of First National Bank. Andrew previously worked at Brait where he held positions in investment banking, principal investment divisions and corporate finance. He serves on the boards of several listed and unlisted companies. Prior to that, he was chief executive officer of MultiChoice Africa, a Naspers subsidiary, where he launched DStv across South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. He spent five years in Hong Kong as chief executive officer of MIH, also a Naspers subsidiary, where he concluded numerous pay-TV and internet deals, notably Tencent. He has over 10 years’ experience in corporate finance and public and private investing in South Africa. Will joined Blackstar in 2005 at its inception, and has served on the boards of several listed and unlisted companies. Prior to that, he spent three years as an account director at Young & Rubicam where he managed a number of multinational accounts. Among other accomplishments, he is well known for establishing the International Design Indaba, which is recognised as one of the world’s leading design institutions. Ravi also sits on the jury of the Index Awards in Copenhagen, the world’s richest design prize.