Piwe is a passionate sales and marketing professional with extensive experience gained from a number of industries including, but not limited to, music, broadcasting, media and advertising.
He current role at DStv Media Sales is Head of General Entertainment (GE), heading up a team of TV Sponsorships Sales & Channel Management specialists. Her role sits on both the DStv Media Sales as well as the M-Net Management Boards. She is also form part of the Multichoice Content Leadership Forum.
Her career in Media started in 2001, working as traffic co-ordinator for booked advertising at SABC’s Action Stations. Within 5 years she held she had grown to the role of Sales Manager for SABC’s commercial TV channel (SABC3), with a revenue mandate just under R1bn.
She also managed the Directorate for Marketing, Advertising and Media Buying for Government Communications; a portfolio worth over R1.5 billion of media buying business, which included the management of a panel of creative agencies and other suppliers (mostly media owners).
Over the years, she acquired an extensive network across key industry sectors locally and abroad, including key advertisers (financial services, FMCG, Telco’s, Government, alcohol – to name just a few), content producers (such as Fremantle, HBO, Endemol Shine amongst others) as well broadcasters (including, but not limited to BBC Networks, NBC Universal, A+E Networks and Disney).