About
Vanessa is a senior television and advertising producer with over 20 years’ experience in the South African creative industry. She has worked across leading agencies including Jupiter Drawing Room, TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, Y&R, and FCB Africa, producing award-winning work for major local and global brands such as Coca-Cola, Tiger Brands, Old Mutual, Wimpy, Debonairs Pizza, SARS, and Bonitas. As Executive Producer at Fuelcontent, she established and led FCB’s in-house production facility, overseeing high-end film, animation, post-production, budgets, and teams, with her work earning international recognition including a Gold Cannes Lions award.
She later founded and ran a business representing freelance TV commercial directors, worked client-side in Advertising Cost Consultancy, and relocated to Mauritius to pursue studies in wellness and life coaching. Vanessa now works with Lunchbox in a project management capacity, bringing strategic, operational, and people-centred expertise to the team.
