SYLVESTER
CHAUKE

CNBC Africa Young Business Leader of the Year 2017, Sylvester Chauke is a self-confessed Madonna crazy, multi-ward winning Entrepreneur and founder of Adweek’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Agency in the world 2020, DNA Brand Architects.

After a lustrous career as the National Marketing Manager for Nando’s South Africa, Sylvester joined broadcasting giant MTV Networks Africa as its Director of Marketing and Communication before establishing DNA Brand Architects; working with some of the most revered global brands on the African continent.

Besides running an innovative brand agency in South Africa, Sylvester Chauke is one of the 22 young leaders from around the world to sit as the Advisory Council for the World Economic Forum Global Shapers and selected to the Harambe Entrepreneurs Alliance in 2018.

A passionate advocate for creativity, Sylvester sits amongst others, on the board of the South African State Theatre; Chair of the Institutional Development Committee and is also in the Advisory Board for the University of Johannesburg and Facebook Africa.

Some of Sylvester’s accolades include; Top 100 Influential Africans, BBQ Young Leader of the Year, European Business Assembly, Best Enterprise and CEO Award, Oliver Empowerment Top Empowered Young Entrepreneur, World Confederation of Businesses Leader Award, Falcon Award for Excellence in leadership, Golden European Award for Quality and Commercial Prestige – to name a few.

The ethos that stimulates Sylvester Chauke, is the hunger for Africans to inspires billions and changes the game. Sylvester believes that African businesses need to inject its magic to the rest of the world and that African Excellence is not a theoretical ideal, but it is alive and active.