Biz Community South Africa
15 November 2017
Cape Town businesswomen and entrepreneur, Lesley Waterkeyn is one of five South African entrepreneurs who received an award from the International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge (IWEC) Foundation at a special ceremony in Seattle, last night.
Waterkeyn, founder and CEO of Colourworks, a strategic brand experience agency, specialising in marketing and events says the award is both an “honour and a privilege.” The IWEC is a New York-based non-profit organisation whose mission is to connect and develop a global network of successful women entrepreneurs. Waterkeyn, along with fellow South African recipients; Vino Govender, of LA Consulting Engineers; Tara and Tiffany Turkington, of Flow Communications; Savanah Maziya Danson, of the Bunengi Group and Jill Bysshe, of Natural Ethical Trading t/a Neo Trading, were all nominated by the Cape Chamber of Commerce for this award. Each candidate run multi-million-rand businesses and produce an annual turnover of nearly half a billion rand.
“I feel incredibly honoured and humbled to be recognised by the prestigious IWEC. This award speaks to years of hard work and is testament that as a nation, we have a long line of diligent and committed women doing great things for our country. I congratulate the other recipients. I know for a fact they are as thrilled as I am,” she says.
In 1998, Waterkeyn transformed Colourworks from a small print agency into a full-scale, integrated marketing business. Today, the business produces an annual turnover of R50m, which she describes as “wonderful milestone.”
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