Curriculum Vitae CHRIS VERMEULEN English, Afrikaans South African 20 November 1973 beyondfriday@gmail.com +27 84 8000 800 Creativity meets business. Driven professional with a thorough understanding of corporate infrastructure. Excelled in both creative leadership and business operations, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Up to date with current media trends, focusing strongly on digital media, content development and advertising. A communicator and networker at heart. Experience Prezence, Cape Town COO January – Present Spectrum Flying Circus a division of Primedia Digital, Johannesburg EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR October 2012 – December 2013 (1 year 3 months) Formed part of the Executive Committee at the Flying Circus, a division of Primedia Digital. Lead the creative strategy and operations for the company. Reported to the CEO and attended quarterly board meetings. Maintained the quality of production and oversaw creative output. Lovefriday Media, Cape Town CREATIVE DIRECTOR June 2008 – September 2012 (4 years) Produced media projects and development for digital media platforms and television production. Managed creative and production teams. Created budgets for all campaigns and productions. A key focus on new business/project development of digital content. Tokyo Design Agency, Cape Town MANAGING & CREATIVE DIRECTOR November 2001 – February 2008 (6 years 4 months) Managed the company and supervised all creative processes. Lead all creative teams, developed new campaigns and directed design and animation processes. Coordinated with clients in order to maintain healthy working relationships and client satisfaction. Octagon Marketing, Cape Town FREELANCE DESIGN DIRECTOR August 1999 – October 2001 (2 years 3 months) Creative Director in the post-production and television department. Worked with advertising agencies and production companies to conceptualise new brand identities. Sky Digital, London CREATIVE LEAD December 1997 – June 1999 (1 year 7 months) Led the web design team. Conceptualised design for interactive television platforms. Managed digital creative processes, lead creative campaigns and created weekly design briefs for the web design team. ITV New Media, London SENIOR DESIGNER September 1997 – November 1997 (3 months) Senior interactive designer on new media design projects. Specialised in design for online campaigns. Worked with a team of designers on several interactive projects on a contract period. Aquent, London FREELANCE ART DIRECTOR March 1997 – August 1997 (6 months) Project and short-term contract based work. Worked on multiple platforms and media. Worked on branding and design projects.

First Choice Ski, Austria SKI REP Nov 1996 – March 1997 (5 months) A representative and ski guide for a gap season in the Austrian Alps. Lead and coordinated weekly tourist groups and holiday-makers. Maintained a high level of communication and people skills to deal with various challenges that arose over the winter season. Tinderbox, Cape Town DESIGNER March 1996 – September 1996 (7 months) Designer on various projects. Focused on design and layout for online campaigns. Worked in a creative team to generate high quality work within tight deadlines. Hirt & Carter, Cape Town DESIGN LECTURER June 1995 – December 1995 (7 months) Teaching design-basics and creative software. Ran design workshops, group presentations and design software demos, teaching compositing, photo manipulation and animation. Education HIRT & CARTER Certificate in Broadcast Television, Post-Production, Visual Communication & Digital Design 1994 - 1995 CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY / CAPE TECHNIKON Graphic Design Diploma 1992 – 1994 COLLEGE OF CAPE TOWN Communications & Design Diploma 1991 – 1992 Accolades STER-KINEKOR 3D CINEMA ANIMATION Creative Director on the cinema animation for Ster-Kinekor JUPITER DRAWING ROOM Creative concept and production of two Design Indaba Commercials 2010 (Earned a Silver Loerie as part of the mixed media entry) CONDOR POST PRODUCTION Creative collaboration for a period of one year, in which time more than six visual effects projects were produced OCTAGON TELEVISION & MARKETING Creative Director on more than twenty television productions creating branded imaging OKUHLE MEDIA Creative Director and Producer for a number of television brand identities, some of which received SAFTA awards LIQUORICE ADVERTISING Produced a viral campaign for Liqui-Fruit that spread country wide and reached the news for its impact LEFTFIELD ADVERTISING Peak Super Eagles Commercial produced for the World Cup 2010 period HOMEBREW FILMS Created branded imaging for over twelve productions aired on South African channels MARK SHUTTLEWORTH’S HIP2B2 Brand Identity and Brand Bible created for overall brand, to be rendered for television, online and print publications E-TV CHANNEL Complete brand identity created and produced for the E-TV channel, across all media platforms