College Hill South Africa
College Hill South Africa was established in the late 1990s to service a growing need for financial public relations support around large cross-border transactions.
Today, College Hill South Africa is a top-ranked business communications consultancy with an impressive list of over 30 retained clients in both the private and public space. Our clients fall across a broad range of sectors including mining, infrastructure, food, ICT and financial services amongst others.
We believe in forging strong partnerships with our clients, the investment community and the media in order to deliver effective communications programmes that enhance and protect corporate reputations.
Drawing on our team’s varied and unparalleled expertise, College Hill South Africa provides value to our clients through strategic insight, creative solutions and tried-and-tested delivery systems.
Our mission remains to build an unsurpassed international business communications consultancy, providing high-end consultation in or near the boardroom.
Our expertise
College Hill South Africa believes in the power of strategic and effective communication as an invaluable business tool to achieve tangible results that make a difference to our clients’ business.
We offer a range of complementary services:
- Corporate reputation management
- Business communications
- Investor relations
- Crisis communications
- Employee engagement
- Strategic research
Our Team
Nicholas Williams
Managing Partner of College Hill South Africa, Nicholas has over twelve years’ worth of financial and business communications experience. He has advised numerous companies in Africa and Europe across various high level transactions including IPOs, M & As and fundraisings. Prior to joining College Hill, Nicholas worked for Barclays Bank, specialising in strategic business planning, private, corporate and international banking.
Jacques de Bie
A financial marketing professional, Jacques is a partner in the South African office. He has over 17 years experience in the industry and has held various positions including Marketing Director for Standard & Poor's structured finance credit ratings in Europe prior to joining College Hill South Africa. Jacques completed an MBA focused on Investor Relations and has substantial expertise in web-based quantitative and qualitative research, advertising and PR evaluation.
Frederic Cornet
Partner with over nine years’ experience in the media relations and financial communications fields advising both private and public companies and other institutions on a range of financial and business communications issues, including pan-African work for multinationals.
Morne Reinders
An Account Director with thirteen year's experience in investor and public relations on both the consulting and corporate side, most of which in the financial services field. He has gathered excellent knowledge across the entire corporate affairs spectrum including IPOs, dual listings, crisis communications and work for pan-African nationals.
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Contact us
Fountain Grove
5 2nd Road
Hyde Park
Sandton
2196
Johannesburg
South Africa
T +27 11 447 3030
F +27 11 447 6910
marie.vorster@collegehill.co.za
Career opportunities
At College Hill South Africa, we are always on the lookout for talented, experienced and passionate communications professionals to join our team. We believe that our strength lies in the diverse and varied experience of our staff and we offer extraordinary career opportunities to the right people.
If you believe you have what it takes to work for one of the leading business communications consultancies in South Africa, send your CV and a covering letter to careers@collegehill.co.za.