About Ian Rheeder

From humble beginnings, Ian has clawed himself to the top of his industry. In 2003 he qualified as a Chartered Marketer (CM), the highest professional marketing qualification recognised both in South Africa and Europe. Ian is also a registered training Assessor with Services SETA South Africa, who is registered to facilitate almost all their Marketing & Sales programmes. He has facilitated marketing and sales management programmes at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) since 2007, and is currently part of the official GIBS adjunct faculty.

SETA Services

Loaded with intellectual capital, Markitects Consulting is led by Ian, who is an atypical marketer, coach and former marketing and sales director of YKK, the global fastening giant.  With practical big-brand expertise in both the marketing and sales functions, whilst drawing on his engineering and artistic background, he has a multi-disciplined business-to-business (B2B) and fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) approach to consulting and training.

Why use Markitects?

By bridging the gap between creativity and strategy, Markitects has a flair for envisioning on behalf of their customers, even when they can’t articulate what they want. Markitects is results driven, flexible, accessible, responsive and a value-for-money option.

 

Besides working with top brands, Ian facilitates over 30 self-authored programmes at leading business schools. He describes himself as a ‘markoholic’ and one of SA’s most passionate marketing speakers. (Ian has hundreds of brilliant references to back this up.) In October 2009 he was voted the best speaker at an international marketing conference and in 2010 was nominated the Johannesburg Chapter President of the Professional Speakers Association (PSASA).
 

Ian’s competitive advantage is his depth of experience in both the marketing and sales functions. He considers it a privilege to do exactly what he wants to do, which is share this knowledge and experience. Having consulted on and researched 30 international brands whilst at Markitects and Group Africa (now EXP Agency), he gained his broad FMCG & B2B experience. Ian has 11-years senior Marketing & Sales Management experience, and 8-years consulting & facilitation experience with major blue-chip companies, and has done international work for The Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) South Africa.
 

Ian will inspire and inform thus increase your sales, development, and productivity. He is available as a professional speaker for your conference, seminar, marketing session or sales meeting. His talks are interactive, from true marketing experience, and unaided by notes. There's little "fluff & stuff" in the content - just hard-hitting solutions.

Favourite thinkers: Carl G Jung, William James, Daniel Kahneman, Peter Drucker and Michael E Porter

 

Favourite Quotes:

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." Alan K Simpson 

“A Marketers’ task is to self-destruct by making themselves unnecessary, because they have succeeded in making the whole organisation market-oriented.” Tom Bowman

“You already are, and will become what you think, feel and do. With the emphasis on feel and do.” Ian Rheeder

Besides marketing, oil painting, fly fishing and travel, his other passion is doing ultra marathons, and has done the Comrades (90km), 2 Iron Man Marathons, 4 Dusi Marathons and 13 Fish River Canoe Marathons. 

Palette knife paintings by Ian Rheeder.

A Study of Duck

(Oil on canvas, 1.5m x 1m)

Poppies in Western Cape

(Oil on canvas, 1.5m x 1m)

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