Navigating Business Opportunities In South Africa Virtual Networking Event: A partnership between IWFCI SA and the SA Chamber of Commerce Singapore
Thiru Naidoo, Senior Export Promotion Manager, Middle East and Asia offers an overview of Wesgrow and the Western Cape province’s trading profile.
Thiru has been with Wesgro since 2011 – in the Tourism Department for 9 years prior to being promoted to the Trade and Investment unit In her current role, she promotes and facilitates the exports of goods and services from qualified companies in the Western Cape into the Middle East and Asia region. She also facilitates and supports operations and expansion of qualified Western Cape companies into the rest of Africa through Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI).
She previously worked as the Business Development Manager (global) with the Business Tourism Unit at Wesgro. In this unit, she assisted in securing international business events (incentives and associations) and leisure tourism trade leads into the Western Cape. During this period, she was part of the national team that assisted in formulating South African Tourism’s-National Convention Bureau Strategy for Business Tourism in its conception years. In addition, she was awarded the Top 40 women in MICE Award-2018 (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions). She also sat on the committee of the South African Association for the Conference IndustryWesternCape Committee (SAACI), occupying the role of Treasurer. Prior to this she lectured at the College of Cape Town.