Jaun Pienaar

Jaun launched ApexMedia in 2010 after receiving a Diploma of Music in Contemporary Music and Sound Engineering from The Campus of Performing Arts in
association with The Academy of Contemporary Music in London where he was awarded student of the year for two consecutive years.

His focus is on developing local and African markets for the organization’s growth areas, including Design, Development, Video and Audio capacities to delivera full-service creative offering to local agencies, exclusive clients and partners across Africa.

Having grown the business steadily for five years he merged the business with Omnicom PR giant, FleishmanHillard SA in November 2014, joining the team as Creative Lead to help with the founding of ContentWorks and the associated production facility in Johannesburg.

After 14 months he withdrew from the merger where he continued to grow and strengthen ApexMedia with new business Partner Damon Boyd, a media veteran and expert story-teller. Together they founded AIPX, a group of digital companies and products.

He has worked alongside some of the continent’s most renowned companies, developing several award-winning strategies and campaigns across a multitude of sectors for the likes of Microsoft, Bidvest, Philips, Intel, Monsanto, Nike, Barclays Africa/Absa, POWER FM, Vumacam and Sureswipe among others.

Jaun started TomorrowEntrepreneur in 2013 with the hopes of transforming grass roots entrepreneurship by educating and connecting aspiring or forced entrepreneurs with mentors from some of Africa’s largest businesses and NPOs.

He was recognized in 2018 by Forbes as a Forbes Africa 30 Under 30.