I built Gatehouse from the ground up alongside my husband Joel, and it’s now one of South Africa’s most trusted names in international production servicing. Joel and I have two exceptional children — Leah (18) and Rafi (15). In the film industry, even though it’s pervasively male-dominated, we are fortunate that women have long shone and had clear paths within it.

My role in leadership is to make sure women are given a foot in the door, just like I got, and that they are championed and mentored up. Through the years, my work on the Commercial Producers Association exco has focused on industry sustainability and governance — I’m particularly proud of what we achieved during Covid, protecting our crew and getting them back to work.

As EO’s Membership Chair, we grew our chapter to mega status and grew the women’s component exponentially. I currently serve as Women’s Champion for EO Cape Town — actively working to connect, elevate, and advocate for women across the business community, and making sure women’s voices are heard.

It’s the sum of the parts , not one achievement, but every way I show up as a woman in business who brings other women along with her.

My vision is simple: keep making sure women take their rightful place in the business world not as an afterthought, but as leaders in their own right.

For Gatehouse, that means building succession into the future, and the future is most certainly female. For South Africa, my vision is an industry and an economy that keeps proving what a small, deeply rooted business can achieve on the world stage: creating jobs, upskilling talent, and making sure everyone has a seat at the table, regardless of where they start.

I find these questions really hard, because for me leadership is mostly about the small ways I try to inspire, teach, and lead. It’s watching a coordinator watch me deal with a problem, knowing they’re learning from how I handle it and carrying the responsibility to act with grace and clarity, every time, because someone is always watching. If I have to point to one big, hairy achievement, it goes back to the early days of Covid being part of a group to create protocols for our industry to keep our crew safe and working, and pushing to get the film industry open under Level 2 so we could get back to work. I knew my own business wouldn’t recover for a while yet, but it was imperative that our crews got back to work.