Dave Duarte is an internet and mobile marketing educator and entrepreneur.
He is MD of Huddlemind, an education and research organisation that provides blended learning solutions to numerous multinational corporations.
Dave is also founder and director of two Executive Education programmes at UCT Graduate School of Business: Nomadic Marketing and Mobile Marketing.
He lectures on the Executive MBA programme at UCT GSB, as well as on an undergraduate management studies programme at UCT.
Dave’s non-profit appointments include:
* Dean of the Digital Media Faculty at The Maharishi Institute of Management (a free university founded by Taddy Blecher, and endorsed by international icons such as Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama)
* He is Public Lead for Creative Commons (CC) South Africa (CC is a non-profit that offers a set of free customizable digital licenses that have been applied more than 200 million times globally)
His other projects include:
* Co-founder of the 27dinner (a free monthly event that runs nationally on the 27th of every month)
* Co-owner of Muti.co.za (Africa’s most popular online social bookmarking application)
Dave won the “Best Business Blog†category at the 2009 SA Blog Awards.
He is rated as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Media and Advertising people in South Africa by Jeremy Maggs in “The Annual“.