Group Founder & Chairman
Enoch M. Hwande
Enoch is the founder of multiple businesses in Africa and the United States where he presently resides. His business portfolio includes operations in brand building and brand protection & software engineering. He founded his first business, Dicomm in 1990. Dicomm is an abbreviation for Direct Communications and it is the first black owned Ad Agency in the history of Zimbabwe. In 1998 Enoch founded Dicomm Botswana and in 2000, Dicomm Grey South Africa, he then moved to the US in 2004.
To date, Dicomm McCann and TotalMedia UM are two leading advertising operations in Zimbabwe, offering their services across multiple African countries. In the US Enoch also founded an Intelligence-as-a-Service business AllVirtuous. Inc, a platform that collects brand protection data from more than 50 cities around the world. On the Adtech side, he founded Dynaton LLC, an AdExchange platform.
Enoch has in the past sat on Grey Worldwide Africa’s board from 2000-2005 where he had to oversee work for various clients with operations across Africa, Europe and Asia Pacific. His entrepreneurship has resulted in him being inducted into the prestigious 500 Start-up, a programme designed for start-ups by Silicon Valley (US) investors.