Nicola Tilley

Nikki has over 25 years’ experience in the public relations, content creation, communications, media, film and television plus radio industries as well as being highly focused on the tourism sector for the past ten years.  

She has held management and leadership positions as well as being a core-founder of one of South Africa’s top, multi-award winning, non-profit film Audio Visual Schools – Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking (NGO) where she ran the operations, fundraising and marketing for over 4 years from inception.

Subsequently Nikki has been a Marketing, PR, Communications and Project Manager consultant to various businesses and tourism organization’s over the past 10 years before moving to Somerset West, Cape Town in October 2017, where she has continued with her writing, editing and PR.

Since leaving the Midlands Meander Association (NGO) as Marketing & PR Manager in 2010, Nikki set up an umbrella sole proprietor business, The Media Mogul Co. contracting and outsourcing work as required to various specialists in their fields. She has worked with the below-mentioned clients, with a primary focus on getting their media, marketing, events, PR, communications and business strategies in place.

In December 2012, she won the tender for the Maloti Drakensberg Route (NGO) as Media & PR Practitioner which included marketing of the Eastern Cape, Eastern Free State, the uKhahlamba Drakensberg and Lesotho. This entailed a considerable amount of writing and travelling. Between January and October 2013, she was consulting back to the Film School on a strategic, production and management level, in addition to servicing her existing clients.  

Between 2013 and 2016, Nikki was appointed the first of 3 successful annual tenders as Marketing, PR and Events Specialist for Ugu South Coast Tourism in KZN and received 3 x clean audits as a result.

Thereafter she moved to Gauteng and successfully owned and managed The Marriage Meander Company Gauteng (primarily an online and social media marketing platform) in 2017 until selling it due to her relocation (and marriage) to Cape Town.