MEET THE DIRECTOR: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

RAYNER CANNING

Rayner Canning leads the Business Development Unit with a focus on recruiting and retaining key Executive Education and Study Tour clients, fostering new initiatives, and stewarding UCT GSB’s market share and revenue. In addition, Rayner carries responsibility for Executive Education, Business Development, Marketing, and the GSB’s satellite campus in Sandton.

Rayner has over 10 years of business school experience and some notably achievements include the development of and opening of both the GSB’s Sandton campus facility in 2017 and the Academic Conference Centre at the Waterfront Campus in 2018. He currently serves on the EQUIS Executive Development Conference Committee (since 2018), UNICON’s Digital Disruptor Working Group, Accelerate Cape Town’s Council Committee and is the University’s shareholder representative for Cape BioPharms. 

Canning previously served as UCT GSB's Finance Director and also worked at UCT’s International Office. In both positions he exercised joint accountability for a full range of financial and business functionality.
Canning holds a Masters of Commerce (MCOM), a PGDip in Tax Law, and a BCOM (Accounting) from UCT. 

MEET THE DEPARTMENTAL MANAGER

JODIE MARTIN

Jodie Martin is the Executive Education Departmental Manager where he leads and supports our world-class Executive Education delivery team. Jodie’s dedication to delivering customer service excellence requires him to motivate and mentor teams to strive for continuous improvement. As a veteran with close to 10 years Executive Education experience, Jodie now guides and leads to ensure efficiencies in marketing, academic quality and a high level of programme delivery excellence for executive short and customised courses, study tours and customized academic programmes. His personal motto is to remain inclusive of all ideas, encouraging of curiosity and innovation while instilling confidence in the people around him.