Riaan Wolmarans is the former head of digital for the media (news) division of Arena Holdings, South Africa’s second-largest digital news publisher, where he and his team managed a suite of news websites including TimesLIVE, is South Africa’s second-largest news website with up to 8-million readers per month.

Before joining Arena Holdings (then Times Media) in 2015, Riaan had previous stints in advertising, as head of digital content at the agency MetropolitanRepublic; as digital editor of Business Day, South Africa’s respected daily business newspaper; at the Financial Times in London, where he worked on FT.com and a range of commercial publishing projects; and as website editor at the Mail & Guardian in South Africa.