Sabbex appoints Jason Bell as Project Manager

The South African Boatbuilders Export Council (SABBEX) has recently announced the appointment of Jason Bell as new Project Manager for the group.

He takes over from Veda Raubenheimer who stepped down as CEO to focus attention on her work for CTBi and the soon-to-be-established National Boating Association. She had been with the Export Council for four years.

According to the SABBEX website Jason brings with him 15 years of international trade and marketing experience, having spent 8 years with the US Trade and Development agency and having handled various African infrastructure projects and the marketing of US goods and services in sub-Saharan Africa.

He will direct all SABBEX’s international affairs and trade promotion programmes.

SABBEX is a a major contributor to establishing South Africa as a globally competitive boatbuilding export country. The group contains a number of South African multihull builders as members.