Brett Levy, Joint-CEO of Blue Label Telecoms - Talks tips for The Sun International CEO SleepOut™
'Lead and others will follow' is clearly the ethos that drives Brett Levy as Joint-CEO of Blue Label Telecoms: the biggest contributor to The Sun International CEO SleepOut™ in 2015 with an amount of R540 000 out of the total R26 million. Learn about Brett's tips for going big in 2016!
We call it the 'lead and others will follow' ethos.
Brett Levy as Joint-CEO of Blue Label Telecoms (BLT) on the other hand prefers the word 'gees' - the Afrikaans word for 'spirit' - to describe how he and his company ended up being the biggest contributors at The Sun International CEO SleepOut™ in 2015: "I absolutely loved the experience, the ‘gees’ as I call it - I’ve seen all of these CEOs on the street. I really found it fascinating, it was a very proudly South African moment for me."
What are Brett's tips for going BIG in 2016? What should first-timers at The Sun International CEO SleepOut™ bring along?: “I think a lot of whisky! *laughs* No, I don’t believe you can pack anything, actually. What we did is we built a nice fire, we got comfortable and we actually stayed up the whole night just talking general nonsense to each other which was fun. I think you come dressed warmly and expect anything, expect a little bit of South African ‘gees’ (spirit) and camaraderie and you take it from there!”
Brett has an impressive entrepreneurial history having founded and operated many small businesses in the early 1990s. He has been involved across a wide range of industries, including the distribution of fast-moving consumer goods and insurance replacements for electronic goods. Brett’s business achievements have earned him a number of prestigious nominations, accolades and awards. These include the ABSA Bank Jewish Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2003) and the ABSA Jewish Business Achiever Non-Listed Company Award (2007), which he won jointly with his brother Mark. Brett was nominated as an Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur SA Finalist for 2007. In 2010 he received the Liberty Life Award for a Remarkable Success Story in the David Awards and was a finalist in the Top Young Entrepreneur category of the African Access National Business Awards. In 2011 he shared with Mark the Top Entrepreneur accolade in the African Access National Business Awards.
Brett joined the BLT Board on its establishment in 2007 and is a director of various local and global Group companies.
Want to know who this impressive leader will be challenging to take part as part of #4Leaders4Change?: "Me and my brother are going to do it together like we did it last year and I would like to challenge Gavin Varejes from Rich Mark Holdings who avoided coming last year because I appointed him too late, but now he’s the first appointee, so I want to make sure he’s the first to arrive on the bridge.”