- Managing customer life cycles
- Communications unique to each customer
- We value simplicity
Existing and previous customer engagements are a company’s most valuable assets.

Financial Services Affinity Digital Marketing
Journey’s agile approach offers unprecedented flexibility in “light implementation” of new outbound digital communication strategies.
Journey’s Affinity Digital Marketing Services offer:
- Market expertise delivering insightful, innovative affinity marketing strategies
- Digital communication tools tailored to imminent needs in the customer “lifecycle”
- Real time Dashboards and Cubes measuring marketing efficacy of each unique intervention.
- Significant boosts on customer response rates

Customer Profiling and Analytics
Successful digital affinity strategies rely on understanding customer behavior using predictive and empirical profiling analysis.
Journey’s approach to affinity and lifecycle customer profiling is based on:
- Identifying previous customer sales engagement outcomes
- Simple digital marketing pilots to test responses to proposed affinity strategies
- Using the above tools to establish customers “imminent” needs

Call Centre and Lead Management Services
Journey’s call centre lead management software has been designed to complement our affinity digital marketing tools – facilitating seamless integration of prospects into our call center.
Our call centre software and sales services offer:
- End to end marketing and sales campaign management
- Real time sales engagement on response based “hot leads”
- Dashboard and cubes analyzing all campaign management aspects
WHO WE ARE
We are Journey

Gary De Souza
Chief Executive OfficerGary started his career in marketing and product development of Asset & Commercial Property Finance in Standard Bank and Nedbank. He moved to Citibank South Africa to develop and launch their Asset Finance division. He then joined the executive development team taking Citibank’s commercial banking division to market. Gary joined Rentworks in 2000 (now a First Rand Subsidiary focussed on Structured Corporate technology finance), in the capacity as Operations Director and then as Sales & marketing Director. In 2003 Gary launched BondExcel as joint founding shareholder and Group MD. Prior to its sale in 2008, BondExcel peaked with Home Loan advances in excess of R1.5 billion per month. Journey was founded by Gary after the sale of BondExcel. Gary’s qualifications include Marketing Management and a Masters In Business Administration from University of Witwatersrand Business School.

Jack Trevena
Director of Business DevelopmentJack’s career launched in Nedbank group focussed on Asset-based finance. He rose through the ranks to CEO Nedbank Homeloans. During this period of 20 years, Jack gained extensive sales, product, management and banking experience. In 2003, Jack was responsible for co-launching BondExcel, a mortgage origination company, which grew to fourth largest in the industry in four years. Homeloan volumes exceeded R1.5bn per month prior to BondExcel’s sale in 2007 to Finbond Mutual Bank. He was appointed COO: Finbond Group in 2009. In 2010, Jack attended Wits Business School to read a diploma in Business and Executive coaching, a practice which continues to this time. He also pursued other entrepreneurial ventures which were sold to pursue Journey Financial Services. Jack holds a B.Com, MBL and a SEP (Harvard) qualification.

Nikki De Souza
Financial Director
Jennifer Furter
Director of Customer RelationsJennifer started her career on the trading floor of Citigroup in London as a Client Service Agent in 2000, and then moved on to become a Sales Trading Assistant for Citi’s Japanese and European desks. Jennifer assisted in the creation of a Customer Relationship Management team for Equity and Fixed Income Middle Office looking after Institutional Asset Managers in Northern Europe, Great Britain and Ireland and was promoted to Vice President. On her return to Cape Town in 2006, Jennifer joined Datacash (an eCommerce company now owned by MasterCard). Jennifer’s roles included Operations Analyst ,Technical Writer and heading up the Data Analyst team. Jennifer joined Journey in 2011 as Account Manager looking after customer relationships and Journey’s strategic relationship with Direct Axis. In her capacity as Account Director Jennifer now has responsibility for Key Account engagements. Jennifer has a BComm (Accounting and Economics) from UCT and a Diploma in Business Analysis from FTI.
START A JOURNEY
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To experience the power of Journey please complete the form below. On completion you will take a brief Digital Communications Journey driven by our technology.
Your details will not be stored or transferred out of the Journey environment and will only be used for your Personal Journey
Who we partner with
Journey’s success in Financial Services and Insurance Affinity Marketing is the result of partnerships and collaborations with industry leading service providers.
CONTACT US
Let's chat
innovation@journeybeyond.co.za
Telephone
021 764 5336
Physical Address
108 De Waal Road
Diep River
Cape Town
7800
Postal Address
PO Box 50111 Waterfront 8002