Suhana Gordhan is an Executive Creative Director at FCB Johannesburg. She is passionate about the art of copywriting and loves parenting an idea well enough so that nobody molests it along its journey from birth to maturity. She believes that the best agency-client relationships are more marriage and less bondage.

Gordhan is a Hindu, who learned very quickly that there are no sacred cows in advertising. One of her favourite moments was during her time as Creative Director on Nando’s, when she pissed off a dictator and won a Loerie Grand Prix because of it. Some of her other accolades include a Black Eagle, Creative Circle Ad of the Year, a Silver Pixel at The Bookmarks, 7 Cannes Lions (1 Silver, 1 Bronze and 5 shortlists), a graphite D&AD pencil and Best of Show in radio at The One Show Awards.

One of her career highlights was being selected by FCB Global as one of two Creative Directors to attend a surfing and leadership program in Nicaragua in 2016. In 2017, she was named one of Destiny Magazine’s Power of 40 Candidates. In the 2019 Loeries’ Creative Rankings, she was ranked top 15 th Creative Director in the country. Gordhan’s work for Coca-Cola, this year featured in Contagious Magazine as one of three campaigns in The World’s Best Strategies.

She was baptized as a Cannes Juror in 2016 on the Direct Panel. In addition, she has served at One Show in the Direct Category as well as on Print and Out of Home at The Clios. Gordhan has a strong commitment to the South African industry and was thus nominated to join both The Loeries Board and The Creative Circle Exco. She is the former Chairperson of The Loerie Awards. Recently, she was invited to be part of a Technical Working Group of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19.

When not making ads, she enjoys people watching, hiking in the mountains and training Capoeira - a 400-year-old Afro-Brazilian Martial Arts (often mistaken by her colleagues to be an innocuous dance form).