Judges’ Spotlight live webinar featuring SA Harvest
Winner of the 2025 Judges’ Highest Accolade at ASCEA 2025
Discover why their humanitarian supply chain has become a benchmark for impact, resilience and innovation at ASCEA.
In just five years, SA Harvest has scaled from a single vehicle to a national, tech-enabled reverse logistics network — rescuing surplus food, eliminating cost barriers for community organisations, and delivering 83.8 million meals to people facing food insecurity across South Africa. Their model has saved lives, redirected hundreds of millions of rands back into frontline services, and delivered measurable environmental gains — all while remaining agile enough to respond to national emergencies.
This live webinar will unpack:
✔️ What truly impressed the judges
✔️ How impact, innovation and scale were demonstrated
✔️ Why this model is scalable, sustainable and replicable
✔️ What other organisations can learn — and apply — to their own initiatives
11 February 2026 at 11:00 (SAST)
Speakers
Ozzy Nel
Rethinking Supply Chains for a Net-Zero Future
Ozzy Nel serves as the Chief Operating Officer of SA Harvest, South Africa’s leading food rescue and sustainability-drivensupply chain innovator. Under his strategic leadership, SA Harvest has evolved from a one-bakkie operation into a national force, delivering over 80 million meals while diverting thousands of tonnes of food from landfills. He is a seasoned logistics and operations strategist with a background in hospitality, supply chain transformation, and large-scale crisis management. His work is redefining food security by leveraging demand-driven logistics, corporate partnerships, and real-time data insights to build an end-to-endfood ecosystem that reduces environmental impact while ensuring communities get the nutrition they need.
Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall has worked in the Logistics Industry, specifically related to courier and aviation, for the last forty years.
Having worked for several airlines, including a stint in the Air Force, he has been the CEO of Bidair Cargo for the last 13 years. Bidair Cargo is a domestic airline which operates a fleet of Boeing 737 freighters on overnight express routes serving the courier industry.
In 2004 he was appointed CEO of the South African Express Parcel Association (SAEPA), the voice of the South African Courier industry, a position which he still holds today. Passionate about training and people development, he has been deeply involved in the design and evolution of the da Vinci Supply Chain program.
Liesl de Wet
Liesl holds a BCom in Communications and a BA Honours in Marketing Communications from the University of Johannesburg, along with qualifications in sustainability-related disciplines from the UCT, BMGI, and Rhodes University Business School. A former Chairperson of the IESSA Johannesburg branch, she gained extensive experience in lighting, energy efficiency, and carbon reduction.
Her project management of Barloworld Logistics’ carbon footprint initiative deepened her expertise in corporate sustainability and reporting. As the company’s Sustainability Champion and co-chair of the NBI Business Climate Change Working Group, Liesl contributed to shaping South Africa’s business response to climate change through engagement forums and knowledge-sharing initiatives.