Patience Dambe-Hansen joined Coca-Cola South Africa in April 2008 as the Strategic Initiatives Director, from FORGE Marketing and Management (Pty) Ltd, where she was the Executive Director.

She has 16 years of executive management experience. She has an extensive business network in Southern Africa and the United States, with key decision-makers from private corporations, strategic organisations and government. Patience has highly developed corporate management skills in business strategy, corporate affairs, entrepreneurship, business acquisitions, strategic marketing and public relations.

Her achievements include the development of 36 lifestyles programmes for BOP-TV, and six episodes of Fitness programmes for the SABC. She also featured in several print media articles on lifestyle and motivational development. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Kaya FM.

She holds a BA Honours degree from the Queens University in Kingston, Ontario in Canada.