MARISA NAIDOO
BUSINESS UNIT HEAD: INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
BTech (Chem Eng) | NDip (Chem Eng)
Marisa brings over a decade of experience leading research, development, and innovation across water, wastewater, energy, and precious metals. She has held senior roles driving technology adoption, multi-stakeholder collaborations, and gender-inclusive innovation programmes. At Zimile, Marisa leads the new Business Unit for Innovation and New Technologies, shaping forward-thinking, sustainable infrastructure solutions and creating lasting value for clients across Southern Africa.
Zimile’s core competency is the design, construction and supervision of various infrastructure projects through a single source support framework from concept planning through to completion. We are a Proudly South African, Level 1, 100% black-owned and managed company with a strong focus on youth employment.
Our company has an extensive footprint across South Africa with a strong presence in both the public as well as private sectors. Our experience across diverse industries and includes, but is not limited to, work on several rehabilitation, maintenance and upgrades of roads; preliminary, detail design and environmental impact assessments; tender documentation; taxiway reconstruction; and the rehabilitation of runways.
We are Zimile – where bold ideas meet practical solutions. We fuse technical excellence with imaginative thinking to design infrastructure that serves today and shapes a sustainable tomorrow. Rooted in African ingenuity, we engineer with purpose, passion, and a commitment to meaningful impact.