Leadership News, Features, and Interviews

Ovo CMO, Nicole McInnes, has confirmed she is exiting the startup telco player this week following a restructure which sees the company’s c-level marketing position removed.

News Corp Australia’s chief operating officer for publishing and former CMO, Damian Eales, has been elected president of the International News Media Association (INMA).

Andrew Egan has been appointed as general manager marketing for Viva Energy Australia.

After only nine months at APN Outdoor, Charlotte Valente has been appointed GM for the B2B division of the Big Red Group (BRG).

​The CMO needs to be responsible for cyber security within organisations, according to a leading marketer.

Striking a healthy balance between innovation and human attributes such as warmth, friendliness and family is the key to ASB’s brand success, its GM of marketing, Shane Evans, believes.

​Aussie has brought on a new head of marketing, Sascha Hunt, who joins fresh from her role as group general manager of marketing at Allianz.

​Greg Segal has been appointed ​president of brand and marketing partnerships for Australia and New Zealand at Live Nation.

​Fitness Australia’s former general manager of marketing, Christy Collier, has joined the Deakin Melbourne Boomers as its new general manager.

After 12 years at Lenovo, CMO50 2018# 5, Nick Reynolds, has taken a role as vice president and global CMO for Johnson Controls – Hitachi air conditioning.

Susan Coghill has been appointed the new CMO of Tourism Australia, replacing Lisa Ronson who left the organisation in March.

For marketers to build trust, they have to appeal to the heart as well as the head, according to UTS study.

Ask any CMO what skills they’re investing in to support the modern marketing function, and chances are a big one will be ‘insights’.

​Imagine standing on the podium at the New York Stock Exchange about to ring the bell to take a start-up public, something a woman has not done for over a decade, with your 13-year-old daughter standing next to you.

​Bega Cheese has been given the right to continue to use the trade dress associated with the peanut butter products it acquired as part of its purchase of the Mondelez Grocery Business in 2017.

Toothpaste doesn’t immediately spring to mind when thinking of purpose-driven brands that aren’t afraid to take a stand. Yet Colgate-Palmolive Australia’s recent decision to withdraw its advertising from Sky News could be just that.

​Jarther Taylor, former GM of marketing at Telstra, has been appointed marketing director of KPMG nationally.

Coles Supermarkets announced its 46th consecutive quarter of growth, with its 2.4 per cent comparable sales growth in the third quarter of the 2019 financial year put down to the ‘Fresh Stikeez’ promotional campaign, which it says enjoyed high customer engagement.

Marketer Col Kennedy has returned to Cotton On after a stint with both Country Road and Grill’d.

It should be no surprise that Anneke van den Broek would run a pet care company someday. At the age of eight, she had made her first foray into the industry by breeding mice and selling them to the local pet store.

​The economy of ownership is over, with a new report showing more than two thirds of Australians have subscription services today, up from 49 per cent just five years ago, and 75 per cent of Australian adults believe in the future people will subscribe to more services and own less physical 'stuff'.