SodaStream has promoted its Australian marketing director, Laura Wilson, to managing director locally, becoming the first female in the post.

Next-generation payments and shopping services vendor, Klarna, has recruited rival Zip Co’s marketing chief as its new director of marketing.

CMO is extending nominations for this year’s CMO50 2021 program to a final deadline Monday 16 August 2021. Don’t miss this opportunity to have your marketing leadership, as well as the work of your team, recognised and get that questionnaire completed now!

Catch Group has confirmed Jason Bagg as its new chief marketing and commercial officer in a newly combined role that incorporates marketing, customer strategy and loyalty programs.

Building trust and educating consumers about cryptocurrency are firmly in the sights of Banxa’s inaugural marketing chief, Dave Malcolm, who officially joined the business this past week.

There’s under four weeks left until nominations for our seventh annual CMO50 list of Australia’s most innovative and effective marketing leaders close!

Livestock farm management platform, AgriWebb, has gone from startup seven years ago to having 15 million head of livestock under management across more than 30 million hectares in Australia alone. That’s not including the farmers using its platform in the UK, South Africa and, soon, the US, where it has just opened an office in Denver, Colorado.

Seek has recruited World Vision Australia’s chief marketing officer, Maryanne Tsiatsias, as its new marketing director for A/NZ.

South Australian Tourism Commission CMO, Brent Hill, has been confirmed as Tourism Fiji’s new CEO.

In our latest food for thought, we ask three marketing leaders who have switched industry sectors to share how they're applying the experiences gleaned in one category to their latest role.

Nominations for the CMO50 2021 are now open. We ask several of this year’s judges for their views on how marketers can put their best foot forward this year

Experience FMCG marketer, Adam Ballesty, has joined Domino’s as its new chief marketing officer for Australia and New Zealand.

The a2 Milk Company has confirmed former Danone consumer marketing director, Edith Bailey, as its new chief marketing officer to commence later this year and revealed an interim CMO in the meantime.

Mobile menu ordering platform, me&u, has brought on former My Muscle Chef marketer, Clementine Churchill, as its new head of marketing.

Samsung Australia has confirmed the departure of its CMO, Josh Grace, following a restructure of its corporate marketing function.

Audi Australia’s chief customer and marketing officer, Nikki Warburton, will leave the automotive group in July after a three-year tenure.

Brownes Dairy marketing and sales chief, Natalie Sarich-Dayton, has been promoted to the CEO’s post, becoming the company’s first female leader in its 135-year history.

Those first 60 to 90 days in your new role are crucial. In fact, they’re so crucial, you’ll find dozens, if not hundreds, of books written on the subject. And chief marketing officers are no different in their need to prove their worth and importantly, set themselves up as big ‘M’ marketers to the CEO and executive team in those early days.

It’s organisations boasting strong alignment between marketing and other functions – especially the CIO - that are going to get the great things done that matter most to the bottom line.

Transparency, preparedness, a unified communications approach - both proactively and reactively – and perspective are key to brands preparing for as well as navigating their way through a cyber data breach, several industry experts say.

Unifying customer service and data insights and building a destination marketing mindset and approach are key priorities for West HQ chief marketing officer, Michaela Chan.