Andrew Birkic has no trouble recalling the day of his first interview for a role with the Ford Motor Company of Australia.

Mark Lollback is calling time on his GroupM CEO role at the end of this week after a five-year stint at the helm of the WPP AUNZ media business.

International Women’s Day 2021 highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic unequally affected women, from losing jobs to having a greater care burden. CMO examines some of the measures organisations are taking to help redress that imbalance.

Former Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) marketing chief, Lisa Sharp, has taken the CEO reins at Herefords Australia.

JCurve’s former chief marketing officer has joined ecommerce site search vendor, Searchspring, as its new head of Asia-Pacific.

A rebrand, retail network expansion and digital acceleration are all firmly in the sights of KYHA Studios recently installed CEO and former Tabcorp and William Hill marketing chief, Claire Murphy.

iSelect has promoted its chief marketing officer, Warren Hebard, to the top job after an external and internal executive search.

Newly rebranded sports and entertainment industry strategy consultancy, Tenka Group, has promoted its marketing chief to managing director and will bring on a new divisional manager of marketing strategy as part of a leadership reshuffle.

Jan Hutton is taking the step up from CMO to CEO and has been appointed the new chief of Australian Tourism Data Warehouse.

Andrew Birkic is now Ford Australia and New Zealand CEO, moving up from chief product marketer for Ford Ranger and Everest, reporting to Ford International Markets Group (IMG) president Mark Ovenden. Birkic has taken over the position from Kay Hart, who is moving to a European-based global role as enterprise product line manager for Ford Van and Bus.

Global tech services giant, NTT, has promoted its local chief marketing officer to the top A/NZ job following the retirement of its long-serving chief.

Bernard Wilson has been appointed as chief executive officer at Cashrewards, departing data science and artificial intelligence firm, Quantium.

MooGoo has appointed former Domino’s A/NZ CMO Melody Livingstone as its new CEO, taking over from founder and current CEO, Craig Jones.

Movember’s digitally-driven MayEight festival has been heralded a success after chalking up more than 33,000 views this year.

In our latest episode of Conversations over a cuppa with CMO, we talk to Sportsbet chief executive and former CMO50 #1, Barni Evans, about lessons in the crisis and the more innovative ways it's working to keep customers engaged.

oOh!media chief customer officer, David Scribner, is heading for the exit after what the company says has been an executive review of its business plans for the future.

Former Infotrack marketing leader and CMO50 honorary, Roni Millard, has taken the step up to executive leadership as joined GDR as managing director to build out its agency offering.

​Marketers should be proud of the varied skills and experiences they bring to the executive table, former marketer and now CEO of BarBooks Australia, Morag Latta, believes.

T2 CEO and experienced FMCG marketing leader, Nicole Sparshott, will take over the Australia and New Zealand reins at Unilever next month after the retirement of local CEO, Clive Stiff.

Campbell Arnott’s former CMO has made the leap to the top job, becoming the new managing director for Hasbro’s Pacific operations.

​International expansion and brand building is top of the list for Starward’s recently installed CEO and former category marketer as he takes the reins of the Australian whisky distillery.