ANZ former head of marketing and marketing centre of expertise lead, Carolyn Bendall, has left the banking group after a 20-year career encompassing a host of senior marketing and divisional positions.

Nova Entertainment has confirmed its chief marketing officer, Tony Thomas, will leave the business this week after a nine-year tenure.

Virgin Australia has unveiled a new executive leadership team, which included the promotion of current group executive of brand, marketing and public affairs, Danielle Keighery, to chief experience officer.

Australia Post has confirmed former Coles brand and media leader, Amber Collins, as its new chief marketing officer.

Former World Vision chief marketing, product and data officer, Teresa Sperti, has launched a new transformation and growth advisory and training organisation, Arktic Fox.

A purpose embedded in female empowerment and a mobile app taking the fitness and health world by storm: What’s not for Sweat’s chief brand and marketing officer, Michael Scott, to like?

Audi Australia CMO, Nikki Warburton, has been promoted to the new role of chief customer and marketing officer at the automotive giant.

Eventbrite head of marketing, Josh McNicol, has been promoted to general manager for Asia-Pacific and will lead a team of more than 35 staff across its regional offices spanning Melbourne, New Zealand and Singapore.

Origin Energy’s former chief marketing officer has joined the NAB team in the newly created role of general manager, strategic marketing.

Rapid investment into digital and technology, along with the need for growth, are seeing more marketers stepping into Australian boardrooms. But unless more of the marketing fraternity get onto the c-suite, do a better job of understanding the balance sheet and firmly grasp risk and governance, they’re going to struggle to gain a substantial foothold long-term.

Former Qantas, NRL, Air New Zealand and IAG marketing leader, Lewis Pullen, has taken up his next endeavour as head of sales and marketing for Swisse Re-backed digital insurance business, iptiQ.

​The need to move toward matrix, cross-functional, or hybrid structures to better enable collaboration and a customer-focused approach is driving 54 per cent of Australian employers to restructure their department or organisation.

​More than 120 of Australia's marketing managers and leaders descended on the International Convention Centre in Sydney. Here are a few pictorial highlights from the third annual conference, dedicated to leading and sustaining the modern marketing function.

Mobile customer experience consultancy, Geronimo, has brought on BT Financial’s former chief marketing officer as its new COO.

​​CMO50’s 2017 third place winner, Stephanie Tully​, has been promoted to the role of chief customer officer within Qantas.

Nestle Oceania’s director of ebusiness, strategy and marketing, Martin Brown, has taken up the chair’s post at the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA).

​Impact, a partnership automation company, has appointed its first APAC marketing director, Ayaan Mohamud.

In recent weeks, speculation has risen as to whether the number of global brands appointing chief growth officers rather than CMOs signals another executive marketing makeover is underway.

UniSuper has brought on a new chief strategy and marketing officer off the back of a restructure of its org chart.

West Australian-based investment firm, Minderoo, has recruited former Telstra CMO, Joe Pollard, to advise its marketing and corporations team over coming months.

Binary debates or sticking to a ‘speciality’ in marketing is doing the industry a disservice, marketing stalwart, Karl Winther, told CMO. Marketers need to be open to all tactics and avenues to be effective, he said.