Woolworth has confirmed the immediate departure of its first CMO, Tony Phillips, after just one year in the role.

Australian taxi app and mobile payments provider, ingogo, has recruited Nine Entertainment’s former marketing director as its first CMO.

SAP Australia and New Zealand has confirmed a new CMO following the departure of Ray Kloss to a chief marketer’s role at Cisco.

Optus has confirmed its former managing director of customer, Vicki Brady, has its new marketing and product leader.

Workforce planning cloud vendor, Anaplan, has appointed Australian B2B software expert, Grant Halloran, as its global CMO.

Technical roles in marketing are on the rise and more candidates are emerging with a combination of traditional and technology skills, according to the latest Hays quarterly report.

Marketo’s global CMO, Sanjay Dholakia, is the first to admit finding the formula for strategic marketing in a world of digitally driven, technology enabled customer engagement is a work in progress. What is confident of, however, is marketing’s role as both the steward of customer engagement, as well as go-to market strategy.

When Tony Phillips took his first steps out of the advertising agency world and into Coles’ marketing team in 2007, doing a good job largely meant producing an ad on time.

Hot off the heels of its UK success, The Marketing Academy has launched its inaugural Australia Leaders Programme, aimed at training up the next generation of CMOs.

Beauty subscription service bellabox has appointed Stephanie Michel to CMO and Carmel Morgani to commercial director as part of the company’s move to support the next stage of growth planning.

HR and recruitment firm, Randstad, has appointed its first chief marketing officer for Asia-Pacific.

CMOs may be gaining influence across executive teams today, but trying to find marketers who’ve risen up to CEO still isn’t easy in Australia. For the few who have reached this corporate milestone, like Virgin Mobile’s David Scribner, that lack of fellow peer progression is a little sad.

Marketers looking to become the next CMO and CEO will need to rely on their leadership and cultural skills, not marketing or management expertise, if they wish to succeed, according to a respect global business consultant.

Grant Pattison talks with CMO about what it takes to be a marketing technologist, his priorities, what technology and cultural frameworks he’s investing in to work with the rest of the business, and friction with the IT department.

The latest Spencer Stuart CMO tenure study has found marketing chiefs in the US are now staying in their jobs for 48 months on average.

When it comes to today’s CMO, there is no one-size-fits-all skillset. But a new study by Forbes Insights has revealed marketing chiefs are now falling into six clearly defined personas.

Tourism Australia’s former CMO, Nick Baker, has become the new CEO for Australian online gifting site, RedBalloon.

The rapid growth of ecommerce in Australia has opened up a lucrative new opportunity for Australia’s logistics industry. But for many of those companies, who previously were deeply entrenched in the world of business-to-business relationships, the switch to servicing consumers has required a switch in customer service mindset.

McDonald’s A/NZ CMO, Mark Lollback, isn’t someone who backs away from a challenge or the need to change. So when he was offered the opportunity to help McDonald's turn its go-to-market strategy around and find a way to deliver stronger long-term value to its customers to drive sustainable business growth, he jumped at it.

The marketing technologist may be playing an important bridging role between marketing and IT right now, but its rise will be short lived as CMOs become technologists in their own right.

Myer CEO, Bernie Brookes, is stepping down with immediate effect, a move that sees the retailer’s chief technologist take the top job and its CMO become his deputy.