As a global and local brand marketer, Ingham’s offered Seb Brandt the opportunity to learn a new category (poultry) and new sector (agriculture). It’s a long way from positions previously held with Red Bull and PepsiCo.

For the past five years, Chaminda Ranasinghe has been leading the push towards contemporary ways of working and agile marketing at RMIT. It has been challenging at times, and never more so when Covid-19 and subsequent financial difficulties struck.

Operational courage in Steffen Daleng’s book means taking chances, trying new things and embracing discomfort to a degree. Cultural bravery, meanwhile, is about doing the right thing and standing up for and protecting people around us, “especially if it's an unpopular opinion but the right thing to do”. “I encourage both by doing them publicly,” the Booktopia CMO says.

At the height of the pandemic and when Australia’s international borders were firmly shut, University of NSW marketing chief, Sofia Lloyd-Jones, assumed ownership of international student recruitment. The responsibility meant devising the post-Covid rebuild strategy while there were still many unknowns.

Mel Hopkins hasn’t had a golden marketing moment as Optus marketing chief this past year. And she’s rather happy about it.

For Dan Ferguson, bravery in business is often linked with change – championing it, leading it or being open to change personally.

The initiatives Myer has put in place to better unlock the power of its loyalty business has proven a defining play for the retailer, its chief customer officer, Geoff Ikin, says.

Michaela Chan’s golden marketing moment over the last 12 months also reflects one of her bold decisions as a CMO.

Non-alcoholic spirits might well be a tall ask for a nation known for its love of a drink, however, Paul Gloster, CMO of Lyre’s is helping the company make fantastic inroads.

A campaign called 'Satisfy your Strange’ is one which could have backfired on the CMO of Chatime, Joanna Robinson. But instead, it ended up being a boon for the brand.

Realising brand value is the name of the game for Zara Curtis, who has been appointed interim chief marketing officer at IAG.

Kate Whitney is switching meal kits for drinks and is joining Treasury Wine Estates as its first chief digital and technology officer.

Seven West Media (SWM) chief marketing officer, Charlotte Valente, is leaving her post after more than three years with the broadcaster and media giant.

When Leandro Perez arrived back in the APAC region in February 2020 as Salesforce's vice-president and CMO, he had no idea of what he was about to walk into.

Luxury hotel amenities product producer, Vanity Group, has promoted Naomi Rheinberger to global marketing and communications director to spearhead the brand and its portfolio’s growth.

Verint CMO, Celia Fleischaker, believes it’s high time for marketing and the contact centre to become better acquainted.

There’s something particularly contradictory for Mimecast CMO, Bernd Leger, in persistently low awareness of cybersecurity across marketing leaders given the rise and rise of cybersecurity threats.

Australian messaging solutions provider, Known, has brought on experienced marketing leader, Tori Starkey, as its new director of marketing.

​CMO is delighted to announce our latest special virtual event exploring marketing leadership and the new world of work is coming up on 20 October 2022.

In the third and final episode of our 3-part CMO50 video series exploring modern marketing and why it’s become a matter of trust, we’re delighted to be joined by Telstra’s former CMO and now digital services and sales executive, Jeremy Nicholas, and Adobe VP Marketing Asia-Pacific and Japan, Duncan Egan.

The potential of physical availability rather than pure mental availability, is key to how Nova’s recently installed chief growth officer, Adam Johnson, is looking to propel growth.