Managing Marketing

Anita Zanesco returns to TrinityP3 as a Business Manager following two years of working on the agency side in new business. The experience reminded her of the many challenges and issues that agencies face in pitching and had her reflecting on the invaluable role pitch consultancy plays when managed with the best interests of the client and the agencies. She shares her experiences and observations...

Anathea Ruys is CEO Australia, UM. She is also a very well-travelled professional, having worked in Asia, Australasia and the USA. Anathea talks with David about their shared international experiences and the learnings she’s brought back to Australia with her; the importance of recognising the changed world we work in; and her ambitions to raise awareness of media as a career path, and her views o...

Matt Bray is the founder of Art Disrupt and the Creative Director of Comms declare, an organisation of advertising, marketing, PR and media professionals who understand the power of communications to create a cleaner, safer climate. He talks about the role creativity plays in addressing the climate crisis and how Comms Declare is collaborating with other creative communities globally, including Cl...

Andy Morley is the director of marketing at Uber and Uber Eats, Australia and New Zealand. He was always attracted to marketing, more for the entrepreneurial opportunities, having managed a nightclub while at University. But his formal marketing career included solid grounding in marketing at Campbell Arnott’s and Diageo working on Johnnie Walker before taking over at the technology company Uber E...

Nick Hand, the commercially savvy, hands-on agency Finance Director, returns to Managing Marketing to discuss the best and the worse of timesheets. While bemoaned by agency staff, particularly the creative department, they have been an essential tool of the finance department, particularly as the agency fees are still largely based on recovering time and costs. But a new artificial intelligence pl...

Ed Howley is the Creative partner at Melbourne's full-service creative agency, By All Means. Like most advertising agencies, they were negatively impacted by the pandemic, particularly one of the smaller but vibrant independent agencies on the scene. But also because being based in Melbourne they had to weather the longest lockdown in the Western world. But even with this significant challenge, Ed...

Drew Baker is the Technical Director and a partner at Funkhaus, an LA based digital agency working at the intersection of strategy, design, content, and technology. Drew shares his thoughts on what makes a great website and how important, but challenging it can be to clear understand who you are and what you want to achieve. He shares his experiences with clients for whom they have designed and bu...

Andrew Fraser is a Creative Director. He is also the founder of “We Meet At Last”, an enterprise where brands go to work directly with creative talent. The concept arose during a career initially in big network agencies, then smaller indie agencies, freelance and then in-house agencies as a creative, creative director and executive creative director. Now, he is building a new enterprise, where cre...

Francis Coady is the Chief Marketing Officer at Havas Media Australia, but it is his background in the music and entertainment industry that has shaped his career and his view of building and managing brands. The importance of storytelling and narrative and the strategies to create engagement and build loyalty with the audience that he brings to brands and the agency. He shares the lessons and the...

Nisha Rajamani is a long-standing media agency professional and more recently has served on the Media Federation of Australia’s DE&I Advisory Council. She also happens to be an Australian woman with an Indian cultural heritage. David and Nisha discuss her personal cultural journey, events that shaped her views of herself and her professional surroundings, the strategic development of the MFA’s DE&...

Jack Watts is the Global CEO of Bastion, Australia’s largest independent agency, with offices in the USA, New Zealand and of course Australia. Founded in 2009 by Jack and his brother, they have grown through developing and acquiring a formidable breadth of specialist capabilities across the communication spectrum. Sharing their foundation story, he demonstrates how two industry outsiders have take...

Adam Murphy has an extensive career in research, insights and innovation, particularly focusing on the brewing industry. This has led him to founding Curioso, to champion a culture of curiosity in the commercial world. Adam shares his belief in the importance of fostering curiosity within organisations as an essential skill. Yet many organisations are dominated by counter-curiosity relief and prac...

Anne Miles is an entrepreneur, founder of the Suits & Sneakers agency, an industry mentor and outspoken advocate for big issues in marketing and society more broadly. In this wide-ranging discussion, David and Anne talk about everything from professional and personal experiences that have shaped them both, to why Anne believes that the ShEqual movement is misguided, and the importance and relevanc...

Ryan Gracie is the Chief Marketing Officer of the ASX listed MyDeal.com.au, one of the fastest-growing marketplaces in Australia. But Ryan has built a reputation as a retail brand and business builder, from his days in the bricks and mortar JB HiFi to his role leading the transformation of Catch.com..au to today. He shares his passion and excitement for retail and reflects on the career path that...

Matt Houltham is CMO at Glow, a research platform with the purpose of using research to raise awareness and understanding of how a company’s ESG-related policies and actions affect consumer sentiment and commercial performance. Matt and David discuss insights, politics, ESG in the agency sector and the importance of business and consumers to shaping the agenda. https://www.trinityp3.com/2022/02/pu...

Jack Byrne is the founder and Managing Director of Hatched Media. Jack is unusual because he took the bold step of starting and actively running a media agency without having any experience of working in one. What’s more, he’s made a great success of it - Hatched is now recognised as a rising star in the independent agency sector. Jack shares his personal journey, what motivates him as a business...

Mish Fletcher is the Chief Growth Officer for IPG (Interpublic Group) Asia-Pacific. She is also an industry professional passionate about public relations and building agency brands and growing agency businesses including OgilvyOne, Accenture Interactive, FCB/SIX and more. It is a skill she has used to build the profiles of the agency leaders she has worked with, and more recently for herself. Mis...

Tomasz Pawlikowski, past-Chair of Publicis Communications, and ex-CEO of Publicis Groupe, based in Central & Eastern Europe, is about to embark on the second chapter, the Chapter 2, of his career. But first, he took the time to compare and contrast the two different centuries (20th and 21st) of advertising he had worked, to assess what had happened and how it is happening again on a global and loc...

Nick Hand, the commercially savvy, hands-on Finance Director, returns to discuss this often controversial topic of payment terms. As a CPA, with more than two decades of experience managing the finances of media, creative, PR agencies and more, he shares his experience and explains the often hidden costs to agencies and their clients of long payment terms, but also some of the ways agencies can us...

Philip Hwang is the APAC Head of Strategy and Michael Vaudrey is the APAC Head of Transcreation at SGK, a global brand experience company. They discuss the role of transcreation globally and the complex market drivers that make transcreation an increasingly important capability for brands. They share the importance of culture in developing and maintaining collaboration between the various partners...

Matt Farrugia is the managing partner and co-founder of The Mutiny Group, a marketing technology company that provide brands and their organisations with AI- data analytics platform to analyse and inform marketing and business decisions around marketing mix modelling (MMM) and return on marketing investment (ROMI) at the speed of data. He shares his journey from avionics tech-head to direct and di...

Ho! Ho! Ho! He is the Production Manager of Toys. The Strategy Planner of Distribution. And the Chief Creative Officer of Christmas. A little Sparrow has told us that Santa Claus is coming to town. And he knows who in media, marketing and advertising has been naughty and who has been nice. After the past two years of pandemic blues, we talk with Santa and find out how he sees the current situation...

Dan Ingall is CEO of Big Red Communications, a proudly independent and well-established advertising agency with a rich heritage of great work, particularly in the retail category. Dan and David discuss the essence of great retail advertising and retail clients, in the process debunking some myths and stereotypes about what working with ‘retailers’ is really like. More broadly, they also discuss th...

Joe Talcott is a speaker, a mentor and a marketer, who has held major marketing roles in many major brands. But more particularly, Joe is a champion of the importance of creativity in marketing and advertising and has a passion for providing marketers with the skills and practical tools they need to succeed through the business he partners in, Creatism. He is also an invaluable Mentor in the Marke...

Matt Perfect is a procurement guy. But more than this, he is advocating for diverse suppliers, building social procurement capacity, and focused on doing the deals that matter. He does this through his facilitation and coaching, as a principal of Impact Spender. Unlike many in marketing, Matt believes procurement has an essential role in driving great business and marketing outcomes by doing good,...