Managing Marketing

Blaine Callard is the CEO at Freedom Furniture Australia. Previously, he spent 24 years at Harvey Norman, an organisation that famously does not work with agencies wherever possible. In a wide ranging and energetic discussion, Blaine and Ellie talk about perceptions of marketing from a CEO; what marketing teams need to do to influence the C-Suite; the power of modelling and what to do (and what no...

Sharon Zeev Poole is the founder and Director at Agent99, Elzanne Strydom is the founder and CEO of Connected Culture and Dan Beaumont is the founder and Managing Director of GAME Creative Advisory. Marketers know that the risks brands take today often won’t see results for six months to a year. So given today’s tough economic climate, when companies want to see ROI now, getting brands to take cha...

Kiaran Geen, APAC President; Samantha Cunliffe, Managing Director ANZ; and Jake Hird, APAC VP of Strategy & Solutions at Dentsu B2B, share the insights and trends from this, the fourth global edition of the Superpower Index Research, which promises “a unique perspective on the B2B buyer and the difference between winning and losing”. While business-to-business marketing, or B2B, may not have t...

Kylie Ridler-Dutton, TrinityP3’s senior global marketing consultant, has spent the past decade managing some of the most high-profile agency pitches in Australia and has built a reputation for being unflinching fair and firm to both agencies and marketers alike. In that time, she has heard many myths and misconceptions about pitching and pitch management. While she cannot speak for the whole indus...

A year can be a long time in marketing. Technology, data, media channels and more are driving relentless change. But imagine if you take on the responsibility of managing a much-loved brand that has existed for 150 years. What would be the challenges and issues you would be dealing with today? Chris Illman took on that challenge when he joined the Bickford’s Group of Companies as the Group Marketi...

Robyn Sefiani is the founder and President ANZ of Sefiani, part of the Clarity Group Worldwide. She is one of the most seasoned pioneers in the world of Corporate PR, has been PR leader of the year, won PR agency of the year, and has spent 12 years prior to setting up Sefiani at Edelman.  In this episode she talks about how reputation management has changed over the years; what’s involved in build...

Kristy Camarillo is the GM of The Royals Sydney; Rebecca Den Braber is the GM of Hatched; and Renee Murray is Head of People and Culture at Half Dome.  In this episode, Ellie Angell and the group talk about a wide range of DE&I topics, challenges and opportunities; the changes happening in our industry and how effective we are at creating truly inclusive workplaces; our hopes for the future, a...

Rhys Ryan is CEO of Porter Novelli Australia and has worked extensively around cyber security and reputation management. He has spent 15 years with Porter Novelli both here in Sydney, Melbourne and the US, as well as a 6 year stint with Edelman in the US too – in New York and San Francisco.  In this episode Rhys talks about how to get proactive and prepare for strategic communications, issues and...

Praveen Narra has worked in the AI space well before it became cool. He has built a career in app development, web products, consultancy, and AI software and digital transformation solutions. He's one of the most seasoned pioneers in AI and the founder and CEO of Tech.us in Silicon Valley. Over the past 23 years, Tech.us has successfully executed over 1,350 projects across AI, SaaS, and Mobile, se...

Ellie Angell is a Senior Consultant at TrinityP3 and one of a handful of openly transwomen with a long career in media and advertising in Australia, Asia and originally the UK. Her unique perspective on the issues of transpeople working within the advertising and marketing industry and the challenges of coming out to not just family and friends but to colleagues and the wider industry, With the re...

Digital Immigrant, Victoria Curro is the Managing Director, and Digital Native, Amy Toma, is an Associate Visual Designer at R/GA Australia and they discuss the insights and consequences of their Gen One research. One of Australia’s largest and growing demographic is one that has never known the world without the internet. And yet, most of the way we interface with the internet has been designed f...

Catherine King, Chief Strategy Officer at Leo Burnett, Professor Carl Rhodes, Dean of UTS Business School and author of Woke Capitalism, and purpose lead Marketer extraordinaire Adam Ballesty discuss the finds from the latest round of the Good Study. ‘The Good Study 2024’, by Leo Burnett Australia, in partnership with UTS Business School and Zenith Australia, found that while Australians overwhelm...

Trena Blair is the CEO of FD Global Connections, who advises companies on successfully scaling their businesses to the USA. Trena is She is also an Amazon number 1 Best Selling Author, International Gold Stevie Award Winner (2022 & 2023), US Growth Specialist, Global Mentor, and a Non-Executive Director. Marketers and their agencies talk about brands all the time. There are discussions on bran...

Once upon a time there were advertising agencies that offered clients a full range of services, being media and creative. Where the two were considered, developed, recommended and delivered together.  Then, in the last millennium, media was split off, and media and creative were often handled by separate and sometimes competing companies. Channel strategies, creative strategies, and connection str...

Mark Green is the ANZ President of Accenture Song, Group CEO & Co-Founder of The Monkeys, and Chairman of the of the Advertising Council of Australia. He joins Nathan Hodges and Darren Woolley to follow up on a discussion about the various trends we have observed in agency rosters.  One of the examples discussed was the recent appointment of The Monkeys, part of Accenture Song, to the NRMA acc...

Kyle Roof is the co-founder of Page Optimizer Pro. He is also responsible for developing and implementing all SEO techniques used by the agency High Voltage SEO and is the co-founder of Internet Marketing Gold, a global community of 3000+ SEO professionals who test and prove cutting-edge SEO techniques. No matter what you are reading, watching or listening to at the moment, everyone in the marketi...

Kieran Antill is the Director of Brand and Marketing at Ne-Lo, and Ross Hastings is the Managing Director. Their agency, Ne-Lo, has its foundation in a gym of all places, where two people with wildly different backgrounds and perspectives, yet with a shared fascination with the challenges of modern business, met. Kieren, who was heading up the creative team at the late JWT and was at a point of ex...

Ellie Angell is a Business Director at TrinityP3 and has been responsible for advising marketers through some of the more high profile and complex pitches over the past decade. Her experience has time and again that often pitching is not the ideal solution..  Since the pandemic, agencies worldwide have been increasingly vocal about ditching the pitch, and trade media have run headlines and opinion...

Nathan Hodges is the Managing Director at TrinityP3 and has led significant projects to redesign marketer agency rosters to deliver a more seamless delivery. This often results in the need to tender for a complex range of marketing capabilities. Since the pandemic, agencies worldwide have been increasingly vocal about ditching the pitch, and trade media have run headlines and opinion pieces claimi...

Chris Walton, Managing Director, Nunn Media, has a long and successful career in media and back in November 2013 he was asked to provide his predictions for the coming trends in media. The result of which appeared in Mumbrella under the headline “How big data will transform media agencies”. Here we are more than ten years later to discuss how those predictions have aged over that time. A week is a...

Anton Buchner, TrinityP3 Senior Consultant and known as the ROI Guy is responsible for managing and facilitating some of the most interesting and nuanced pitches in this country over the past decade. Since the pandemic, agencies around the world have been increasingly vocal about ditching the pitch, and trade media have run headlines and opinion pieces claiming it is broken and even dead. As Austr...

Lydia Feely is the TrinityP3 General Manager responsible for managing and facilitating some of this country's most high-profile creative pitches over the past decade. But also brings a marketer focus to the conversation, with a career managing marketing teams across the UK and Australia. Since the pandemic, agencies around the world have been increasingly vocal about ditching the pitch, and trade...

Coming from Tim O’Neill’s background in running one of Australia’s leading digital agencies - Reactive - selling and then meeting Jason Ross at Accenture, they’ve jumped to now officially launch a next-gen generative AI agency called Time Under Tension.  While there is much AI hype around creation and ideation, there is also much caution and concern. Anton talks with Tim and Ross about where and h...

Kylie Ridler-Dutton, a senior consultant at TrinityP3, is responsible for managing and facilitating some of the most high-profile creative pitches in this country over the past decade and is here to discuss the implications for any marketer managing their own pitches. Since the pandemic, agencies worldwide have been increasingly vocal about ditching the pitch, and trade media have run headlines an...

Nick Hand, the Senior Financial Consultant at TrinityP3, has managed and negotiated some of the most high-profile agency pitches in this country over the past decade and is here to discuss the implications for any marketer managing their own pitches. Since the pandemic, agencies worldwide have been increasingly vocal about ditching the pitch, and trade media have run headlines and opinion pieces c...