Managing Marketing

Within a year of taking the CEO role at Spark Foundry, Imogen Hewitt took this media agency to the top of the 2020 new business rankings in Australia after just one year in the CEO role. She has spent the last two decades learning, honing and learning some more in full-service, media and creative agencies both in Australia and South-East Asia. Holding varied positions with roles across media, digi...

Rob Shwetz has worked around the world, in marketing, media and advertising. From Asia, to North America and now in Australia. He is a B-Lab trained B Consultant and a graduate of the Australian Institute of company directors, and a partner and Strategist for the Growth Activists, a strategy and communication consultancy with a focus on ESG. Rob shares the latest trend in ESG and the impact this w...

Martin Karaffa is an associate partner at the world-famous Hofstead Insights. But Martin and I first met last millennium when he was a senior writer at Ogilvy, and then we worked together at JWT last century, where he was a senior strategist. It was a career change that took him to NYC via Tokyo, to become the global planning director. Then he was Director of International Planning at BBDO in Muni...

Paul Everson is a director and Chief Growth Officer at Paper + Spark, an independent consulting firm specializing in business transformation. But Paul has also enjoyed a career with leadership roles in many of the world’s most famous agency brands, including J. Walter Thompson, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi and Young & Rubicam. He is also a lecturer, an advisory board member and a non-executive d...

Dharshi Harindra is a lawyer, and the co-founder of Roshi Global, which provides strategic advisory services for startups. An organising committee member for Women for Impact, here to break down barriers to funding for Women and non-binary people of colour in Australia. A Legal Advisor to the Museum of the Future in Dubai. And an advisory board member to the data management platform for financial...

​​Ben Slocombe is a commercially and creatively focused marketer, mentor and has built an extensive and successful career in CPG, particularly in beverages and specifically in alcoholic beverages. Most recently as a Director for Beer and Cider at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Australia. He shares what attracted him to marketing, What attracted you to marketing, why too many marketers have short t...

Stuart Jaffray is the Managing Director at integrated Business to Business marketing agency Green Hat. Green Hat assists their clients with B2B strategy and creativity to attract, engage and delight their customers and turn them into loyal advocates, measuring everything that matters and aligning Sales & Marketing to deliver revenue outcomes. But with a career background in direct marketing, media...

Sean Lyons is the Global CEO at the IPG agency R/GA. For those of you that don’t know, R/GA is a creative technology agency and innovation consultancy headquartered in New York, with a global footprint R/GA was co-founded way back in 1977 by Bob Greenberg and his brother Richard as a digital assisted film making studio, but today is a leading technology innovation company for brands with breakthro...

The final part of the Ampel-produced trilogy on the power of audio sees Darren talking to Lauren Deighton , Ampel’s Director of Media and Partnerships, about podcast performance measurement and the all-important conversations with clients. On-Demand Audio is still a new medium, at least commercially, and framing the conversation in the right way is vital to having everyone viewing audio from the s...

It's easy to make a podcast, right? You just need an idea, buy a mic and off you go right? ... Wrong!  Multiple factors that make or break a podcast and if you don't start in the right place, you're setting yourself up for failure.  In the second part of this three part series produced by Ampel, , Michelle Lomas, Ampel GM & Head of Strategy sits down with Darren to discuss the development of a suc...

Josh Butt is the Founder and Executive Producer of Audio Content Agency Ampel. In this three part series of Managing Marketing, the team at Ampel take Trinity P3 Founder and CEO Darren Woolley on a journey through the state of sound. Audio on demand has had exceptional growth between 2014-2022 with the huge success of podcasts and radio station’s acceptance of audio on demand technology. Marketers...

Diane Primo is the CEO of Purpose Brand Agency, an award-winning, Chicago-based public relations, branding and digital marketing firm. She is also the author of ADAPT: Scaling Purpose in a Diversive World. Diane’s focus on impact marketing stems from the belief that brands must be relevant, purpose-driven and committed to consumers to be successful today. Consumers’ demand for meaning, transparenc...

Russ Mitchinson is the founder and CEO of Rebel Angel Strategy, a company offering unified brand thinking and solutions to ensure a brand's media and messaging are working effectively together. He shares his experience working as a strategist in media, creative and digital agencies, and the impact that fragmented agency rosters, briefing processes, and campaign implementation has on marketing effe...

Chris Cheng is the Managing Director of Jetek Asia Digital, a digital marketing company, expert in developing and implementing digital strategies in the Chinese market. Having worked with many major brands across Australia, the US, the UK, and China, Chris shares his thoughts and insights into the opportunities and the best approach for western businesses looking to make in-roads into the Chinese...

James Lawrence is the co-founder and chief marketing officer of Rocket, a leading Australian digital marketing agency. He is also the co-author of the best selling business book, Smarter Marketer. James shares his story from graduating as a lawyer from UTS to co-founding, with his brother David, the web building agency The Web Showroom, which transformed into Rocket in 2017. The book they wrote to...

St John Craner is the Managing Director or Argraian, an indepdent agribusiness that helps rural companies win through proven, effective sales and marketing strategies. St John grew up in the farm land of Essex and started his career at McCann in the UK before finding his way to the other end of the earth. Here, his career has spanned corporate marketing, as well as agency marketing roles. But his...

Jude Leon is Head of Integrated Marketing at Australian Red Cross Lifeblood - charged with driving marketing to ensure that, amongst other things, national blood stocks are maintained. Jude and David discuss the importance of the organisation, brand marketing in a NFP environment, the complexity of marketing ‘blood donation’ through the funnel, the effect of COVID on blood donation, and working in...

Jane Burhop and James Crawley are Creative Directors and co-Founders of Common Ventures, a storytelling and digital communications company celebrating ten years in the industry. They share their experiences of starting a new agency and the lessons they have learned along the way. At the core of Common Ventures has been a philosophy of working with people who share common values (and a love of chee...

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...