Unilever’s Katz and Wesley Mission’s Mendham join Meet the Marketers lineup
Two further speakers have been added to next week’s Mumbrella Meet The Marketers event in Sydney.
Michelle Katz, media director at Unilever, and Paul Mendham, boss of marketing for Wesley Mission, are to join the panel for the event which takes place next Wednesday January 30 at the Imax Theatre’s Star Room in Darling Harbour.
As Mumbrella has previously announced, also speaking are Helen Kellie, director of marketing at SBS, David Scribner, marketing director at Virgin Mobile and Susan Massasso, regional marketing director for Campbell Arnott’s Asia Pacific.
Katz has been in senior marketing roles at Unilever for more than a decade including brand manager for Dove and marketing director. She was also a senior brand manager for Uncle Tobys.
Before marketing the community work of Wesley Mission, Mendham was global marketing manager for Gloria Jean’s coffees. He also has extensive experience agency side including Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and AdPartners.
Luke Dunkerley of Woolworths, originally announced as panelist, has been forced to withdraw because of another commitment.
The event will mark one of the first public appearances by Kellie since she joined SBS from a senior role at BBC Worldwide.
Scribner has been marketing director at Virgin Mobile since 2011. The brand’s much talked about Doug Pitt promoition was created under his watch. Hus previous experience includes heading mobile marketing for Telstra.
And Massasso has been with Arnott’s for more than a decade and previously spent five years with Unilever.
The format of the evening will see the panel take questions from the audience, moderated by Mumbrella editor Tim Burrowes.
A number of tickets for the event are still available priced at $99.
A further Mumbrella Meet the Marketers session takes place eight days later in Melbourne.
- Details of the Sydney Meet the Marketers event including how to book are available here.
- Details of the Melbourne Meet the Marketers event are available here