Communications Council appoints two women board members to address gender shortfall

Tim Burrowes

October 27, 2010 11:32

The Communications Council has added two women to its board after complaints that it was male dominated and Sydney centric.

Melinda Geertz, CEO of Leo Burnett Melbourne and Lindsey Evans, partner at Happy Soldiers in Sydney, have both joined the board.

In May the original board of the Communications Council was unveiled. All 12 members of the board – the first since the merger of the Advertising Federation of Australia, AWARD and the APG – were men.

APMA – the Australasian Promotional Marketing Association has since joined the Comms Council. APMA chairman David Lo, from The Marketing Zoo, has also joined the Comms Council board.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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Sarah L 27 Oct 10

Fantastic! More women brains about the better!

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