Marina Go is Chair of the Wests Tigers NRL Club, Chair of Office Brands, a non-executive director of Autosports Group and author of the business book for women, Break Through: 20 Success Strategies for Female Leaders. She was previously GM of Hearst Australia at Bauer Media.

Boss magazine named her as one of 20 True Leaders of 2016.

Marina has over 25 years of leadership experience in the media industry, having started her career as a journalist. She was appointed Editor of Dolly magazine at the age of 23, before spending the next decade editing a number of leading women;s magazines. She has held senior leadership roles at Fairfax, Pacific, Emap, Bauer and Private Media, where she was CEO and founder of the career website Women’s Agenda.

She is a director of digital startup Daily Siren, and also a member of the Advisory Boards of the Walkley Foundation, The Australian Republican Movement and Women’s Agenda. She is a former director of Netball Australia, Odyssey House, Sydney Symphony Vanguard and The Apparel Group.

She lectures on digital media at the University of Technology, Sydney, is a Mentor with the Women In Media and NRL Women programs and a UNSW Alumni Leader and Ambassador.

She has an MBA from The Australian Graduate School of Management, a BA (Mass Communications) from Macquarie University and is a member of the AICD.

She is a mother of two young men and passionate about diversity and equality.

Gereurd is the Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Magazines, the multi-media and publishing arm of Australia’s largest and best-performing integrated media group, Seven West Media.

He leads a portfolio of the country’s most influential, iconic and powerful cross-platform brands including Better Homes & Gardens, marie claire, New Idea, InStyle, Women’s Health and Men’s Health.

Gereurd has more than two decades of experience across all facets of the media industry, having held positions at Guardian News & Media, ACP (now Bauer Media) and Pacific across editorial, commercial, publishing and general management.

He is also the Chairman of Australia’s industry body for magazine publishers, Magazine Networks.

Lauren Quaintance is Co-Founder of Storyation – an award-winning content marketing agency that counts Tourism New Zealand, Mercer and Bupa among its clients.

She was named one of the top 15 women in the world in content marketing by the editor of Chief Content Officer magazine, and has been a keynote speaker in Singapore, India and Australia. 



A former journalist and senior executive at Fairfax Media she has a Master’s from Columbia University in New York and was awarded a fellowship at Oxford University in the UK.

Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Collective Hub. She launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013 with no experience in an industry that people said was either dead or dying. Collective Hub grew into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and education – all of which serve to ignite human potential. In April this year she courageously decided to break it all and do the ultimate pivot.

Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. Lisa’s experience in publishing has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 24 herself.

Most notably, Lisa chartered her ride to success with her bestselling book Daring & Disruptive: Unleashing the Entrepreneur and its sequels Life & Love: Creating the Dream, which reached number-one on Booktopia; Money & Mindfulness: Living in Abundance, that shot to bestselling status within the first month; Breakups & Breakthroughs: Turning an Ending Into a New Beginning and Purpose soon followed.

Her passion is to challenge individuals and corporations to get out of their comfort zones, find their purpose, change the way they think, and to prove there’s more than one way to do anything. She encourages creativity, innovation, an entrepreneurial spirit and lives life to the absolute max. Most mornings she wakes up and pinches herself at how incredible her life is, but is also acutely aware and honest about life’s bumps and tumbles along the way.

With fans including Sir Richard Branson, New York Times best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and a loyal fan base, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of like-minded people who want to change the world.

As Editor-in-Chief of Qantas magazine and Travel Insider, Kirsten Galliott is responsible for all content across Qantas’s platforms. In addition to the monthly magazine and inspiration website, she oversees QantasLink’s regional title, Spirit, two Chinese editions a year, social media and video content.

In 2017 and 2016, she was named Editor of the Year at Mumbrella’s Publish Awards. A journalist for more than 20 years, she has been the editor of InStyle and B magazines for Pacific Magazines and the(sydney)magazine and Sunday Life for Fairfax Media. She has also been the fashion editor for Sunrise on the Seven Network, consulted to the SBS television program TwentyFourSeven for Hal McElroy Media and been a regular reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide.

She is an ambassador for Dress For Success Sydney, which empowers women to achieve financial independence.

Rob Gallagher is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Adventures Group Holdings, a content and marketing business specialising in the self-drive, regional tourism market. Adventures was born out of a management buyout from Bauer Media in December 2016 which included a range of adventure focused brands.

A relative newcomer to publishing, having joined Bauer in 2012, Gallagher could see the changes in publishing happening in front of his eyes without the constraint of historical norms. It was clear that the traditional way of doing things was challenged, and not just the print disruption, and that there was an opportunity to flip the model on its head. Hence Adventures.

Gallagher identified the biggest asset Adventures had was its content, complemented by its proprietary technology platform, strong brands and its relationships with the market. A shift to a content first business re-framed the way the business operated – no longer was the printed product the most important thing as it was in a “publishing paradigm”.

In its first 6 months of operation, Adventures has been able to successfully relaunch two of its key brands CAMPER & Outdoor, developed a significant content marketing client portfolio and grown its digital network by almost 50%.

With a background in sports marketing and wagering, Gallagher has always operated in dynamic, entrepreneurial environments where data insights and technology innovation have been critical in success.

Mal Dale joined The Readership Works in 2011 as the inaugural General Manager. He has over 20 years’ experience in media, at both the agency and publisher side. He is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the industry cross-platform audience metric emma, managing the research providers and various stakeholders.

Among his previous roles, Mal was Managing Partner at Mitchell and Partners and Head of Digital at MediaCom Australia.

Chris is Managing Director of Nunn Media in Sydney. Nunn Media is Australia’s largest independent media agency with more than 40 staff and in excess of $200m of billings across its Sydney and Melbourne offices.

Chris has almost 25 years experience in media and data analytics. Prior to launching Nunn Media in Sydney in 2014 Chris was Principal of data analytics consultancy Quantium. Previous media agency experience includes being CEO of Mindshare in Australia and before that China where he spent nearly a decade of his career.

Chris began his agency career in full-service agencies, having worked for Saatchi & Saatchi London and JWT Shanghai.

Andrew Beecher is the CEO & Managing Director of CarAdvice.com, Australia’s leading independent publisher of premium automotive content.

Since joining CarAdvice in 2013, Andrew has been instrumental in leading the company to increase sales, drive profitability and evolve its editorial and business strategy to the changing publisher landscape.

In 2016, Andrew spearheaded the successful sale of CarAdvice.com to the Nine Entertainment Company for a reported valuation of $35million.

Prior to joining CarAdvice, Andrew ran digital marketing, e-commerce and media divisions for IPMG, Sensis, TradingPost.com.au, Adslot Limited and Carsales.com Limited.

With a passion for both cars and content, Andrew is an outspoken advocate for premium publishers and the value of independent editorial in the automotive industry.