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Matt is responsible for all revenue generated within the Fairfax mastheads including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Financial Review. He leads teams across agency and direct sales, key account management, programmatic trading, brands & audiences, ad tech & operations and the recently formed 50- strong Commercial Innovation division.

Matt’s extensive background as a global marketer, creative agency head and digital publisher uniquely place him to drive results for Fairfax customers. His previous roles include Director of Content Marketing at Cirrus Media Australia and Managing Director within the Publicis Groupe in London.

Andrew Hunter is Facebook’s News Partnerships Lead for Australia and New Zealand. In that role, he is leading Facebook’s growing collaboration with Australia’s news organisations. Andrew began his career as a local news reporter and has worked in newspaper, magazine and digital news rooms. Andrew co-authored the book All Your Friends Like This … which looks at the relationship between the news industry and social networks.

Part of Nic’s role is to help drive Google’s support of innovation in journalism in Australia, including engagement with newsrooms, publishers and industry groups. Prior to this role he worked for 20 years as a journalist at News Corp and CNN including six years as digital editor at The Australian, during which time he was the editorial lead on the creation of News Corp’s first digital paywall in Australia. Nic has also worked for News Corp in New York and Sydney on projects spanning tablet and mobile publishing, metro subscriptions and native advertising. He began his career at The Advertiser in Adelaide and also worked as a reporter at The Australian and The Times of London.

A 20-year veteran of the media in the UK and Australia, Stuart spent the first part of his career as a journalist before moving into digital product development and strategy. In his current role he defines and delivers digital strategy for The Australian and News Prestige Network (Vogue, Vogue Living and GQ), leading a team of 18 ux specialists, engineers, audience experts, product managers and producers. Prior to joining The Australian, he held senior product roles at news.com.au, Business Spectator and ninemsn (now nine.com.au).

Tory is responsible for leading federal politics, business and world coverage across the two capital city mastheads. Prior to her current role she was most recently Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost Australia. She was the driving force in establishing the local editorial presence of the global news and online platform and developed editorial and commercial partnerships across a broad range of sectors. HuffPost Australia operated as a joint venture with Fairfax Media until the local operation was transferred to its US parent in November 2017. Tory has also held senior editor and journalist roles with News Corp Australia for 15 years focused on news and federal politics, including as a political reporter in the Canberra press gallery, Night Editor of The Daily Telegraph, Editor of the opinion website The Punch, and national roles in online publishing and innovation.

A background in print, online and radio journalism with a focus on sport and business, has ensured that Sorrel always places audiences at the centre of business and commercial strategy.

She began working for Conversant Media in 2014 in the Ad Operations and Integration team, quickly demonstrating a skill for bridging the gap between editorial guidelines and commercial partnership requirements.

As the business grew, Sorrel carved out a path in integration and business operations and was chosen by Managing Director Zac Zavos to fill the newly created, Business Manager role, in October 2015.

In 2016, with the business delivering strong financial growth, Sorrel helped take Conversant Media to market with APN News & Media (now HT&E) acquiring the business in October of the same year.

Promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2017, Sorrel took on integration, commercial, corporate governance, reporting and broader business responsibilities, supporting the CEO in the day to day running of the organisation.

After 12 years with the company, CEO Zac Zavos finished up with Conversant Media in April 2018. With his departure, Sorrel was appointed co-leader of the business, alongside co-founder Zolton Zavos.

Jason Scott is CEO of Allure Media, a next generation media company with a diverse portfolio. Allure Media partner with some of the world’s largest and most innovative media companies to create Australian versions of global media and ecommerce brands that people love.

The growing portfolio of partners includes Business Insider, Gizmodo Media Group, Pop Sugar Network, ShopStyle, and the Who What Wear Network. Most recently launching Kin Community Australia, You Tube’s number one video network for women.

During his career, Jason has lived and worked in the United States, Europe, and Asia building teams across a range of businesses, cultures and markets working for global media companies including Havas Media and Microsoft and Fairfax Media.

Tim Burrowes is the Founder and Content Director at Mumbrella. Prior to Mumbrella, he was group editor of Reed Business Information’s Media Group, including editor of B&T. Before coming to Australia, Tim was the launch editor of the Middle Eastern edition of Campain magazine, and in his previous role to that, he was editor of Media Week in the UK. He was twice named the British Society Magazine Editors’ business editor of the year.

Ben May is the Managing Director of The Code Company, an Australian technical agency that specialises in high-end WordPress solutions. The Code Company helps businesses plan, develop, and deploy effective WordPress websites that perform seamlessly.

As a technical founder, Ben works with clients from start to finish with a strategic consulting perspective that comes from being a fellow business owner. He and the team bring collective expertise in all aspects of large-scale enterprise WordPress development projects.

The Code Company works with a wide range of publishers of all different shapes and sizes with different challenges, which results in a unique perspective when it comes to the technical challenges of publishers, and being able to proactively suggest solutions.

Adam oversees Mumbrella’s sponsored features, podcasts and videos as well as contributing editorial.

A diverse career has seen him work as a feature writer, copy editor and news reporter for more than 30 British newspapers and magazines including GQ, Esquire, The Sunday Times, The News of the World, The Sunday Mirror, Gentleman’s Journal, Cosmopolitan and NME. He’s written profiles on England footballer Paul Gascoigne, famed sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and pop star Tinie Tempah.

Commercially, he has written copy for luxury clients such as The Ritz-Carlton hotels, Grenson shoes, Princess Yachts and Mr Porter as well as editing celebrity autobiographies.

A self-taught journalist, he started his career in 2005 leading York Vision to win Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year as editor while being twice nominated for Reporter of the Year.

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.

Lauren was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2018 B&T Women in Media Awards.

Ed has over 25 years’ experience across many types of media including print, outdoor and digital in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Ed was recently appointed CEO of Isentia (ASX:ISD), the market leading media intelligence and insights company across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, Ed was CEO of Yahoo7 where he improved business performance through a range of product, content and cost initiatives. Ed has also held senior roles at Fairfax Media and international outdoor operator, JCDecaux.

A media professional with over 10 years experience in both print and digital journalism, public relations and corporate communications. Passions include technology, travel, business, aviation, cars and motorsports, media, tennis, and family. An enthusiastic and sociable people person with a track record of building and maintaining relationships and strengthening brands.

Nicholas Gray has been CEO of The Australian since 2013 where he leads the commercial development of the masthead and has been responsible for top and bottom line improvements fuelled by digital subscription growth, an expanded focus on digital products, business and lifestyle coverage and successful marketing campaigns including The Australian Business Review and For The Informed Australian. He joined News Corp via the acquisition of Business Spectator, of which he was GM and Publisher.

Before this Nicholas was CFO / Strategy Director and then National Sales Director at ninemsn. Prior to this, Nicholas worked on corporate strategy at Lion Nathan and was an investment banker at Citigroup in London and Tokyo and Macquarie in Sydney.

Nicholas is a Non-Executive Director of Society One and the Community Newspaper Group. He has also previously held non-executive director positions at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), iSelect and 3P Learning (Mathletics).

Nicholas graduated from UNSW in 1997 with a BCom / LLB, and remains involved with the University as a Non-Executive Director of the UNSW Foundation board and Business School Alumni Leader.

Mark’s seen it all. He’s managed teams on five continents in industries directly affected by the digitalisation of information and the rise of social networks, providing him with diverse experience and valuable insight.

As Manager, Content Partnerships, he’s a digital publishing expert. He works closely with publishers around the world to benefit newspapers and magazines through shifting consumption patterns and digitalisation. Most importantly, his experience has given him vision – finding opportunities provided by digital technology instead of seeing them as barriers.

A true globetrotter, Mark is regularly invited to attend publishing conferences and events around the world to help bring newspapers and magazines into the digital age

Rob Gallagher is CEO and Managing Director of Emprise Group Holdings, a content and marketing business built around the self-drive, regional tourism market. Emprise was formed in July 2017 with the merger of Hema Maps and Adventures Group.

Gallagher’s history in the publishing industry started when he joined Bauer Media in 2012. With a fresh perspective on the traditional models, Gallagher could see the changes in publishing happening in front of his eyes without the constraint of historical biases. It was clear that disruption was afoot, but he could see the biggest asset the big players had, being content, was not being harnessed as they searched for the silver bullet to arrest downward trends in ads & circulation. There was an opportunity to flip the model on its head, so Gallagher led the buyout of Adventures.

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”. This, combined with an approach to build solutions, saw the Adventures business reshape its position in the market by building new revenue streams through its events and content agency services. The irony in the model Gallagher’s team had created was the improvement in the core published product, with ad numbers up, circulation up and industry awards recognition of the new strategy.

Within the six months of starting the Adventure’s business, Gallagher and his business partners Matt O’Meara & Sam Hayward started discussions with Hema Maps MD, Rob Boeghiem on strategic partnership opportunities. The more the two businesses worked together, the greater the opportunities they identified and the more logical the merger become.

Gallagher takes on the role of CEO for the new business, born out of two traditional publishing businesses but with a clear strategy in investing in the core assets of the business – content and data. The team will be built out to scale the resources focusing on delivering market leading adventure based content and regional mapping.

When asked around what it is like to be in publishing in the current climate, Gallagher is quick to quip “We are not a publisher, we just happen to publish products. We are not defined by the medium, but we use channels which we see creating impact – and our magazines and books are certainly doing that.”

Judy Sarris has had a long career in the food and wine industry. In 2003, she was appointed editor of Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine –Australasia’s leading publication on the subject.

Before joining Gourmet Traveller WINE, Sarris spent three years as editor of Australian Gourmet Traveller. Prior to this she worked on a range of magazine titles and published and edited a number of books including Australasian Ingredients – a publication that has been translated into numerous languages and has achieved record sales of more than 700,000 copies worldwide – and wrote and edited Banc Book, winner of the silver IACP (Institute of Culinary Professionals) International Award in 2000.

In 2016, Sarris and syndicate bought Gourmet Traveller WINE from Bauer Media. Since becoming and independent, Gourmet Traveller WINE the team has added an international award-winning app and a wine travel site called Winecraft to their portfolio. The company also runs more than 80 events each year for readers and for corporate clients, produces Cellar Press magazine for Vintage Cellars and is in the process of opening their own Events Space and a Wine Bar both connected to their office in Surry Hills.

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.

A background in print, online and radio journalism with a focus on sport and business, has ensured that Sorrel always places audiences at the centre of business and commercial strategy.

She began working for Conversant Media in 2014 in the Ad Operations and Integration team, quickly demonstrating a skill for bridging the gap between editorial guidelines and commercial partnership requirements.

As the business grew, Sorrel carved out a path in integration and business operations and was chosen by Managing Director Zac Zavos to fill the newly created, Business Manager role, in October 2015.

In 2016, with the business delivering strong financial growth, Sorrel helped take Conversant Media to market with APN News & Media (now HT&E) acquiring the business in October of the same year.

Promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2017, Sorrel took on integration, commercial, corporate governance, reporting and broader business responsibilities, supporting the CEO in the day to day running of the organisation.

After 12 years with the company, CEO Zac Zavos finished up with Conversant Media in April 2018. With his departure, Sorrel was appointed co-leader of the business, alongside co-founder Zolton Zavos.

Jason Scott is CEO of Allure Media, a next generation media company with a diverse portfolio. Allure Media partner with some of the world’s largest and most innovative media companies to create Australian versions of global media and ecommerce brands that people love.

The growing portfolio of partners includes Business Insider, Gizmodo Media Group, Pop Sugar Network, ShopStyle, and the Who What Wear Network. Most recently launching Kin Community Australia, You Tube’s number one video network for women.

During his career, Jason has lived and worked in the United States, Europe, and Asia building teams across a range of businesses, cultures and markets working for global media companies including Havas Media and Microsoft and Fairfax Media.

Tim is the Publisher and Co-Founder of Junkee Media, Australia’s leading publisher for young Australians and one of Australia’s most innovative new media companies.

Tim was named #1 on Startup Daily’s Young & Influential list and has been working in the digital space for over a decade, specialising in digital and content strategy, and the growing intersection between brands and consumers.

Tim also sits on the Boards of Hello Sunday Morning, the largest online movement for alcohol change in the world, and the Griffin Theatre Company, Australia’s new writing theatre.

Melissa Overman is general manager of news.com.au and WHIMN (With Her in Mind Network). She is responsible for developing and executing the strategy across content, product and commercial for news.com.au and WHIMN to drive audience growth, innovation and new commercial opportunities.

Highly experienced in digital media Melissa was promoted to this role in June 2018. Prior to this she was general manager of WHIMN for two years where she set up and launched News’ leading women’s network. Before moving to the role at WHIMN she was news.com.au’s group features editor for three years, steering the feature verticals of the brand in an environment of continual change to ensure news.com.au achieved and maintained its leading position. Here she was instrumental in driving Australia’s leading news site to number one.

Melissa began her career in women’s magazines before transitioning early into the digital world helping to grow various online female destinations; and content creation for lifestyle.com.au at Foxtel. She has been a journalist for over 15 years.

News.com.au is Australia’s number one news site. WHIMN consists of Australia’s number one parenting site Kidspot.com.au; leading health and wellbeing site mybodyandsoul.com.au; and whimn.com.au, targeting women as individuals with positive and empowering content.

Josie Tutty is Mumbrella’s deputy editor, formerly opinion and features editor. She’s previously written and edited in the UK for Jungle Creations and Trinity Mirror.

Chris Wirasinha is a co-founder of pop culture and creative jobs website Pedestrian.tv. Chris co-founded Pedestrian when he was 21 and has helped lead it to becoming Australia’s largest youth focused publishing brand. Over the past 14 years Pedestrian has grown from two people working out of a bedroom to a team of 100 superstars across offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Pedestrian.tv has won back-to-back Mumbrella Media Brand of the Year Awards and is Australia’s most successful digital publishing start-up.

Rachel Smith has established a successful freelance career over the past 15 years as a journalist, content creator and copywriter, completing work for a range of clients – from consumer magazines and custom media to a number of major Australian corporates. Her work has appeared in the smh.com.au, marie claire, Good Health, Women’s Fitness, Restaurant & Catering Magazine, Vacations & Travel and Home Beautiful, as well as Village Roadshow, Destination NSW and NAB.

She is also the founder of Rachel’s List, an online freelance community which posts jobs for the media and digital industries, and is also a forum for a wide range of issues within the changing media landscape.

James Chessell is Group Executive Editor – Australian Metro Publishing at Fairfax Media. James leads the editorial teams at capital city mastheads; The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times, Brisbane Times, WAtoday and Life Media.

Prior to his appointment, James was National Editor of The Herald and The Age with responsibility for federal politics, business and world coverage. James began his career as a cadet at The Age before working at The Herald, The Australian and The Australian Financial Review where his roles have included Financial Services Editor, Companies Editor, Business Editor and Europe Correspondent.

James has won the Citi Journalism Award for Excellence and was a Walkley Award finalist for a feature about the problems at Ten Network Holdings. He was also part of the Financial Review team that won a Walkley Award for its coverage of corporate governance failures at retailer David Jones.

Tilly is a PhD Candidate at the UTS Business School researching unpaid internships and employability and a founding member of advocacy body Interns Australia. She has spoken and written about the internship phenomenon extensively, particularly advocating for paid internships and increasing diversity in professional sectors through paid internship programs. She is a seasoned advocate, researcher and public policy specialist who has worked in a variety of political and not-for-profit roles, including most recently as a policy and campaigns adviser at consumer advocacy organisation, CHOICE. Beyond professional life, Tilly also serves as a director of charity Goods for Girls, a Kenyan-based charity that teaches women to sew reusable sanitary pads, distributing them in rural schools and providing women’s health education.

Adam oversees Mumbrella’s sponsored features, podcasts and videos as well as contributing editorial.

A diverse career has seen him work as a feature writer, copy editor and news reporter for more than 30 British newspapers and magazines including GQ, Esquire, The Sunday Times, The News of the World, The Sunday Mirror, Gentleman’s Journal, Cosmopolitan and NME. He’s written profiles on England footballer Paul Gascoigne, famed sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and pop star Tinie Tempah.

Commercially, he has written copy for luxury clients such as The Ritz-Carlton hotels, Grenson shoes, Princess Yachts and Mr Porter as well as editing celebrity autobiographies.

A self-taught journalist, he started his career in 2005 leading York Vision to win Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year as editor while being twice nominated for Reporter of the Year.

James Greet is one of Australia’s most experienced agency change leaders. During the course of his career he has worked with some of the world’s most progressive agencies across both media and creative, where strategic and creative thinking has been the definer and driver of their success.

During his 14 years in Australia, James has held the CEO role at OMD, Mindshare (ANZ, Japan and Korea), and Ikon (ANZ) building a reputation as a pioneer, helping turn under performing companies into both market and global network leaders.

More recently he has worked as a Partner of Cummins&Partners, a successful Australian independent Advertising Agency who wanted to realise the ambition of offering both creative and media under one roof, across both their Melbourne and Sydney offices.

Today he is a Co-founder of CleanThinking, a ‘jedi council’ of comms strategists, designed to help businesses turn media complexity into clarity and advantage. CleanThinking works with a range of businesses including brand marketers, media and entertainment companies and creative agencies.

Victoria Brown is the Marketing Director for Swarovski, a global accessories brand with more than 120 years of rich heritage She leads the local direction for the brand across all of the consumer touchpoints from Media, PR and Channels, to CRM, VM and Events.

Victoria has over 15 years’ experience in Consumer Goods, starting out in a boutique agency in New Zealand working on some of the world’s favourite brands like Air New Zealand and Johnson and Johnson. She has a background in business analytics and has been brand side for the past 10 years with Village Roadshow, BBC and now Swarovski.

Nick is the Chief Partnerships and trading officer at Initiative where he oversees all investment across all media for a diverse mix of clients. Prior to joining Initiative he was national head of trading at News Corp for two and a half years so has seen the publisher business from both sides. Nick is passionate about the ability of data to change the conversation from cost per eyeball to cost per result.

Vivienne Kelly is the editor of Mumbrella. Throughout her career she has worked as a journalist and editor across a number of consumer and B2B finance and real estate titles. She has also spent time in public relations across the health, finance and energy sectors.

Will Everitt has proven success mobilizing innovation and change from blue chips to start-ups with extensive global experience including Auckland, Hong Kong, London and Sydney. This includes rebuilding product and technology teams, adopting Agile enterprise wide and establishing large scale audience product platforms for leading brands such as Lonely Planet, The Times, Stuff.co.nz and South China Morning Post.

Mr Everitt joined Pacific Magazines, publisher of Marie Claire and InStyle as head of product and technology in 2017 to lead technology transformation and product development. He was previously general manager, technology director and chief product officer for Fairfax Media with responsibilities including The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. During his time at Fairfax, his team won prestigious industry awards for new product releases including ‘News site of the Year’ for SMH.com.au and ‘News app of the Year’ for the AFR app.

Founding partner and creative director of Frank Digital, Matt is a strategic and conceptual thinker who has lead top creative teams to financial and creative success. With offices in Sydney and Melbourne, Frank Digital was named by Awwwards as one of the most innovative digital agencies in Australasia and in February this year was acquired by UK listed data marketing agency Jaywing. Its clients include, AMP Capital, Merivale, Bauer Media, Western Sydney University and City of Sydney. 

Rebecca has been a human-centred design practitioner for over 17 years working with organisations of all shapes and sizes from start-ups to corporates including; News Corp Australia, Citroen, Toyota, Virgin, Cadbury and Ikea. Working with UX, design and product teams across News Corp, Rebecca firmly believes that democratising knowledge and empowering individuals to make user-focused decisions is the most effective way to build successful products. Products that address the symbiotic relationship between users and customers alike. When she’s not running usability testing or taking new UX methodologies for a spin, she can be found sharing the love as a UX Instructor at General Assembly.

Todd is General Manager of Commercial and Digital Strategy at the NRL. Since it’s launch in December 2017, Todd has led the commercial program across the new look NRL Digital publishing business. NRL Digital has achieved phenomenal results over the first six months with network audience up 17% year on year and over 2.5m uniques visiting the platform weekly.

Working with product and content teams, he is responsible for the integration of NRL partners into NRL.com and balancing the commercial program with the needs of the fan base and the game. Todd has taken the business from a zero base to a commercially sustainable operation, connecting brands with Rugby League fans and developing effective marketing campaigns across tentpole moments including State of Origin.

Todd and his team have devised a premium publisher strategy focused on content integration, data led one to one personalised communications and an optimised advertising framework.

Justin works with teams to design and build products and services that solve real human needs and transform the world through great design.

Whether it’s a digital product, a physical space or a human interaction, his focus is designing from a bedrock of understanding of the world we’re working in, and the people involved in it.

Over the last 11 years, he’s led internal teams and worked as a consultant for organisations including the ABC, Australian National University, Australia Post, Australian Taxation Office, Tourism Australia, Catholic Community Services, Medibank

Specialities: Service Design, User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Design Research

Paul has been lucky to be on the frontline of the world’s digital transformation as a writer, speaker and consultant helping businesses and communities adapt to a rapidly changing world.

As a freelance writer on digital disruption and technological change, Paul has been a paid contributor to The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, Diginomica, Business Spectator, the Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey, Startup Smart and Communications Day along with being a regular guest on nationally syndicated radio programs.

In his speaking engagements, he’s been Master of Ceremonies for events such as The City of Sydney’s Lets Talk Business program, Small Business September and the Association for Data driven Marketing and Advertising’s (ADMA) Global Forum.

Along with MCing events, he’s presented keynotes, workshops and sat on panels for a wide range of business and community events. He has also provided media training services through Reputation Australia.

Over the past ten years, Paul has been helping organisations with their digital strategies. Clients have ranged from small businesses to Google, Microsoft, Vodafone, Xero, MYOB and various government agencies.

In 2011, publisher John Wiley & Sons released his book “The e-Business Guide: Seven Steps to Online Success” that showed entrepreneurs and small business owners how they could implement a digital strategy in a weekend for under $100. This was his seventh book on technology and business.

Before moving into communications, Paul worked with the NSW state government’s Department of Industry & Investment in developing the Digital Sydney initiative along with the creation of the state’s Digital Economy strategy.

Prior to joining the NSW Government, he founded an IT support business that his team grew into a national organisation that helped thousands of business and home technology users get more value from their computer system. Before that, he was working in construction engineering in Australia, the UK and East Asia.

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.

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.

Annabel Hodges is Audience Development Director at Bauer Media Group Australia, with a remit spanning over 20 brands including luxury titles Elle, Harper’s BAZAAR and Gourmet Traveller as well as the online home of heritage brands such as The Australian Women’s Weekly; Now to Love.

Annabel has worked agency, client and publisher-side for over a decade: from global media agencies to niche affiliate start-ups.

Originally specialising in technical SEO and analytics before broadening her digital skillset, Annabel and her team are connecting the dots across editorial, commercial, product, tech and data to ensure the Bauer titles continue to build on their rapidly growing digital presence.

Michele Levine has been Chief Executive Officer of Roy Morgan Research since 1992.

With over 30 years’ experience as a researcher, Michele has been responsible for thousands of surveys, including some of the largest research projects ever undertaken in Australia, many of which continue to play a crucial role in shaping our society today.

Driven by an insatiable curiosity about people and what makes them tick, as well as a fundamental belief in the empowering value of information, Michele was instrumental in developing Roy Morgan Single Source, the world’s leading consumer study based on over 50,000 interviews a year, and the Roy Morgan Business Survey.

With a passion for Australian culture, education and the arts, Michele was Chair of the Malthouse Theatre Board, where she provided leadership in strategic planning, philanthropy and corporate engagement. She also served on the Australian Made Campaign Board of Directors, where her expertise in buyer behaviour and the Australian marketplace was greatly valued.

A staunch believer in social justice, Michele is an Ambassador for the Menzies School of Health Research, advocating for their work in closing the gap in health and education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

In her roles as Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics at The University of Queensland, and member of the Advisory Board of the Melbourne Business School’s Centre for Business Analytics, Michele strives to connect industry with university research.

Zoe is a journalist currently working at Mumbrella as a reporter. She assists the editors in reporting on news related to the media, publishing and marketing sectors, more specifically media owners.

Zoe has previously covered the advertising agency beat.

She has worked overseas, writing for an international newspaper in Seoul, and did a major in Italian studies at university.

Kerri Elstub is responsible for overseeing the editorial product on all of Nine’s digital properties includingnine.com.au, 9news.com.au, 9honey.com.au and wwos.com.au.

Prior to her current role she was the launch editor of women’s lifestyle network 9Honey and has helped drive a cross platform strategy that has seen 9Honey integrate across television through segments in the afternoon news bulletins and through its own multichannel show Talking Married.

Prior to joining 9Honey, Elstub was an experienced TV producer having held senior roles including Supervising Producer – A Current Affair, Executive Producer of Kerri-Anne, Executive Producer of Weekend Today and Chief of Staff of Today.

Before joining Nine Elstub worked as producer at Radio 2UE.

Myki’s crystal ball was working well in 2003, when he launched Canadian-born VICE Magazine into the Australian market. Operating in only three countries at the time, the underground magazine has since expanded into the world’s leading youth media brand, with a global footprint in 30+ countries across mobile, digital and linear platforms.

As Director, Myki has overseen VICE’s local expansion into Australasia’s most influential youth media company, winning Brand of the Year at the Publish Awards 2017. He orchestrated a defining partnership with SBS to convert free-to-air TV channel SBS2 into SBS VICELAND in November 2016, now featuring VICE’s award-winning programming. He has also developed VICE into Australia’s most awarded in-house branded content studio, working with preeminent brands such as Google, Ebay, Schweppes and Air New Zealand.

Kate Murphy leads NOVA Entertainment’s branded entertainment team, CREATE, which employs over sixty of the industry’s most exciting and diverse talents across multiple disciplines including; content development and production, strategy, sponsorships, design, research and analytics, digital campaign operations and trade marketing.

With over 12 years media experience and as one of the founding members of CREATE, Kate’s expertise is commercial brand integration and strategic partnerships having previously held brand integration and brand experience management roles at NOVA Entertainment, oOh!media and ARN.

Judged the winner of B&T Magazine’s Women in Media 2016 in the sales category, Kate and her team work directly with the NOVA Entertainment sales team and their clients and partners to produce strategic media solutions that connect with audiences, deliver results and grow both broadcast and non-traditional revenue.

Simon Crerar is Editor-in-Chief and GM of BuzzFeed Australia. In his expanded role, Simon is responsible for the overall vision and direction of BuzzFeed Australia, encompassing its editorial output, business partnerships and strategic development. Simon joined BuzzFeed in 2013 to establish the Australian edition of the global tech-powered media company, and has grown the Sydney-based team into a national leader in online news and entertainment content. Prior to BuzzFeed, Simon held roles at The Times and The Sunday Times in London and at News Corporation in Australia. Simon hails from Edinburgh, Scotland, and lives in Sydney with his wife and son.

Josie Tutty is Mumbrella’s deputy editor, formerly opinion and features editor. She’s previously written and edited in the UK for Jungle Creations and Trinity Mirror.