INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER

Nora Henriksson

Nora Henriksson is the MD of Stockholm and global sports expert at S4 Capital's content practice MediaMonks. In her role, she bridges the gap between two increasingly interconnected industries: sports and modern marketing. Before joining the agency world and later MediaMonks, Nora spent over ten years in sports journalism, where she’s covered numerous leagues and tournaments including the Premier League, Serie A, World Cups and the EURO's, as well as some of the world's strongest football teams (the English National Team and the Swedish National Team).

She’s also quite a formidable athlete herself, making runner-up in the Swedish Championships in both boxing (light welterweight, 1998) and in American Football with the Stockholm Mean Machines in 2017. Now at MediaMonks, Nora is making her most ambitious play yet: activating sports franchises and brands in new ways with the power of digital, and virtualising sports events for a more immersive and interactive spectator experience. 

John Matthews

John Matthews is Director of Media and Partnerships at Streamotion, an Australian digital B2C streaming and technology business. Streamotion is home to the ground-breaking sports streaming service, Kayo Sports and recently launched entertainment streaming service BINGE, as well as operating international streaming services WatchNRL and WatchAFL.

John joined Streamotion in June 2018, initially as Director of Customer Acquisition at Kayo Sports, and has 20 years’ experience in the Digital Marketing industry both domestically and internationally.

Prior to his role with Streamotion, John spent three years as Group Head of Performance and Media at APD in Singapore. In this role he was tasked with building out APD’s Digital Marketing capability across Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia.

Before moving to Singapore, John spent 12 years in Australia building one of the country’s most successful independent Performance Marketing agencies, dgm, with a team of 70 working across SEO, Programmatic, Paid Social, PPC, Affiliate Marketing, Lead Generation and Data & Analytics.

His current role combines two of his passions, sport and marketing, with John responsible for overseeing all Media, Social, Partnerships and Distribution across the Streamotion portfolio of brands.

A Performance Marketer by trade, John is passionate about building great teams, delivering exceptional work and the development of people.

Josie Brown

Josie Brown joined Tennis Australia 2 years ago as Chief Marketing & Insights Officer. Her team’s mission is to “Welcome everyone to tennis in Australia” and she seeks to harness insight together with creativity to create iconic experiences for tennis fans and those who play the game. Prior to joining Tennis Australia, Josie was a digital marketing leader at WPP agency JWT in Asia working on digital innovation and online marketing and prior to that at P&G - Olay, Gillette, Pantene and other brands.

Ashley O’Rourke

Ashley is a sponsorship professional with over 10 years of experience working with a wealth of globally recognised brands, rights holders and talent both in the UK and AUNZ. Ash is responsible for developing the Publicis Sport & Entertainment division within the Groupe, leveraging a team of wide-ranging specialists across the Sydney and Melbourne markets within the Publicis Media Content division.

Dr Constantino Stavros, PhD, FHEA

Dr Stavros is an Associate Professor at RMIT University, a member of their Consumer Wellbeing Research Group, and is one of Australia’s foremost commentators on marketing matters. He has expertise in marketing communication strategy, and in sport marketing, where he considers both the marketing of, and through, sport. A former Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Sport, Business & Management, Dr Stavros has an extensive array of publications in sport marketing, including books and academic articles.

He has worked with numerous organisations in promoting and researching the impact of sport.

Tim Beveridge

Tim is a leading strategic consultant with over 20 years’ experience working at the intersection of marketing and technology. Passionate about driving better customer experiences and stronger business results, Tim joined Silverbullet as GM of Strategic Consulting in August 2019.

Prior to Silverbullet Tim was Chief Strategy, Data, and Insights Officer for Zenith Media Australia (part of Publicis Groupe), where he was instrumental in evolving Zenith's strategic offering by leveraging a variety of data analytics methods and platforms and integrating data science firmly into the centre of Zenith's strategic offering.

A transformational leader holding a raft of executive positions throughout his career including being Strategic Director (APAC) for Oracle Marketing Cloud and Responsys, Tim has worked with many of the largest marketing verticals across Australia and APAC. These include telco (Telstra, Vodafone), banking (ANZ, NAB, CBA), auto (Honda, Mercedes, Mazda), retail (ALDI, Westfield, Wesfarmers Group), airlines (Jetstar/Qantas, Virgin), publishing and classifieds (Sensis, Realestate.com.au).

Liana Dubois

In her current role Liana leads Nine’s marketing solutions division Powered By Nine. Her previous roles include senior sales roles at both Nine and Network Ten where she has held positions including Sydney Sales Director and National Sponsorship and Assets Director. Liana is passionate about the power of creativity, big thinking and big ideas and its ability to both inspire consumers and drive results for brands.

Craig Heydon

Bio coming soon...

Damian Francis

Damian is the head of content at Mumbrella, overseeing all content and editorial within the business. He has worked as a journalist and communications consultant across a number of industries for over 15 years. He has been with Mumbrella for more than three years, initially running event content. Damian was previously print editor of AdNews.

Toby Boon

As the Director of Client Strategy for Powered by Nine, Toby leads a team of creative and curious thinkers who are committed to realising big ideas for brands across Nine's ecosystem of television, radio, print and digital platforms.

Toby trained as an account planner in London, working in both creative and media agencies. He is passionate about developing the next generation of strategists, encouraging "non creatives" to think creatively, and finding new ideas in unexpected places.

Hannah Krijnen

Hannah has been delving into people’s worlds for 15 years, always seeking to understand what drives their behaviour and what is shaping their lives. Where previously she lead the qualitative offer at both Added Value and Fiftyfive5, now as a Director at Fiftyfive5, she uses this knowledge to drive commercial growth strategies for a wide range of clients across Media/ Entertainment, Financial Services, Technology, Telco, Retail and Tertiary Education. She is known by her clients as being a trusted consultant who brings the voice and needs of people to life, guiding the development of brand and comms strategies that make a difference.

Jon Kelly

As the Creative behind several award winning sports campaigns in Australia including Rethink Role Models for Samsung, 'You can't be what you can't see' and '20 Not Out' for CBA, Jon has been the Creative Director at M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment for the last 3 years.

Anne Gruber

Anne is a multiplatform content expert, working at the intersection of the industry’s leading storytellers, sporting bodies, production houses and brands to create content that connects with Australians and ultimately drives revenue for partners.

Since joining the Nine Group 6 years ago, her team’s focus has been to build and deliver effective brand partnerships that harness the true power of when and how consumers access the content they love.

Anne holds a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts and a Master of Business and Commerce from the University of Sydney.