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. 

Ant Hearne

Ant joined Streamotion in September, 2019 as Chief Commerical Officer, bringing with him over 20 years of digital experience across telco, digital media and marketing for large corporates and global tech start-ups.

In his role at Streamotion, Ant leads commercial strategies across Kayo Sports and BINGE, focusing on driving business growth through innovative data driven digital initiatives. 

Prior to joining Streamotion, Ant was Chief Commercial Officer for marketing technology start-up Rokt in New York. During his time at Rokt, he led global Business Development Operations and Marketing among other responsibilities. In this role, Ant gained exposure to the world’s most advanced technology driven performance marketing efforts, helping position the company for growth including a brand re-launch.

Prior to Rokt, Ant spent five years at digital content start-up Outbrain, where he founded the business in Asia as Regional Director before taking on a global role based in New York as VP of Global Marketing. Ant has also spent time with News Corp Australia, where he was Marketing Director of Paid Content, as well as seven years at SingTel Optus in a variety of senior roles.

A grounding in large corporates, combined with recent experience in fast-moving global start-ups, means Ant knows how to help a business scale. As a marketer, he advocates the power of brand and offers modern performance marketing capability and the maturity to lead large teams through rapid change.

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).