In this episode of The Marketing Commute, we are joined in the studio by Naomi Simson. Naomi is the founder of RedBalloon and co-founder of Big Red Group. She is also very well-known (and revered) for her spot as judge and investor on the ultimate “pitch-fest'' that is the Shark Tank TV show. Naomi is not just a consummate marketer - having worked at Ansett, KPMG, Apple and IBM - she is also a very successful entrepreneur, author, and as we find out in this episode, a very accomplished artist ..read more

In this episode of The Marketing Commute, we have a great chat with Jackie Lee-Joe who until recently was the CMO of Netflix. Jackie has had a diverse and very global career in marketing starting here in Sydney at UNSW, then continuing in Europe, the UK and the USA. Jackie kick-started her career with Ansett Australia before moving to Europe with Orange as their Global Head of Brand Experience. Since then, Jackie has worked with Virgin Mobile as the GM of Brand and Acquisition, Skype as the Global Director of Audience Marketing, and then on to CMO of BBC Studios in London. She recently returne ..read more

In this episode of The Marketing Commute, we are very excited to welcome Melissa Sherry, leader of ANZ Marketing for Henkel's Laundry and Home Care Division. Melissa graduated from the University of Western Sydney with a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Marketing. Her career began in Sydney with Arnott's as their in-store Marketing Manager, before having roles with Energizer, GSK and Nestle. Melissa moved to Singapore with Nestle as a Portfolio Marketing Manager for Purina Petcare across Asia, Oceania and Africa. Melissa has since moved back home to Sydney to be in her current position with He ..read more

In this episode of The Marketing Commute we are joined in the studio by Stuart Gregor. Stu is a 20 year veteran of the drinks business and around the same vintage in the world of lifestyle PR and events. Stuart is a Co-founder of Four Pillars Gin, as well as one of Australia's leading PR agencies Liquid Ideas. The boutique liquor market has come on in leaps and bounds in the past decade and Four Pillars Gin is no exception recently being awarded International Gin Producer of the Year at the 50th Annual International Wine and Spirits Competition in London. It's a great chat with Stu which we kn ..read more

In this special episode of The Marketing Commute we discuss the challenges and opportunities for brands as COVID-19 sweeps across the world. Who's leaning into the pandemic and who is struggling? What could be the 'new normal' of marketing on the other side of this crisis? We break some of these key points down ..read more

The Marketing Commute hosts take a look at and discuss the top Christmas campaigns from around the world including incredible work from John Lewis and Waitrose, Sainsburys, Apple, Aldi Australia, and Facebook. Merry Christmas to all our listeners. We look forward to Season 2 in 2020 ..read more

In this episode of The Marketing Commute, we catch up with Paula Bloodworth. Paula is the Global Group Strategy Director for Nike at Wieden + Kennedy. Paula is newly based at the W+K Portland head office and heads up strategy for Nike globally. She is a fantastic Australian talent with an incredible career journey, which we are sure you will enjoy listening to her talk about ..read more

In this episode of The Marketing Commute we sit down with Geoff Hoffmann. Geoff is the Global Chief Revenue Officer and CEO of Adstream North America, (the world’s leading advertising digital asset management, workflow and distribution company). Before joining Adstream in 2014, Geoff worked for 21 years at Sensis across a number of sales orientated roles including General Manager of Sales for Yellow Pages. During his career he has been involved in all kinds of transformations in the adtech space, and we really enjoyed out chat with him in this episode ..read more

In this episode of The Marketing Commute we sit down with Michelle Hutton. Michelle until recently was Managing Director of Global Client Strategy at Edelman based in the UK and has recently returned home to take up the role of CEO of Edelman Australia and their Chief Growth Officer in the Asia Pacific region. She was also the President of the PR jury at this year's Cannes Lions. We were very lucky to have her in the studio with us for this episode and we hope you enjoy listening  to her journey ..read more

In this episode of The Marketing Commute we sit down with Rachel Stocks. Rachel is the Executive VP Global Premium Products and Benefits at American Express. Rachel’s path to this very prestigious role starts in Australia at Macquarie University, and then The University of Sydney, before taking an entry level marketing role at American Express some 26 years ago. Since then she has skyrocketed through the company, driving changes in the business as an official ambassador for gender pay equality ..read more