Liana Dubois, Director of Powered at Nine. A self-proclaimed Marketing nerd, passionate about big ideas that make advertising famous. Liana is an experienced advertising executive with 20 years of service to this extraordinary industry spanning Radio, Television, Digital and Print. When she’s not supporting the Marketing endeavours of some of Australia’s greatest brands you can find her alongside her beloved husband Max, refereeing the sibling rivalry of two young sons, Marley and Cha Cha.Â
Nicola was promoted to GroupM Chief Investment Officer in 2018 after spending four years at GroupM agency Mindshare as CIO. A highly respected media executive, with extensive experience across all channels and digital integration, she now leads the investment function at the biggest media investment group in Australia and sits on the Senior Leadership Team.
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In 2018, Nicola was named the ninth most powerful woman in media by B&T Magazine, and was shortlisted as Executive Leader of the Year within the Women in Media Awards. Before moving agency side, Nicola spent her career in publishers in both Australia and the UK.
Nathan Hodges has worked with over 150 of the world’s most successful marketing organisations, advising on more than 200 different brands and almost 400 different products. He has solved problems, generated ideas, re-engineered structures and processes and led change for clients as diverse as Coca-Cola, the Ministry of Sound, Australia Post, ANZ Bank, Bankwest, Sony, The Iconic, NAB, Lendlease, the UK Labour Party, Optus, the Federal Government, Telstra and Qantas.
Nathan was the first marketing director of People Telecom and has won awards for his strategic work with some of the most famous and successful advertising agencies in the world, including BBH London and the legendary BMP DDB. His management approach doubled the revenue of the largest account in Australia’s biggest ad agency in just 18 months.
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As TrinityP3’s Managing Director, for the last ten years Nathan has applied his experience to the specific challenges of marketing structure and process, roster management, team dynamics and behavioural change. He is a highly experienced facilitator and conference leader.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in December 2008. He is also the creator of Asia Pacific’s largest marketing conference, Mumbrella360. Under Tim’s editorship, Mumbrella was named website of the year at the Publishers Australia Awards in 2011 and 2012.
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Tim was named Publishers Australia’s B2B Journalist of the year in 2013 and shortlisted as Kennedy Awards columnist of the year in 2014. He was twice named the British Society of Magazine Editors’ business editor of the year. He is an experienced awards juror including the PANPA Newspaper of the year Awards, the Australian Multicultural Marketing Awards and the Magazine Excellence Awards.
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Tim has spoken or moderated at events around the world including across Australia, London, Beijing, Singapore, New York, Hong Kong, Auckland and Dubai.
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Tim has also edited B&T magazine in Australia, the Middle East edition of Campaign magazine in Dubai and Media Week in London. His first editorship was the weekly magazine Hospital Doctor.
Adam Ferrier is a consumer psychologist, and champion of the intersection of ideas and marketing sciences. Adam is the co-founder of Thinkerbell an agency that fuses together marketing sciences and hard-core creativity – or as they like to put it – ‘Measured Magic’ (Thinkerbell is the current 2018 Adnews' Creative Agency of the Year). Adam has also co-founded two conferences; s p a c e, a boho corporate conference festival type thing that is embracing creativity and ideas to lift Australia's ambition, and MSIX Marketing sciences Ideas Xchange. Adam is also the author of 'The Advertising Effect: How to change behaviour, (Oxford (2014), now available in 3 languages), sits on the boards of Tribe and Good Thnx (a social influence and social giving company respectively), and PIJI (the public interest journalism initiaiive). Â
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In more random news Adam is a weekly guest on Australian national TV shows Sunrise and Your Money, and regular panellist on others such as Gruen and The Project, and many many years ago was the state under 12 Chess Champion of Western Australia (still the coolest thing on his bio).
Stephen immersed himself into the field of media technology at a time when the early disruptions of the industry served as a preview of what was to come. His journey through technology and the media industry ranges from Software Development to Solutions Architecture, Project and Program Management through to Sales Leadership and eventually to the perfect blend of all his passions: Enterprise Technology Solutions Leadership. He has led local and global teams to deliver outstanding technology solutions for blue chip companies such as Sky UK, Discovery Communications, ESPN, Showtime, TVNZ and most recently Nine. Stephen has led organisational transformations that not only changed the way organisations work internally but also effected change at an industry level. He is passionate about team work and believes that diversity in teams is a key requirement for true technological innovation. Stephen has a double major from the University of Sheffield in Business and Engineering – with dual honours.
After six months of a media degree, Matt realised pretty quickly he wasn’t cut out for semiotic analyses of car ads, and dropped out to pursue his passion in the financially rewarding world of community and subsidised theatre.
He later sold out (not for the last time in his career) to work on the London production of Jersey Boys. Three years of clicking, stomping and paying actors to sing falsetto was enough to push him into the booming world of online mattress sales.
At Koala, Matt has been able to challenge status quo advertising; battling big brand budgets with left-field creative executions and amplifying them online.
Juliette is Senior Vice President across Asia Pacific for Telaria, managing teams in Singapore, Malaysia, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland. She has worked in media for 18 years in the UK and Australia, specialising in video for the past 13. Telaria is the leading Video Management Platform, supporting premium publishers who monetise their supply amongst programmatic and/or direct buyers. Telaria places transparency, data and analytics at the heart of the business, and counts the likes of Nine Entertainment, Seven West Media, Network Ten, SBS, Multi Channel Network, News Corp, TVNZ, Mediaworks and FPT amongst the long list of local publisher partners.
