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Tiffany Hall
Technology Controller for Nations and Regions
BBC
Andy Townend
Deputy Secretary
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Gerry Gouy
Commercial Director, International Digital Media
MTV Networks International
Michael Anderson
Chief Executive Officer
Austereo
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"The content and networking all worked well. Overall the conference was well organized with strong discussions. The speed networking was fun."
Name: Brett Savill
Company: Broadcast Australia
"The conference was very professionally run and well located. A conducive intimate event for meaningful networking"
Name: Sophie Ford
Company: MitchellLake
"I always think the content is very good. Overall you do a great job of presenting a good conference."
Name: Syd Polley
Company: Bayside Media
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Michael Anderson
Chief Executive Officer
Austereo
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Michael has a distinguished career in radio, spanning more than seventeen years. He joined Austereo in 1990 as Sales Director of FOXFM in Melbourne, moving to Sydney in 1991 to head up the Group’s sales operations.
In the years that followed, Michael took on additional responsibilities in corporate development, focussing on creating new revenues streams for the Group and assisting with Austereo’s acquisitions and operations in offshore markets.
In 2002 he was appointed to the newly created position of Executive Director
Sales Strategy & Operations. Michael was appointed Chief Operating Officer in
May 2003 and Chief Executive Officer in August 2003.
Michael has served on the Austereo Board of Directors since 1996 and is also currently the Chairman of Commercial Radio Australia – the national radio industry body.
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Nathan Anderson
Head of Digital
The Campaign Palace
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Working in the internet for the last 10 years, Nathan has extensive international experience in online media and advertising. He co-founded a dotcom in 1999 that reached a peak of 14m unique users per month with pioneering email and affiliate marketing programs. Since then, Nathan has spent several years abroad including a stint at Tequila / London and is currently heading up a new digital division within legendary Australian advertising agency, The Campaign Palace.
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Magan Arthur
Senior Principal
Infosys
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Magan Arthur is a world leading expert, author, speaker and university lecturer on Digital Content Management. He has led the implementations of large-scale digital asset management systems at Global 1000 companies. As principal media consultant for Infosys, he advises media and entertainment companies around the world on digital strategy and the future of the Digital Media Enterprise. He studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm's University in Bonn, Germany as well as at the Humaniversity in Egmond an Zee, Netherlands.
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Hugh Baldwin
Digital Media Director
Nickelodeon
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Hugh has extensive media experience in online content development, interactive television applications, research, children’s production and journalism. He is responsible for business management and strategic development of Nickelodeon’s digital media activities including online, mobile and itv applications.
Hugh worked with the Seven Network on their enhanced digital channel coverage of the Athens Olympics, the 2005 Australian Tennis Open and the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
Prior to that, Hugh spent three years working as an NRL, Super 12 and NSL accredited journalist. He travelled to Korea and Japan to cover the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Hugh was the editor and online producer for a Sydney-based sports-entertainment company, NextGenSports, overseeing the production and delivery of broadband and narrowband sports content.
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Barrie Barton
Creative Director
Right Angle Media
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Having watched an episode of LA Law at the age of 12, Barrie Barton foolishly told his parents he would be a lawyer, but after a bitter five years of study at ANU in Canberra, Barrie decided law was for dogs. Throwing caution to the wind, Barton entered the marketing and media industry, including stints as Editor of Large Magazine then Australia’s largest free-press title, and National Marketing Manager at Moonlight Cinema – a position Barrie says personified everything he didn’t want out of corporate media and communications culture, kulcha or culture kultur (depending where you went to school).
A brief sabbatical later, Barrie founded established Right Angle Publishing which, via it’s flagship title ThreeThousand.com.au delivers sub-cultural snapshots of Melbourne via email to an audience of inner-urban dwellers. The immediate success of the title led to commissioned work for The City of Melbourne and Tourism Victoria, as well interstate iterations of the publication in Sydney and Brisbane.
Right Angle Publishing now produces seminal ‘underground’ guides to Australia’s largest cities, delivering assiduously researched content across film, art, reading, dancing, drinking, letching, listening and other monkey business. The company’s monthly audience reaches up to 100,000 people, which explains in part why Barton was selected by The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of the city’s top 100 most influential people.
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Matt Bruce
National Sales Director
Nielsen Online
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Matt has almost a decade’s experience in the Digital Industry across the UK, US and Australia. He has held a number of senior positions with large media companies spending most of his time working on strategy and operations. Most recently he was General Manager of homesite.com.au where he grew the business significantly and helped integrate the business into the REA Group following its acquisition of the business in March 2007. Matt is Nielsen Online’s new National Sales Director. He holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and studied Media at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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Axel Bruns
Senior Lecturer, Media & Communications
Queensland University of Technology
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Dr Axel Bruns teaches and conducts research about online publishing, electronic creative writing, online communities, creative industries, and popular music in the Creative Industries Faculty of Queensland University of Techology, Brisbane, Australia.
He is a founding editor of the premier online academic publication M/C - Media and Culture, and of dotlit: The Online Journal of Creative Writing.
His book Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production is forthcoming from Peter Lang, New York, in 2005. It analyses a major new genre of online news, information and discussion Websites including Indymedia, Slashdot, and the growing range of news-related Weblogs and provides a wide, systematic perspective on gatewatching and open news. He is currently editing Uses of Blogs, a scholarly collection of articles on blogs and blogging, with Joanne Jacobs; this book is forthcoming from Peter Lang in 2006.
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Megan Clarken
Managing Director, Pacific
The Nielsen Company
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Megan is based in our Sydney office and returns to the region from her current position as Vice President, Web Analytics and Program Management working out of Nielsen Online’s New York office, where she has been responsible for the strategic direction of the company’s product development and road map.
Megan has extensive experience of the Australian and New Zealand markets, having previously held several senior leadership roles within the region. Megan is a New Zealander and has worked in both the New Zealand and Australian markets, residing in Australia prior to her appointment in New York.
Megan brings more than 20 years of technology, product development and marketing experience to the Pacific business, and in her role as Managing Director, Pacific she will primarily be focused on working closely with the market to support and grow the services that Nielsen Online provides that are so crucial to the ongoing success of the online industry in our region.
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Francisco Cordero
General Manager Australia
Bebo
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With a deep understanding of both traditional and online media environments garnered from the past seventeen years in the industry, Andrew Cordwell is a steady influence in a pivotal role leading the Fox Interactive Media, Australian & New Zealand sales team.
When speaking specifically about MySpace.com, Andrew admits the position of the social networking site has changed, “MySpace is now well and truly top of mind for Australian consumers when they are going online…. as the 4th most popular website Australians from all walks of life are increasingly heading to MySpace.com to discover, be entertained as well as share, connect and communicate with their friends.”
Andrew has grown up in the advertising sales environment through the 1990s, spending the first six years of his career working with suburban newspapers in the Cumberland Newspaper Group, then moving to metropolitan newspapers for four years within the News Limited business, working on The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and The Australian Magazine.
Taking the leap from traditional print media to the digital online environment was an obvious one for Andrew, moving in January 2001 to ninemsn where he worked his way up to become the Group Sales Manager within PBL Media. In 2003 Andrew then moved within the PBL business to take up the Network Sports Executive position at the Nine Network.
Feeling the pull back to the digital space in January 2006, Andrew headed to News Digital, and in March 2007 took up the Director of Sales role at Fox Interactive Media.
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Andrew Cordwell
Director of Sales
Fox Interactive Media and MySpace.com
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With a deep understanding of both traditional and online media environments garnered from the past seventeen years in the industry, Andrew Cordwell is a steady influence in a pivotal role leading the Fox Interactive Media, Australian & New Zealand sales team.
When speaking specifically about MySpace.com, Andrew admits the position of the social networking site has changed, “MySpace is now well and truly top of mind for Australian consumers when they are going online…. as the 4th most popular website Australians from all walks of life are increasingly heading to MySpace.com to discover, be entertained as well as share, connect and communicate with their friends.”
Andrew has grown up in the advertising sales environment through the 1990s, spending the first six years of his career working with suburban newspapers in the Cumberland Newspaper Group, then moving to metropolitan newspapers for four years within the News Limited business, working on The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and The Australian Magazine.
Taking the leap from traditional print media to the digital online environment was an obvious one for Andrew, moving in January 2001 to ninemsn where he worked his way up to become the Group Sales Manager within PBL Media. In 2003 Andrew then moved within the PBL business to take up the Network Sports Executive position at the Nine Network.
Feeling the pull back to the digital space in January 2006, Andrew headed to News Digital, and in March 2007 took up the Director of Sales role at Fox Interactive Media.
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Rachel De Sain
Strategy and Commercial Manager for Mobile
Sensis
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Rachel is responsible for the strategy, product development and commercialisation of Sensis' mobile applications including Yellow™ Mobile, Whereis® Mobile, Citysearch® Mobile, Trading Post® Mobile and Sensis® Mobile. Rachel has more than 10 years experience in the mobile industry, focusing on new media and technology adoption for telcos, advertising agencies and media companies. Prior to joining Sensis earlier this year, Rachel was Director of Mobile for ACP Magazines where she developed opportunities for the mobile business across all ACP brands in the Australian and New Zealand Markets. Rachel previously held senior positions at MTV Networks International based in London, and was instrumental in developing the world’s first made-for-mobile TV channel.
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Paddy Douneen
National Advertising Manager, Fairfax Integrated Solutions
Fairfax Media
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Paddy Douneen has worked in media for 22 years, in the UK, International and Australian markets, holding director level roles for the past 15 years at companies such as MediaStar (now MPG) in London, MediaCom, Universal McCann, IKON Communications, and now Fairfax Media. He has sat on industry committees including the Media Federation, Caxton, and was Australia’s official Cannes Lions representative in 2006 and 2007.
Paddy is holds a Law Degree, an MBA and is a member of both the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Management.
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Gerry Gouy
Commercial Director, International Digital Media
MTV Networks International
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Gerry Gouy is the London-based Commercial Director for MTV Networks International, the world's largest television network and mobile video producer. He is responsible for global deals and partnerships across every country outside the United States, and across every digital platform including online, mobile & IPTV, and across all MTV Networks brands and properties including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, South Park, Pimp My Ride and SpongeBob SquarePants.
Gerry joined the business in December 2006 after six years of driving content partnerships in TV, Music, Sports & Games at 3Mobile in Asia & Europe. Prior to that he worked as General Manager of ZDNet Australia, and held a number of senior roles at AltaVista, Yellow Pages & LookSmart, going back to the dawn of the Web in the mid 1990s.
He has over 12 years' worldwide digital media commercial, marketing and operational experience (including eight years' mobile) and detailed understanding of commercial and partnership models across all major digital platforms for: broadcast media; music industry; mobile operators; online; social networks; device manufacturers; and games vendors.
During his career he has been responsible for digital media content deals in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia & Africa which have grossed over $100 million in direct revenues, partnering with companies such as Universal Music, Apple iTunes, Canal+, SonyBMG, Vodafone, EMI, Sony Pictures, Yahoo, Fox Sports, Warner Music, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Fremantle, Nokia, Sky, Warner Brothers, BBC & Cricket Australia.
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David Higgins
Editor, news.com.au
News Limited
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David Higgins is editor of NEWS.com.au. Mr Higgins joined News Digital Media in March 2007.
Mr Higgins is responsible for leading the NEWS.com.au editorial team to ensure that the site consistently delivers high-quality and ground-breaking news and information that engages audiences.
A Walkely Award finalist in 1997 and 2007, Mr Higgins has a strong background in online media and journalism. Before joining News Digital Media he was editor of smh.com.au. While at Fairfax he worked across a range of IT and business editorial roles and was founding editor of both Biz.com and Radar (Sydney Morning Herald’s youth supplement).
Mr Higgins began his career with News Limited as a reporter for The Australian.
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Robert Leach
Head MCn Connect
MCn
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Having worked in Advertising and Marketing on both the client and agency side for 10 years, Rob joined BSkyB as Client Sales Manager in September 1997.
He became Controller of Interactive Airtime Sales in September 2000, with the responsibility for creating and launching Sky’s ground-breaking interactive TV advertising services. Rob was responsible for assembling an interactive sales team from scratch and developing and implementing pioneering sales, pricing, and marketing strategies for this new service.
Rob was promoted to Head of Interactive Services for Sky Media in August 2003 with the additional remit of developing commercial models across all Sky’s digital media offerings.
In October 2006 Rob joined MCn in Sydney, the multi channel sales house for the Foxtel and Austar subscription TV platforms. He was appointed Head of MCn Connect, the newly formed department responsible for the strategic development and sales of all the new digital media on these platforms, including interactive advertising, online, mobile, VOD and IPTV.
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Pippa Leary
Managing Director Media
Fairfax Digital
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Pippa Leary is the Managing Director of Media for Fairfax Digital.
Fairfax Digital is the interactive division of John Fairfax Holdings – publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review among others titles.
Pippa is responsible for growing revenue and audience usage of The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au) and The Age (theage.com.au), Brisbane Times, Trading Room, Money Manager, Real Footy and Rugby Heaven. Her team works closely with the editorial team to ensure the Fairfax network of news sites remain the #1 online news Network in Australia. Her responsibilities include sales, product management, syndication, business development, multimedia, editorial production, membership, marketing, technology and Sales.
Prior to Fairfax, Pippa worked for NineMSN primarily as the Business Manager of the Lifestyle section, later becoming involved in the E-Commerce and Communications services within NineMSN including Hotmail, Instant Messenger, Search and Community.
Preceding her Media career, Pippa was a freelance journalist; her work appearing in Not Only Black and White, Studio for Men, The Australian and 21*C. She has also lectured and tutored at both Sydney University and the University of New South Wales.
Pippa has an Honours Degree in History (First Class and Medal) from the University of Sydney.
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Ben Liebmann
Vice President, Licensing
Fremantle Media
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FremantleMedia is one of the world's largest international creators and producers of entertainment brands – owned by RTL and forming part of the Bertelsmann Media Group.
As Vice President of Licensing, Ben is responsible for the development and commercialisation of FremantleMedia properties off-screen in areas such as online, interactive television and wireless, as well as more traditional ancillary rights businesses including brand licensing and sponsorship, live entertainment, gaming, consumer products and merchandise.
The FremantleMedia Enterprises portfolio encompasses both wholly owned and managed properties including Australian Idol, Neighbours, The Biggest Loser, Project Runway, Australia’s Got Talent, The Price Is Right, The Farmer Wants A Wife, Australia’s Next Top Model, Star Trek, Hole In The Wall, CSI, So You Think You Can Dance and Merlin.
Prior to joining FremantleMedia, Ben established himself as a leading digital media and content specialist, working with companies including Warner Music Group and Vodafone.
Ben holds a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Marketing and Business Economics from the University of NSW.
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Hugh Martin
GM
APN Online
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As General Manager, APN Online, APN News & Media, Hugh is responsible for all aspects of APN's online business within Australia: digital strategy, product development, operational infrastructure, sales and commercial development. Prior to APN, Martin was editor of NEWS.com.au (News Digital Media), one of Australia's largest news sites. He previously spent five years in senior roles at Fairfax, including editor of theage.com.au, deputy editor of sections at The Age and online editor at Fairfax Business Media.
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Tony McGinn
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
MCM Entertainment
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Tony McGinn founded mcm entertainment in 1983 and has been its Chief Executive Officer since that time. In his 24 years as principal, Tony has built up considerable experience in radio, television and new digital media production and syndication, event management, sponsorship, advertising and marketing, and building and operating multi platform media businesses. He has approximately 20 years international experience and industry knowledge and contacts within the entertainment, production, marketing and media industries. In the last few years, Tony has led the Company's expansion into the new digital media area, with a particular focus on developing and expanding the Company's advertiser funded content onto the online and mobile platforms.
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Subrat Mohanty
Strategic Business Unit Head
Infosys
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Subrat Mohanty’s consulting career spans across areas of business process consulting re-engineering and solution design for customer outsourcing programs, with strong focus on serving Media & Entertainment clients. Subrat holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
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Ed Schmidt
Chief Executive Officer
Whizzm
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Ed began his career in advertising at Ammirati Puris Lintas Amsterdam as an account manager where he created an interest in integrated experiential marketing and multimedia.
After a short stint at the largest regional TV and radio network in The Netherlands running their marketing department, Ed moved back to advertising as Digital account manager and later strategist at PPGH/JWT Amsterdam working with brands like Heineken and BMW winning multiple digital and DM awards.
In 2000, Ed and his family moved to Sydney where he joined a start-up agency as Interactive Strategist winning an Internet award for his first ever campaign, before founding his own media consulting in 2003 focusing on total media strategy and integration.
As a consultant he has worked across agencies, technology companies, advertisers, and media companies in marketing, business development and operational roles across the APAC and Europe with a strong focus on digital media and technology integration.
Ed most recently worked as Director of Operations for Southern Cross View until the recent acquisition by Fairfax when he returned to media consulting, is a judge for the APMA Star Awards and a regular speaker at media industry events.
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Michael Smith
Consumer Group Marketing Director
Optus
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Michael Smith is the Corporate and Group Marketing Director for SingTel Optus Consumer.
In November 2007 Michael increased his responsibility to include looking after the Corporate Marketing Group and the Optus brand.
Michael was appointed to the role of Consumer Group Marketing Director in April 2005, following roles as Director Business Mobile, Group Marketing Manager Small Business and Retail Marketing Manager. In his seven years at Optus Michael has undertaken a number of marketing functions including advertising, channel support, acquisition and retention - and blends these skills into his current role.
In his current role Michael is responsible for the complete marketing function covering all Consumer segment and products. The role involves understanding customer and prospect insights, customer management, designing and scoping products to assist Optus lead in the Australian market, and the promotions attached in all areas.
Prior to joining Optus Michael spent 14 years with Commonwealth Bank of Australia, in a variety of roles including Segment Management, Product Management, Marketing and Business Re-Engineering.
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Robbee Minicola
Client Services & Research Director, Sales
Seven Network
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In her position as CEO of Hybrid TV, the exclusive licensee of TiVo for Australia & New Zealand, Robbee has P&L responsibility for the convergent media arm of the Seven Media Group (SMG).
Leading digital free-to-air television beyond analogue in addition to successfully navigating broadband services and content on the central screen in the home is a critical pathway for SMG. Robbee's 20+ years experience in marketing and strategy at both a consumer and digital level resonates through Hybrid TV making TiVo the first truly convergent media device in Australia.
In her prior role as Client Services & Research Director, Robbee worked closely with the executive to develop and drive new advertising models that maintain broadcast television as a premium mass media to market. Her portfolio included the creation of The Morning Show on Seven and the new branded advertising initiative by SMGRed – TechPower.
Before her appointment as Client Services Director, Robbee was the Head of Interactive Television working in the Digital Division of the network.
Prior to Seven, Robbee was the Director of Marketing for m.Net Corporation a leading Australian mobile enabler. Before joining mNet, she was the Managing Director of a Marketing and Communications firm. She holds an Advanced MBA from Adelaide University and is both a CPM (certified practicing marketer) and a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute. Originally from the US - Robbee holds dual passports in Australia and USA and has resided in Australia for over 22 years.
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Tony Surtees
Chief Executive Office
iPrime
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Internet visionary, Tony Surtees shot to prominence in the 90s as Vice President of Yahoo!’s US e-commerce division.
Tony is the founder and CEO of iPRIME which is the digital arm of Prime Media Group. iPRIME offers regional community-based content for online audiences and innovative technologies to advertisers across multiple media platforms.
Tony is a Board Member of Arasor International Limited, as well as co-founding principal of Santa Clara Group. He was previously a NSW State President for the AMI.
Tony co-authored an e-commerce marketing text with Seth Godin and is a committee member of Stanford Australia Alumni Association.
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Andy Townend
Deputy Secretary
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
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Andy has responsibility for coordinating and overseeing Australia’s transition to digital television. Andy brings a wealth of knowledge to this area particularly from his previous role as the Chief Operating Officer of Digital UK, the body coordinating the switchover in the United Kingdom.
Before taking up his role with Digital UK he was Controller of Distribution at the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he was responsible for ensuring the delivery of all the BBC’s television, radio and interactive services to licence fee payers, developing the BBC’s strategy for switchover and leading the cross industry group that established Digital UK in April 2005. He was a key member of the BBC team which launched Freeview in October 2002 and renegotiated the BBC’s contracts with BSkyB to pave the way for the launch of Freesat. He has chaired The Digital Network, a UK organisation set up to coordinate the Digital Terrestrial Television platform and represented the BBC as a member of Council of the Digital Television Group during the development of the United Kingdom Government’s Digital Television Action Plan.
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Mike Van Niekerk
Editor-in-Chief, theage.com.au and smh.com.au
Fairfax Media
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Before joining The Age in 1996 to edit the newspaper's technology coverage and report on the growth of the internet, Mike van Niekerk was arts editor for The West Australian, where he won the Perth Press Club Prize and several other awards for his feature writing. He migrated to Australia after five years as a reporter and arts critic for three of South Africa's biggest newspapers, having begun his career as the editor of a small country town newspaper near Johannesburg. In 1999 he became editor of The Age Online and in July 2001 was appointed managing editor of the online editions of both The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. In May, 2006, he was named Fairfax Editor-in-Chief, Online, to oversee editorial strategy and development across the company's rapidly expanding online presence. He divides his time between between Fairfax's editorial offices in Sydney and Melbourne and those of its interactive network subsidiary, Fairfax Digital.
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Peter Wiltshire
National Sales Director
Nine Network
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Peter Wiltshire is the Network Sales Director of the Nine Network Australia, based in Sydney.
He joined in May 2006 and is responsible for the performance of the Network Sales team in achieving the revenue objective’s for the Network.
Prior to Nine Peter held the role of Director of Sales at Southern Cross Broadcasting (SCB) from 2001 to 2006. SCB was one of Australia’s leading media companies with a diversity of assets spanning metropolitan radio, metropolitan and regional television and other related businesses. It has since been sold to Macquarie Media.
Peter’s career began with Network Ten Australia in 1989 where he spent 12 years in various sales and management roles in both Adelaide and Melbourne.
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Zac Zavos
CEO
Conversant Media
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Zac Zavos is the co-founder and MD of Conversant Media, publisher of sports opinion website, The Roar (www.theroar.com.au), pop-culture site Lost At E Minor (www.lostateminor.com) and music discovery site, My Secret Playlist (www.mysecretplaylist.com). Conversant Media embraces a hybrid model of user-generated content, combining professional with edited user-generated content. Zac recently also launched RevenueSolved.com - a system which recommends tailored revenue options for online publishers.
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