Mediaweek’s Media Movers charts the biggest people moves in the industry over the past week.
Nine Entertainment chief executive Mike Sneesby will step down on 30 September 2024.
A statement released by Nine on Thursday morning stated that Sneesby and the Board “consider now is the right time for a transition of leadership to take Nine into the next phase of its strategic transformation” following the completion of the Olympics and the Paralympics.”
Matt Stanton, chief finance and strategy officer, has been appointed as acting chief executive officer with effect from 1 October 2024, as the company undertakes a recruitment process to identify a new chief executive officer.
Matt Stanton
Adam Williscroft is about to leave the SCA building at World Square. He is stepping down from his role as music content director – audio on demand & digital radio.
The move comes at a time when a number of people are leaving all media company’s and SCA hasn’t been immune to change.
OMG Australia (OMG) has appointed Kim Hamilton to the newly created role of chief marketing officer.
Although OMG opted for an internal candidate, it is believed Hamilton impressed the judges despite the final candidates including some talented outsiders with impressive credentials.
Little Black Book has appointed Brittney Rigby to the newly-created position of managing editor AUNZ.
Rigby has held senior leadership roles across both newsrooms and creative agencies including editor at Mediaweek and head of communications at DDB Group Australia. She is also qualified as a lawyer.
The Seven Network has appointed Peter Charles to the new role of managing director, Victoria, effective immediately.
In his new role, Charles will work closely with the Seven Melbourne senior leadership team. He retains his position as Victorian sales director and head of national independent agencies and direct.
Peter Charles
QMS has appointed Michael Whiteside as national sales director – advanced trading, effective 7 October.
Whiteside joins QMS from Kinesso (part of IPG), where he was chief media activations officer leading teams across digital, tech and data services.
PHD has appointed Eileen Ooi as CEO, Asia Pacific.
She brings over 19 years of industry experience to the role, and was most recently CEO at OMG Malaysia. Before that, she spent four years with PHD Malaysia as its managing director.
Yahoo has appointed Valeri Liborski as chief technology officer (CTO) to lead the company’s global engineering team and focus on innovation while advancing its investments in artificial intelligence.
Liborski brings over two decades of experience and leadership, hailing from Microsoft, Amazon, and most recently HelloFresh where he served as CTO.
Paper Moose has welcomed four new hires to its team following pitch wins.
Annabelle Rogers joins the team as strategy director and Claire Sutton joins as creative lead.
Niranjana Muraleedharan assumes the role of performance and social media director, as Brigitte Harbrow joins the accounts team as a senior account director.
Hatched has welcomed the appointments of Juliana Yeoh and Emily Hall as client partners.
Yeoh joins the independent agency from Initiative where she spent six years, most recently as group business director following stints at Carat and Starcom.
Hall joins from Spark Foundry where she was a group client partner. She previously spent four years at the London office of the business, preceded by seven years at Initiative where she began her media career.
VMG has promoted Sean McCaull to chief experience officer and appointed Olivier Starck as chief product and solution officer.
These strategic leadership changes to the media company aim to enhance client and employee experiences while driving innovation across its range of brands.