Mediaweek’s Media Movers charts the biggest people moves in the industry over the past week.
Mamamia has appointed Georgie Nichols as its new chief revenue officer (CRO).
Nichols brings over 25 years of experience to the media group across media, marketing and agency teams, including general manager at Carat and media director at Telstra. Her most recent role was as national sales director at Seven West Media.
Former Nine director of sales for total television, Richard Hunwick is joining TV ad measurement company Adgile as its chief commercial officer. He stepped down from his role at Nine after 14 years with the business.
The general manager of BBC Studios Australia and New Zealand, Fiona Lang, surprised staff at an “all hands” meeting on Tuesday this week.
Lang revealed to colleagues that she would be stepping down and leaving the organisation at the end of September.
In a note later sent to staff, she explained: “This has been an incredibly difficult decision to make, but having led the business through a critical stage in ANZ’s evolution, I feel that the time is right for me to pursue my next career opportunity.”
Fiona Lang
Broadsheet has appointed Paul Bates as its new commercial director. Bates commenced at Broadsheet last week, reporting to managing director Sian Whitaker.
Bates joins Broadsheet from Cartology (Woolworths Group), where he was the general manager of agency and client partnerships. Prior to that, he held senior positions at REA Group, Yahoo7 and Fairfax Media.
Sean La Brooy will return to Australia to join Akcelo as group strategy director after spending the last five years at Droga5 New York in a series of senior strategy roles.
Before joining Droga5, La Brooy spent three years at JWT as a data and insights strategist, working with Simon McCrudden, strategy partner at Akcelo.
Nunn Media has welcomed the appointments of Mitch Hunter and Melissa Galanos to the independent media agency. Hunter joins Nunn Media’s Sydney office as head of strategy and innovation as Galanos steps into the newly created senior account manager.
John Matthews and Annie Griffiths
Foxtel Media has promoted two leaders to its executive team to “enhance its digital and streaming focus.”
Annie Griffiths will become executive director of planning and operations, advertising while John Matthews has been appointed as executive director of advanced advertising – heading a new department created to drive the growth of digital advertising in the streaming age.
Tourism marketing agency Gate 7 has appointed Jade Glashoff as the new director of Brand USA for Australia and New Zealand.
We Are Social has appointed Richard Parker as its chief strategy officer, joining the 60-person Sydney team.
He will contribute to the creative agency’s ongoing investment in its strategic, research and media services for a growing number of clients.
News Corp Australia’s newly formed free news & lifestyle business unit has unveiled its publishing team to spearhead the next stage of growth.
Left to right: Ryan Hedditch, Meagan Gray, Pippa Leary, Nitin Goel, Georgi Pell, Paul Blackburn.
Led by managing director and publisher, Pippa Leary, the free news & lifestyle division encompasses news.com.au, as well as lifestyle sites such as Escape, Taste.com.au and Body+Soul among others.
Nitin Goel, takes on the newly created role of general manager, audience, product and marketing. Ryan Hedditch, has been promoted to general manager of commercial video & audio.
Georgi Pell, has been appointed to the new position of general manager of Client Commercial. Paul Blackburn, takes on the new role of director of commercial data & e-commerce. Meagan Gray, steps into the newly established role of head of commercial product.
The new leadership team comes off the back of News Corp launching its state and communities masthead division in August.
Seven West Media has appointed Jordan King to the new role of digital sales strategy director, effective 4 November.
VMG has promoted Sean McCaull to chief experience officer and appointed Olivier Starck as chief product and solution officer.