The Marketing Commute

In this episode of The Marketing Commute, we are joined in the studio by Mark Sundquist, Founding Partner at marketing insights consultancy Fiftyfive5. Mark is a highly experienced market researcher and leader having built and lead two of Australia's leading insights businesses spanning financial services, telecommunications, B2B, FMCG, tourism, media,  construction & hardware and professional services sectors.

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 returned to Australia from the US eyeing her next career move.

In this episode of The Marketing Commute, we talk to Mat Hayward, Chief Marketing Officer of R.M.Williams. Mat was born in New Zealand before heading across to boarding school in Geelong, then back to study a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Management at The University of Otago. Mat started his career in Singapore with Ericsson and continued this global trend by working in Tokyo, the US, Hong Kong, and now Sydney. Mat has worn many hats during his marketing career - as Vice President of Global Marketing with Quiksilver, Consulting Director at Lane Crawford, the Head of Marketing of Deckers Brands (which has brands like UGG), and has even founded his own consulting business, 'A Gentleman’s Opinion'. Mat has been with R.M.Williams since February of 2017 and this is a great chat as the brand ramps up following the acquisition by Tattarang.

In our second episode for Season 3 we talk to Peter Haydon from Australian Pork. Peter grew up and attended University in the UK, graduating with honours in Business Studies from De Montfort University before joining Kraft Foods in 1989 as part of their graduate program. Peter continued to work in the UK for Premier Foods, Horizon Biscuits and before coming to Australia to work in marketing at Lion Nathan, then headed up marketing at Cerebos, before becoming the General Manager of Marketing at Australian Pork in 2007, and as of March 2020 Peter has been Executive General Manager of Operations.

In this episode of The Marketing Commute, we are joined by Jules Lund. Jules began his career as a TV presenter for the Channel Nine Show Getaway, before moving on to host a suite of TV and Radio shows. In September 2015, Jules launched TR|BE, an influencer marketplace for brands to connect with social media influencers to create campaigns aimed at the influencer's audience. We think Jules enjoyed being the 'guest' for a change. We'll also get the latest thoughts and perspectives on marketing trends in Mitchell's Marketing Minute. 

In this episode of The Marketing Commute, we are joined by Bonita Durand. Bonita has had a hugely successful international career in fashion merchandising and product development. Based in Paris, Bonita is currently the VP of Global Product Direction for fashion giant Lacoste, and before this worked for other global labels including Stella McCartney, Gucci, Lanvin and Prada. Bonita shares a very unique perspective at a time when brands are finding new and innovative ways to reach new audiences. We’ll also get the latest thoughts and perspectives on marketing trends in Mitchell’s Marketing Minute.

Jess Davey has had a highly successful career as an international Marketing heavyweight, working in some of the world's largest marketing and ad agencies in Europe and Asia. Currently based in Singapore, Jess is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at McCann Worldgroup Asia Pacific, and is responsible for the growth in the region. In this episode we very much enjoyed hearing what's happening in Asia - in particular the impact of Coronavirus as China continues to struggle with what is becoming a significant economic inhibitor. For anyone looking for some insights into the Asia Pacific region, this is an episode not to be missed.

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.

Our guest in this episode is Ed Smith. Ed is the General Manager Integrated Marketing EU at Amazon. Prior to moving overseas, Ed worked in Australia, as the executive director of sales and marketing at Foxtel, as well as running his own business and he shares with us some very interesting experiences in between. Ed is also among the 18 marketing leaders, who were chosen to take part in this year’s prestigious fellowship program at The Marketing Academy. We were very lucky to have him in the studio with us for what was a very interesting conversation to see out the first season of The Marketing Commute Podcast.

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.

In this episode of The Marketing Commute we chat to Nicole McMillan. Nicole is the Vice President of Marketing for Mars Wrigley in Africa, the Middle-East, Asia and Australia (AMEA). Nicole is an internationally renowned marketer with almost two decades of experience, eleven of which have been spent at Mars in various senior roles based in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore working on a number of global food and beverage brands under the Mars umbrella, including Snickers, M&M’S, Twix and Skittles. This is a great episode that we're sure you will enjoy.

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.

In this episode of The Marketing Commute we sit down with John Moore. John was most recently the Director of Marketing and Global Head of Customer Lab at Bupa (one of the world's largest health insurance companies). John has also held senior roles in the Banking and Telco space, as well as some time with Australia Post. He's back in Australia now after a number of years abroad and provided us with some very unique insights into marketing in the health and wellbeing space.