The $35,000 Maureen Kerridge Scholarship is now open for mid to senior women leaders in advertising, media, and television.
The scholarship is in celebration and memory of Maureen Kerridge, the first woman to become head of an Australian television network, Seven, and the first female CEO of a free-to-air television network globally.
Applications close June 14.
She died in 2020. She was survived by her husband, investment banker Keith Kerridge.
She was director of sales at Seven when in 2000 she was appointed CEO and managing director of the network, a role she held for three years.
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