This evening The Marketing Academy revealed that marketers from Meat and Livestock Australia, eBay and Kellogg will be joining its 2016 marketing leadership program.
Now in its second year, The Marketing Academy's leadership program received 300 nominations for just 30 slots, which will see up coming marketers undertake bootcamps, mentoring, lunches with CEO’s, executive coaching and a series of lectures over a nine month period.
Marketing Academy founder and CEO Sherilyn Shackell says: “The calibre of applicants has been fantastic. We have a rich mix of the best in client side brands, media owners and creative and media agencies from both Sydney and Melbourne with at least 12 years between the least and most experienced. We believe this diversity in age, background, experience and skill-set enriches the programme for each and every delegate.”
To help the marketers along their journey, the Academy has partnered with 30 executive coaches and over 40 mentors from Australia’s business community including; Andy Lark, CMO for Xero, Marty O’Halloran, DDB group chairman, Andrew Baxter, Publicis CEO, Megan Brownlow, PWC executive director, Philip Lynch, Johnson & Johnson MD, Clive Stiff, Unilever CEO and Matt Tapper, Lion MD global markets.
The program is backed by the likes of Commonwealth Bank, Google, News Corp Australia and Foxtel, with all the sponsors coming back from year one.
Mindshare's Adam Ross, who took part in the program last year says: “When I applied for The Marketing Academy I didn’t really know too much about it, so whilst I really wanted to get onto the program I wasn’t desperate.
“Knowing what I know now though, I really should have been. It is not just something that will propel me forward in my career, but it has been a genuine life-changing experience. It gives you more than you ever thought possible.”
See the full list of participants below:
- Andrew Howie, Group Marketing Manager, Meat Brands
- Brooke Chilcott, Head of Account Management, Naked Communications Sydney
- Burcak Sezer, Marketing Manager, Kimberly-Clark Australia
- Claire Salvetti, Managing Director, One Green Bean
- Claire Tenzer, Group Business Director, WhybinTBWA
- Gabriella Conlon, Head of Consumer Marketing, Google
- Gemma Hunter, Executive Creative Director, MediaCom
- Holly Jonas, Advertising Campaign & Channel Manager, IAG
- Jay Sellick, Head of Strategy, Sports Bet
- Jeci David, Portfolio Marketing Manager, Kellogg Australia
- Jeff Miller, Executive Manager Marketing Credit Cards, Commonwealth Bank
- Kate O'Ryan-Roeder, Chief Client Officer, Mindshare
- Katie Finney, Melbourne Sales Manager, Seven West Media Group
- Lauren Cain, Marketing Manager Bingle, Suncorp Group
- Liz Kaelin, Founder & CEO, You Chews
- Louise Davis, Head of Retention and Loyalty, News Corp Australia
- Michael Kay, Group Director, UMWW Australia
- Nora-Kate O'Connell, Marketing Manager, KFC
- Peter Cerny, Executive Creative Director, ChannelT
- Polly Blenkinship, Head of Acquisition & Customer Marketing Strategy, Foxtel
- Rachel Pullicino, Marketing Director, Edgewell
- Renee Garner, Head of Marketing Planning & Segments, EnergyAustralia
- Sergio Brodsky, Strategy Director, Starcom MediaVest Group
- Simon Davenport, National Advertising Manager, Officeworks
- Stewart Gurney, Head of Strategy, PHD Media
- Terri Martin-Newbould, Client Services Director, Presentation Studio
- Tina Walsberger, Head of Marketing and Customer Services, Sydney Festival
- Todd Pironis, Marketing Manager Orthopaedics, Stryker
- Tracy Hall, Head of Brand & Communications, eBay Inc
- Zoey Saunders, Head of Customer Category, Carlton & United Breweries
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