Why New Zealand Needs More Marketers as CEOs
Senior marketers are naturally focused on the market and the customer. They have built their careers on putting the customer first, a characteristic that’s critical in the business world today. It’s why marketers make the best CEOs.
Join us for lunch at The Northern Club and hear from four CEOs with marketing backgrounds who will discuss why we need people who understand customers if we are going to get NZ thriving again. Understand the difference marketers bring to the top job.
They will share their experiences of making the shift into the top job, what have been the biggest changes and challenges, and what current marketers need to stop, start and keep doing if they aspire to become CEOs.
Pricing
Members: $129 + GST
Non-members: $169 + GST
Product Details
Date:
13/08/24
Time:
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Event Location:
Auckland
Venue Name:
The Northern Club
Venue Address:
The Northern Club, 19 Princes Street, Auckland
The Think Again event is now SOLD OUT.
To be added to the waitlist, please email events@marketing.org.nz.
The CEO Panel
Your Host & Panel Moderator: Duncan Garner
Podcast Host, MediaWorks
About Duncan
Duncan Garner - Formidable journalist, newshound and now Editor In Chief. After 30 years fronting other people’s brands across TV, radio, and newspapers, Duncan Garner is finally in charge with his LIVE weekday podcast - Duncan Garner: Editor in Chief.
Agnes Naera
CEO, Global Women
Panellist
About Agnes
Agnes Naera, Global Women Chief Executive, leans strongly into amplifying the importance of diversity and inclusion and advancing the aspirations of Māori and Pacific people. She is purposeful in her mentorship of emerging female leaders particularly early career academics and professionals.
Agnes is a trustee for a number of charities with a special interest in unleashing the potential of young people to enable them to ‘be the change they want to see’ in Aotearoa NZ. She brings a wealth of experience from her professional, community roles while drawing from her lived reality of her hapu, iwi Ngāpuhi experience.
Jodi O’Donnell
CEO, TVNZ
Panellist
About Jodi
Jodi O’Donnell is TVNZ’s Chief Executive Officer. She has over 25 years’ experience in the media industry across a range of senior marketing, communications and commercial roles, including most recently as Commercial Director and Chief Revenue Officer for TVNZ.
Jodi is an accomplished leader with a strong track record of driving transformational change, digital innovation and commercial sustainability in the local media sector. A passionate advocate for storytelling and the power of video, Jodi is focused on the transformation of audiences and revenue for a digital-first streaming organisation.
TVNZ is New Zealand’s state-owned, commercially funded broadcaster and streaming business. Each day, TVNZ reaches two million Kiwis through online streaming platform TVNZ+, and broadcast channels TVNZ 1, 2, DUKE. Leading news site 1news.co.nz and socially driven online news brand Re: connect audiences to the important issues throughout the day, however they choose to engage.
Jason Paris
CEO, One New Zealand
Panellist
About Jason
Jason is the CEO of One New Zealand, formerly known as Vodafone New Zealand.
He is a proud New Zealander, family man, and One NZ Warriors supporter with terrible dress sense. He says his love of technology has helped shape his career.
Jason is passionate about enabling a better future for New Zealanders and New Zealand businesses.
Chris Lamers
CEO, MTF Finance
Panellist
About Chris
Chris Lamers is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. He is skilled in Digital Strategy, Marketing Management, Customer Acquisition, Retail, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). He is a strong business development professional with a Graduate Diploma focused on Journalism from University of Canterbury. Chris was previously the Deputy Group CEO and Chief Customer Growth Officer at hummgroup, a finance company that operates across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada.
He has extensive experience delivering a diversified and innovative range of financial consumer finance products. Chris previously held the role of Chief Officer Brand, Innovation and Marketing at New Zealand's largest life insurer, Sovereign.
Chris has been tapping into the potential of MTF Finance as the CEO for the last 2 years. Chris is also a member of the Financial Services Federation Executive Committee.
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