Matthew Lee Sawyer

Matthew Lee Sawyer is an American business and marketing strategist, consultant, and author. Currently, Matthew is managing director of the strategy consulting firm Rocket Market Development that helps companies identify opportunities and gain traction in U.S. markets. In addition, Matthew is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and New York University teaching graduate courses in […]

Tom Wenborn

Tom Wenborn began his creative career as a designer, before becoming a copywriter, then a designer again, then an art director before settling somewhere in-between. He has spent the last decade working at Australia’s top agencies including CHE Proximity and Saatchi & Saatchi, creating some of the country’s most popular and effective campaigns for clients […]

Kate Geraghty

Kate Geraghty is an Australian photojournalist with The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper since 2002. Covering daily news and news feature projects both in Australia and overseas. Her career focus has been on the aftermath of conflicts and the plight of those societies caught in the violence. She has covered the Bali Bombings, the 2003 invasion […]

Martin Karaffa

Martin Karaffa helps brands and organizations harness the power of cultural forces to develop a global strategy.  He’s an independent brand consultant based in Munich, as well as being an Associate Partner at Hofstede Insights in Helsinki, and an Intercultural Communications Consultant with the UN in New York. He’s worked as that rare creature, a […]

Leah Boulton

Leah Boulton was educated at RMIT (Australia) and Harvard (USA). She spent 20+ years as an Art Director in multinational advertising agencies in Australia and the UK. In 2014, Leah founded Pathways Melbourne, providing confidential peer and practical support for people questioning beyond their ultra-Orthodox Jewish world. This prompted a career change and is now […]

Kellie Northwood

Kellie Northwood is the Chief Executive Officer of The Real Media Collective, an industry Association representing the paper, print, mail, publishing and distribution sectors across Australia and New Zealand. She provides expertise across brand, marketing and communications with efficacy strategies of through the line channels, corporate and sustainable branding programs and tactical evaluation modelling. Ms […]

Jess Do

Hi! My name is Jess and I’m a recent Swinburne graduate of Communication Design (Honours). I grew up in Saigon, Vietnam and moved to Australia with my family in 2009. I’m currently an intern and junior designer at The Brownbill Effect!  What made you study Graphic Design? I’ve always had an interest in art ever […]

Jane Chisholm

Not long after finishing secondary school in Brisbane, with ‘Asia on a Shoestring’ as my only guide, I went backpacking along the hippie trail. That’s where I found my love of photography. After Asia, I could not bear to come back to Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland, so in the late 70s, I fled to Melbourne, where I […]

John Brownbill

I was born on the 12th of September 1929 right at the beginning of the Great Depression. As a small boy, I remember seeing many houses around us in Camberwell up for auction because people couldn’t afford to keep them. Dad often explained to me that businesses were closing, there were no jobs and people […]

Tracee Hutchison

Tracee Hutchison is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, arts/media executive, educator and author with over 30 years’ experience at the highest level in Australian and international radio and television. A pioneering Australian radio broadcaster, Tracee’s career began at the ABC’s youth station, TripleJ, where she hosted the first show of the national network. Her high-profile on-air […]