Appointments

Melinda Cilento has been announced as the new CEO of CEDA, (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) effective from the 3rd of October 2017.

We meet the freshly minted Executive Director.

Laura McBain, the former CEO of ASX-listed Bellamy’s, is making the shift from baby products to cooking.

Former Pandora boss and self-described disruptor Jane Huxley has just landed a massive new role, as the MD of Spotify Australia NZ.

Heavy weight media agency network, Dentsu Aegis, has appointed Catherine Krantz to the newly created role of head of diversity and inclusion.

She says she couldn’t say no to a startup aiming to inspire one million female entrepreneurs by 2020.

It’s taken a very, very long time (billions of years), but the BBC’s Doctor Who will finally be anchored by a woman, after Jodie Whittaker was announced as the 13th Doctor.

We don’t hear enough positive stories about new mothers being promoted, so we were thrilled to learn that Quinert Rodda & Associates’ newly minted partner Sophie Inwood has recently returned to work following the birth of her twins.

Pauline Vamos has a new CEO gig, after starting with governance research and engagement provider Regnan this week.

The Australia Post board has jumped ahead of other large boards in terms of gender diversity, with a number of appointments at the top seeing it become majority female for the first time.

Alison Kitchen will soon become the first woman to chair a ‘big four’ professional services firm, after being appointed chair of KPMG Australia today.

Congratulations Cassandra Kelly and Helen Thornton, who have today been appointed Chair and Deputy Chair of the Treasury Corporation of Victoria (TCV).