A conversation with AJ Rollsy. In this episode, I’m joined by AJ Rollsy. AJ is the founder of CORE marketing method and the founder of Healthpoint Research. AJ is an entrepreneur who over the last two decades has helped multinational corporations launch and grow brands, driving multiple billions of dollars in sales across 50+ national markets. AJ recently supported TMW research for a paper on Martech in India providing valuable insights into how the technology community works in one of the large...
Dec 10, 2022•59 min
A conversation with Sabri Suby. In this episode I am joined by Sabri Suby who calls himself the “Lord of the Internet.” He’s the founder of King Kong an Australian based digital advertising agency and the author of “Sell Like Crazy.” King Kong has generated more than $1.3 billion in reported revenue for their clients and is one of the fastest growing agencies in Australia. I have never met anyone that hustles quite as hard as Sabri. In this episode we talk about the grind of digital advertising,...
Dec 03, 2022•1 hr 6 min
A conversation with Tejas Manohar & Michael Katz. In this episode I am joined by Tejas Manohar, the CEO of Hightouch Data and Michael Katz the CEO of mParticle. Over the past few years, a new category of customer data platforms has emerged called reverse ETL - data activation, enrichment, and analytics that runs on data on top of the data warehouse. Championed by Hightouch data and numerous other startups, there has been a growing shift in how tech leaders are thinking about the role of the ...
Nov 19, 2022•57 min
A conversation with Andy McCotter-Bicknell. In this episode I am joined by Andy McCotter-Bicknell, the head of competitive intelligence at Click-Up, content creator and founder of the competitive playbook - an online course that helps companies to build competitor intelligence programs from scratch. We talk about the emerging field of competitive research and strategy in B2B SaaS companies, Andy’s journey building the competitive playbook, the differentiation of Clickup, competing beyond product...
Nov 10, 2022•45 min
A conversation with John James. In this episode I’m joined by John James. John is the host of the Champagne Strategy podcast, marketing, and technology consultant, and startup entrepreneur. John started working for global ad agencies then went client side, to government (B2G), B2B, B2C. Worked at digital agencies in Melbourne for half a decade in account manager roles and sales, he then started his own agency and ran that for 7 years. Then moved to live in San Francisco working as a growth manag...
Oct 31, 2022•45 min
A conversation with Kazuki Ohta & Mike Anderson. In this episode I am joined by Kazuki Ohta (co-founder and CEO of Treasure Data ) and Mike Anderson (the CTO and founder of Tealium ) for a round table discussion to discuss the perspectives on the outlook of the CDP industry, how they're building it and the growing challenges around data, privacy, regulation, and consumer attitudes in the CDP space. We talk about the changing role of the category in the enterprise. Why people are still mystif...
Oct 24, 2022•59 min
A conversation with Neil Halliday Neil Halliday is the event director for APAC at Big Data and AI World , focusing on Data, AI, and Martech. During Neil’s time, he has built the most successful data-focused event and conference series in APAC and an entire ecosystem around data, Martech, CX, digital transformation, AI/ML, diversity & inclusion, to drive business generation opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. Neil has also worked in a number of technology companies and is one of the bes...
Oct 09, 2022•44 min
A conversation with Michael Adams & Melissa McCready. In this episode I’m joined by Michael Adams and Melissa McCready. Michael is the General Manager and Melissa is the content chair at OpsStar s - an online community, media and events company servicing revenue and marketing operations practitioners. Previous to OpsStars, Michael has worked across a number of roles in communications, thought leadership and media for software companies like Cisco. Melissa is the principal at The Growth Ops c...
Sep 09, 2022•46 min
A conversation with Chris Brinkworth & Vishal Repaka. In this episode, I’m joined by Chris Brinkworth and Vishal Repaka from Civic Data. In Australia, Civic Data is helping leading brands to collect, organize, analyze and activate data for Privacy First Marketing and Communications initiatives, in line with current and future Australian Privacy Principles. Chris has spent years working in the bowels of the AdTech industry in the US, which over time saw an increasing need to address the priva...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 31
A conversation with Praveen Das. In this episode, I’m joined by Praveen Das. Praveen is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Factors.ai , a B2B marketing attribution and analytics software company. Praveen has a long history in the analytics space, previously leading product at InMobi , a mobile advertising company. In this discussion, we unpack the technology of marketing attribution including the increasing importance of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the marketing anal...
Aug 29, 2022•57 min
A conversation with Anu Shukla. In this episode, I’m joined by Anu Shukla. Anu is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of high-tech industry experience having created a billion dollars of enterprise value from Martech startups. She is the Founder and CEO of RewardsPay Inc. and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Botco.ai . Formerly, she was the Founder and CEO of Offerpal Media (aka Tapjoy, Inc. which was sold for $400 mm cash in Jan 2022), and she was the Founder and former CEO and Direct...
Aug 17, 2022•56 min
A conversation with Benjamin Shapiro and Phil Gamache. Benjamin is the founder of I Hear Everything and a prolific podcast host who oversees three big tent podcasts; The Martech Podcast, Voices of Search, and the Revenue Generator Podcast along with a number of bespoke audio projects. Benjamin is a media entrepreneur who started his journey with The Martech Podcast and has scaled to more than 2,000 published episodes achieving more than 2 million downloads. Phil is the co-founder of the Humans o...
Jul 28, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 28
A conversation with Darrell Alfonso. Darrell is an award-winning marketer and Martech professional. He has consulted for several Fortune 500 companies including General Electric and Abbott Laboratories and currently leads marketing operations at Amazon Web Services where he helps empower thousands of marketers to build world-class customer experiences. He was named one of the top Martech Marketers to Follow in 2020, won the Fearless Marketer award in 2018, is a 2X Marketo Champion, and is a cert...
Jul 07, 2022•48 min•Ep. 27
A conversation with Cydney Sinclair. Today I’m joined by Cydney Sinclair. Cydney is the creative director at HBO max where she has built and led diverse teams of storytellers and designers to launch the streaming service. Cydney previously served as the Art director for Apple as one of the founding members of the Apple Music Brand and Marketing Design team where she lead global content and marketing initiatives across Apple TV, Apple Books, Podcasts, and Gift Cards including a relaunch of the Ap...
Jun 20, 2022•52 min•Ep. 26
A conversation with Vahe Arabian and Grant Shankster. In this episode, I’m joined by Vahe Arabian and Grant Shankster. Both SEO (search engine optimisation) experts in their own right. Vahe is the founder of the state of digital publishing which is a membership platform and consultancy which helps publishers grow digital media properties. Grant is an SEO and PPC expert at The Various Artists working in a regionally focused agency based in Queensland Australia. Grant has worked across a number of...
Jun 10, 2022•46 min
A conversation with Frans Riemersma. In this episode, I’m joined by Frans Riemersma. He’s the founder of Martech Tribe a Europe-based advisory and research firm that tracks the developments of the marketing technology industry and builds tools for senior leaders to better evaluate and manage their investments. Frans has also contributed to digital transformation training as a lecturer at Nyenrode Business University and spent close to a decade working with BrandMaker, a global marketing operatio...
Apr 28, 2022•33 min
In this episode, I’m joined by Tim Burrowes. He’s the former founder of Mumbrella, one of the most significant media organizations servicing the marketing and media industries in Australia. Tim’s also the founder of the recently launched Unmade, a popular newsletter that explores topics centered on technology and media. It’s based on his first book of the same title, Media Unmade surveying more than a decade of technology disruption in media, publishing and advertising. Tim has a unique perspect...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 23
In this episode, I’m joined by Carlos Doughty. Carlos is the CEO and founder of the Martech Alliance, a global Martech education firm based in the UK. He’s was the 2020 Marketing Technology Business Leader of the Year in the United Kingdom and is an international speaker in the marketing technology industry. The Martech Alliance has trained companies like TikTok, McKinsey, and Facebook in the various disciplines of Martech through their online courses, training events, book clubs, and their onli...
Mar 27, 2022•41 min•Ep. 22
In this episode, I’m joined by Kevin Tate. Kevin is the Chief Revenue Officer of Clearbit, a B2B data enrichment, activation, and intelligence company. Clearbit is an interesting player in the data space in how they collect business data from over 200 sources to create over 350 million business profiles which then sales and marketers can tap into to enrich their existing segmentation and do things like prospecting and lead generation. Clearbit is a data collection company that is evolving into a...
Mar 03, 2022•46 min
In this episode, I’m joined by Scott Brinker. If you’ve been working in Martech for some time, Scott needs no introduction. Affectionately called “the godfather of Martech” Scott has been a pioneer in the Martech industry. Scott currently serves as the VP of platform ecosystem at HubSpot, editor at large at Chiefmartec, holds degrees in computer science at Harvard, and is a Fellow at MIT Sloan. Scott’s also behind the now-famous Martech Landscape supergraphic, a tool that maps and categorizes mo...
Feb 13, 2022•59 min•Ep. 20
In this episode of MSoM, I’m joined by Jon Goh. Jon is a leading Martech practitioner in the APAC region, currently serving as the automation and audience lead for Medibank Australia. Jon’s career as a marketing technology team builder has spanned roles such as leading the Martech function for a number of bluechip companies across the region and guiding the establishment of marketing technology platforms for one of Australia’s largest IT companies. He’s passionate about enabling diverse teams to...
Jan 30, 2022•46 min
In this episode, I’m joined by Preston So, he’s the senior director of product strategy at Oracle, the editor in chief of Tag1 Consulting, the Editor of A List Apart, a regular columnist at CMSWire, and the founder of Decoupled Days. Preston is also an author with two newly released books; Voice Content and Usability and Gatsby: The Definitive Guide. Preston has had a long and storied career working on the bleeding edge of digital and has in recent times been focusing his attention on the opport...
Dec 18, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 18
In this episode of Making Sense of Martech, I’m joined by Mike Rizzo. He's the founder of the online community dedicated to marketing operations - Mo Pros. Mike has a long and interesting career across marketing technology and growth marketing management. Mike recently left his role with Mavenlink overseeing community and loyalty programs to dive into Mo Pros full time as the community has grown significantly over the past four years. We talk about the need for independent online communities tha...
Dec 11, 2021•56 min•Ep. 17
In this episode of Making Sense of Martech, I’m joined by two guests, both in their own right leaders in experimentation. First, we have David Mannheim. He's the Global VP of Conversion Rate Optimisation with Brainlabs UK, and the former founder of a leading optimization firm, User Conversion. Second, we have Oliver Palmer, he’s a senior optimisation consultant and prolific author who’s worked on a number of high-profile brands in the APAC region. Across the digital experimentation industry, the...
Nov 28, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 16
In this episode of Making Sense of Martech, I'm joined by David Finkelstein, the Co-Founder, and CEO of BDEX. David is an internet pioneer, tech entrepreneur, and founder of numerous internet companies dating back to the earliest days of the internet in 1994. He currently serves as the Co-Founder and CEO of BDEX, an Inc 5000 company, the first and the largest consumer data exchange platform in the U.S. David shares his views from a recent report published where BDEX found more than 250 million f...
Nov 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 15
In this episode, I’m joined by Brittany Jezouit, the former editor-in-chief of Better Marketing, an international community publication that features content by and for marketers. Brittany has been working in media for marketers for more than a decade, working in an editorial capacity for SaaS, NFPs, and academia. She’s been supporting marketers around the world with rich and helpful content and giving plenty of feedback and advice to marketers who are publishing daily. Today we discuss the stat...
Oct 30, 2021•41 min•Ep. 14
In this episode, I’m joined by Tessa Court, the CEO of IntelligenceBank , a business process software company servicing marketers across more than 55 countries. Intelligence bank was recently featured in TMW for a research piece on the state of content regulation and the concept of Design and Distribution Obligations. Intelligence Bank is an interesting software company in that it offers a way for marketers to manage all of the complexities of marketing, across digital asset management, aligning...
Oct 23, 2021•59 min•Ep. 13
In this episode of MSoM I’m joined by Jessica Box, the head of growth at Linktree and the managing director at Girls in Tech Australia. Jess has had a long and storied career in the tech and startup space here in Australia, leading to her most recent role managing growth for one of Australia’s fastest-growing tech companies, with over 15 million users. Today we talk about the role of companies like Linktree in the emerging creator economy, how content and media are becoming more diversified acro...
Aug 21, 2021•41 min
In this episode of Making Sense of Martech, I'm joined by Anita Brearton and Sheryl Schultz, the founders of cabinetM, a marketing technology management platform that companies use to manage and report on their technology and technology strategy and LibraryM, a fantastic resource to find the latest research, events and content on Martech. CabinetM is based in the United States, and services more than 800 companies with their platform technology from some of the world’s largest brands to startups...
Aug 01, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 11
In this episode of Making Sense of Martech, I'm joined by Alex Murrell. He's the strategy director at Epoch in the UK. Epoch is a brand agency and he's worked with seven of the 10 top largest FMCG companies and has a unique voice when it comes to understanding the role in which advertising and marketing agencies play in their client's growth, culture and society at large. Alex recently published a paper that was featured in TMW number #30 , titled Adland is an Island . And in it, he unpacks some...
Jul 11, 2021•49 min•Ep. 10
