Digital Marketers Australia

Stephen Esketzis is the founder of Australia’s leading digital marketing conference, Digital Marketers Australia and is also the founder of the Media Property Collective, a digital media & publishing company. Stephen’s a serial entrepreneur who has grown multiple online businesses and is a leader in customer acquisition and brand building. He’s led the content marketing team at ClickFunnels and also has an expertise in building sales funnels, paid media and organic traffic across multiple niches.

Omar Zenhom is the co-founder and CEO of WebinarNinja. Founded in 2014, over three million people have attended a webinar on WebinarNinja and was named as one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in 2018. WebinarNinja’s aim is to empower coaches & creators to earn a living sharing what they know.

As Head of Marketing and Partnerships at LegalVision, Anthony leads a team responsible for breaking down barriers to accessible legal services. The firm’s innovative model and digital marketing strategy have transformed how businesses engage lawyers across Australia, the UK and New Zealand. The marketing team’s efforts have been widely recognised, including by SEMRush, the AFR, and the Financial Times. Anthony is recognised as one of Australia’s Top 50 Chief Marketing Officers, having featured on the CMO50 List three years in a row. He was also named winner of the Excellence in Marketing Award at the Australian Business Forum B2B Awards.

Rob is the Global Performance Marketing Lead at Flight Centre Travel Group. He’s been with Flight Centre for 7 years and his experience is across Telco, Retail, Forex & Travel industries. His main focusses are to grow eComm, drive leads to Flight Centre’s expansive store network, and grow the company’s app and subscriber base. Rob’s goal is to grow his global cohort of digital marketers to collaborate, learn and succeed together to lift Flight Centre’s performance marketing across their five markets: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa & the UK.

As one of the longest-tenured members of the StudioHawk family, Lawrence has gone from being a team leader an accomplished Senior SEO Specialist, to now General Manager of StudioHawk Australian. He has proven vital in the journey to grow StudioHawk to what it is today.

Specializing in our enterprise-level campaigns, as General Manager, this responsibility includes reaching out to networks and creating relationships within the community to discuss the methods of StudioHawk. This also involves the sales side of the business, as we have found the best method is to create a foundation of trust and form a solid relationship. Lawrence forms relationships foremost and identifies if the business could leverage SEO services.

Lawrence has been working in search for eight years, having started working with Bing search to improve their algorithm. Starting in the early days of StudioHawk in 2018, he focused on helping SMEs get SEO tactics in place to reach more customers on search engines such as Google. Along the way, he became close friends with Anthony Barone, now General Manager of the UK branch, and couldn’t be prouder to see such a hardworking and honest bloke leading the charge across the pond. Lawrence’s work at StudioHawk has led the business to win multiple awards and speaks on SEO at various events & educational seminars.

Revenue Leak is a real problem. Raoul Doraiswamy is the Founder of Conversionry, a global Conversion Optimisation & Experimentation agency helping global eCommerce & Saas brands stop website revenue leak, extracting millions in more revenue purely from CRO/Experimentation.

Raoul will show you exactly what conversion trends are generating 20-100% gains in today’s recession market that you can apply to your own website.

Raoul is passionate about helping brands build a scalable conversion optimisation machine and making every marketing dollar go 5X more, by making users and evidence the priority and eliminating gut-feel.

With clientele across APAC, Europe, Japan and the US, Conversionry have delivered millions of dollars in increased conversions for brands like Total Tools, Kogan, Ecosa, Australian Unity, SNAP Wireless, Active Adventures and more.

Emma and Carla Papas are founders of MerryBody, this is no ordinary Online Yoga and Pilates platform—it’s a movement, a philosophy, an invitation to embrace oneself, wholly and unapologetically. The MerryBody App and the globally-acclaimed Teacher Training Program are not just tools—they are catalysts for transformation, designed to inspire and ignite. They’ve chosen to break away from the industry mold, sidestepping ‘before and after’ trends to highlight the beauty of the journey, not just the destination. In essence, they’re not just building a business, they’re redefining an industry, one empowered individual at a time.

Emma and Carla Papas are founders of MerryBody, this is no ordinary Online Yoga and Pilates platform—it’s a movement, a philosophy, an invitation to embrace oneself, wholly and unapologetically. The MerryBody App and the globally-acclaimed Teacher Training Program are not just tools—they are catalysts for transformation, designed to inspire and ignite. They’ve chosen to break away from the industry mold, sidestepping ‘before and after’ trends to highlight the beauty of the journey, not just the destination. In essence, they’re not just building a business, they’re redefining an industry, one empowered individual at a time.

Nick Montagu is the founder and director of alphawhale – performance marketing agency. With a rich history in process improvement and data analysis in organisations like Heinz and Apple, Nick is able to quickly interpret data to drive business outcomes in complex organisations. Nick created alphawhale to help organisations to better use their marketing data so they could optimise their growth and minimise their budget wastage. Ultimately to solve one of the most common business challenges – “How do I get more customers?”

Jared Codling is a growth hacker that grew his weight loss company from to $30k/wk revenue from nothing in under 3 months, and also built an email list to over 200k for under 9 cents a lead. He has also growth hacked his way to the #1 article on TechCrunch, and growth hacked almost every major platform on the planet. Jared now teaches other marketers how to growth hack their own business, perform equity deals to earn ownership in other companies; and also continues to grow business he owns or has equity in.

Adam Coward is the Chief Commercial Officer at Muval, a booking platform for moving house taking enquiries from 100,000’s of customers every year. The last 5 years at Muval has seen significant growth bringing all new commercial opportunities as the company continues to scale it’s operations and realise the influence it has during a moment that is upstream to many important life long decisions. Adam’s focus is heavily reliant on data to inform the right partnerships and promotions considering only approx. 10% of Australian’s may be moving house at any one time, so targeting and efficient media is the key to reduce wastage. With over 20 years working in marketing across industries such as fashion, travel, tourism, retail, gambling, FMCG and transport / logistics, Adam’s focus on marketing has continually evolved and believes now more than ever before that understanding customer context is the key to maximising marketing spend.

Will Wang is the founder of Growth Labz. They help businesses implement sales and marketing systems that not only brings them a steady flow of leads, but does so in a way that is cost and time effective. Will is an expert when it comes to LinkedIn outreach and will be sharing exactly how he achieves open rates of 90%+ and consistently books meetings with Fortune 500 level companies for him and his clients.

Georgia is SEO Director at Prosperity Media and has helped leading household brands in Australia across a diverse range of niches including eCommerce, Finance, Health and Publishing. She previously worked at some of the largest comparison sites in Australia such as Finder, Reviews.org and WhistleOut. As an award-winning specialist SEO agency, Prosperity Media is dedicated to helping mid to large businesses in Australia compete online through strategic SEO and content. We strive to get you more traffic, more conversions and rankings and growth you would be happy to talk about.

Dejan Mladenovski is a Programmatic SEO, with a passion for the industry. He has mastered integrating AI into the process in order to scale SEO results. He is currently the Head of Innovation at Localsearch, the largest privately owned digital marketing service in Australia where he sits on the executive leadership team.

Dave Hack and George Brown are the founders of Creator Flow, aiming to make getting user-generated content (UGC) easier than ever before. George’s background in building Washbloc and Dave’s understanding of the struggles faced by freelance creatives have led them to unite their expertise. Together, they help brands connect directly with UGC creators, ensuring a steady supply of engaging content while enabling creators to pursue their passion full-time.

Dave Hack and George Brown are the founders of Creator Flow, aiming to make getting user-generated content (UGC) easier than ever before. George’s background in building Washbloc and Dave’s understanding of the struggles faced by freelance creatives have led them to unite their expertise. Together, they help brands connect directly with UGC creators, ensuring a steady supply of engaging content while enabling creators to pursue their passion full-time.

Satya has spent over a decade in SEO, ranking for terms from “Jupyter notebooks” to “Jupiter wagons”. He’s especially excited about leading SEO strategies for the underdog – early to mid stage startups, and small businesses without tons of resources. His short term goal is to distill complex topics and present them in a way that makes SEO accessible for everybody – similar to Surfer, his employer where he’s responsible for implementing SEO. Founded in 2017, Surfer is one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in Europe and helps website owners, startups and publishers reach wider organic audiences easier than ever before.

Mellonie Francis grew her company from 0 to 7-figures using LinkedIn alone. She used: LinkedIn thought leadership, LinkedIn employee advocacy, LinkedIn outreach (organic), LinkedIn outreach (automatic), LinkedIn paid ads and focused on 1 social media channel so she could really be the best at it. Fast forward to now, she has 1 million in sales pipeline secured quarterly without any effort. As brand value she creates thought leadership content that delivers inbound leads daily. She has 21k followers and growing, and now speaks to the worlds best LinkedIn Gurus weekly on her podcast innovative mind to ensure she’s staying ahead of the curve.

Jonas recently joined Prosperity Media as the Digital PR Director and his main focus is building out the offering. Before joining Prosperity Media, Jonas spent almost a decade in London’s digital PR space working for award-winning independent agency Verve Search. Having fulfilled a multitude of agency roles, from Digital PR Specialist to Managing Director, Jonas has invaluable industry experience and insights to support you as you embark on your digital PR journey.