Vanessa, our new communications director, is a media veteran, having worked in the industry in Sydney and Melbourne for the better part of 16 years

In that time she’s worked across a wide range of brands in a wide range of categories. These include international and local big names like Universal Music, SEEK, Wotif, The Samsonite Group, Vileda, Nutribullet and Cake Boss Baking.

Vanessa has a 2 year old daughter, a 10 year old Labrador and a husband of indeterminate age. She loves exploring, keeping fit, decorating cakes and occasionally imbibing the finest wine our region has to offer.

As well as a media veteran Vanessa is also a Celine Dion concert veteran having seen the songstress in Las Vegas twice. I really don’t know if Hatched heart can go on Vanessa.

Rowena is an individual and, at Hatched, we love to work with individuals. We like untraditional people. Those that have had careers in other fields and had true life experience. Rowena’s definitely one of those.

Which is not to say she has just entered the media game. She’s 16 years deep having spent some of that time working in the Philippines on their number one retail brand. She’s also worked on massive global brands like Uniqlo and Forever21 and worked with regional clients such as Samsung Electronics and FedEx. 

Part way into her media career Rowena took a hiatus to obtain her nursing license. After completing her course, she went back to media. Needless to say, if anyone ever takes a spill after Friday drinks we’re calling Rowena.

Regan Hancock, our Digital Manager, considers himself our ‘Galactic Head of Digital’ so we’re going to call him Raygun instead of Regan from this moment on.

Raygun has 4 years experience in the media game and, in that time, has worked for some seriously big brands like BMW, Coles, Energy Australia, Twinings and Asahi. Working on both tea and beer ensures he’s as fun after five as he is productive before it.

In his spare time Raygun enjoys playing music, going to the gym, reading comics and playing video games. He also occasionally hosts a podcast, because a good media mind sometimes creates their own media!

Georgie is one passionate Hatchling.  With only a couple of years in media under her belt, she has already worked on campaigns that she can be proud of.  A true romantic at heart, Georgie loves to read and spend time overlooking the prom at her family holiday home in Gippsland.

Our new search coordinator grew up in Fremantle supporting the Dockers. Now she lives in Melbourne yet still supports the Dockers.

This loyalty, while somewhat misplaced, is admirable.

Hatched is Tora’s first foray into media. She studied at Melbourne University and has worked for brands such as Telstra and Nintendo. At Hatched she works on campaigns for Autobarn, Satterly and ID Land among others.

An expert in the art of advanced relaxation Tora enjoys binge watching reality TV and sleeping.

Emily, our new hatchling, is big on media experience. In her five plus years in the game she’s worked for big retailers like Bunnings and JB Hi Fi, big food manufacturers like Simplot and big toy distributors like Big Balloon.

Emily’s also got a big heart, as evidenced by her work for Oxfam and her adoption of a rescue dog Shadow, a beautiful Kelpie cross Heeler.

A spontaneous soul Emily and her husband got married at their engagement party. We don’t know if Shadow played a role!

Our new hatchling Belinda has just graduated from RMIT where she also volunteered at SYN FM as a Co-Exec Producer for their breakfast radio program. Working on student radio means you have to deal with no budgets, tardy talent and a fluid timing schedule. As such it is perhaps the best training for a job at Hatched!

In her spare time Belinda likes to draw and paint. She also spends time hiking and looking for interesting things like caves and waterfalls. She is contemplating rollerblading, though it is completely incompatible with her two existing hobbies.

As this is Belinda’s first job in media we’re encouraging the ‘explorer’ in her, showing her all the different aspects to see where she feels most comfortable.

A famous admiral once said ‘always make your bed and no matter how your day goes, you’ll come home to a made bed’. Marli listened to that sage bit of wisdom and now cannot leave the house unless her bed is made.

Marli’s been in the media game for 8+ years and started her career at a Multi Channel Network working on brands such as Hungry Jack’s, Jetstar, Suzuki, Target and Jeep. After taking a year off to travel she found herself working agency side across brands like American Tourister, Lifestyle Communities, Luna Park Melbourne and St John Ambulance.

Outside of work Marli has the most healthy and wholesome hobbies that the media industry has ever seen. She enjoys going for long walks in nature, playing with her two rescue huskies, watching cooking shows and experimenting with healthy sweet bake treats.

And because it takes all types Marli would also like it to be known that “Creating schedules and procedures gives me immense joy and satisfaction”. Yes that is a legit quote. Don’t bother reading it twice because I’ve already done that.

The founder and fearless leader of Hatched is the man responsible for putting entrepreneurialism back into media.  And he’s a lot more than hard to pronounce eight syllable words. Jack is an anti jargon as they come. While he knows his ROIs from his CRMs he also knows the thing clients want most from their media agency is transparency and great service. And that is what Hatched delivers in spades.

Our new account director Leanne Waters, has worked for 12 years in media and in that time has worked on an impressive list of clients that include STA Travel, Melbourne’s GPO, G Adventures, Carsales.com.au, Caradvice.com.au, Vileda, iRobot, Sumitomo Tyres and High Sierra.

One of the clients she’s most proud of is the charity Movember, who she has been working with for ten years. In that time she has seen it grow from the peach fuzz of 30 moustaches to the juggernaut of facial follicles that it has become. Movember now boasts 5 million “Mo Bros” and is a global non-for profit leader & movement in changing the face of Men’s Health.

Outside of work Leanne likes eating cheese and drinking wine. She also likes going camping, hiking and heading to the dog beach with her rescue puppy Frankie.  She also takes her dog to a thing called “Humming Puppy Yoga”. While I have no idea what that is you have to admit that it sounds awesome!

Leanne also likes Survivor but… who cares. Humming Puppy Yoga FTW!

A learned man on the cusp of becoming an intimidatingly learned man Tom completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Media and Communications at Deakin. He is currently doing his masters at Swinburne while learning from the masters at Hatched.

Tom is an avid skier and used to compete but Tom doesn’t believe in going downhill in his work life and so he joined us.

We love the new comers. They bring an energy that ignites the entire agency. Welcome aboard Tom.

For over 30 years Martyn has had two wives. One is the lovely lady with whom he has raised two children and the other, the media industry, which has taken him from one side of the globe to the other.

A media juggernaut Martyn has worked for such heavyweights as Publicis in London and legendary Melbourne agency, The Campaign Palace. He eventually went on to become the founder and Managing Director of FRANk Media, an agency that he ran for 18 years. He is now using the vast knowledge he has gained over his stellar career to benefit the Hatched family.

An avid yoga practitioner Martyn is here to make sure Hatched remains flexible and continues to move in new and innovative ways. His desire to inject creativity into a fast moving business will ensure we stay ahead of the curve.

Also, Martyn has webbed toes. You are unlikely to see them.

Virginia is one of the pillars that Hatched is built on. A true veteran with twenty years experience in both creative and media agencies her industry knowledge is boundless, In her career she has worked on an incredibly diverse range of clients so whether it’s something you wear, something you eat or something you live in Virginia has the knowledge. Virginia also runs her own creative business and also runs two children. This proves that when it comes to multitasking, chicks rule. That last sentence proves that when it comes to misogyny men do.

Eliza has just joined the team at Hatched. It’s her first full time job in media so we tried to convince her that everyone wears bow ties and slippers on Fridays. We quickly found out that she’s too smart to fall for that so made her our Communications Coordinator.

One of the reasons we suspect Eliza didn’t fall for our cunning ruse is due to her previous work on Red Bull. In her position as Student Brand Manager she brought marketing activations and promotions to various campuses.

We think the energy drink may have had a permanent effect on Eliza. She scrolls through instagram at a phenomenal pace and gets overly excited about French bulldogs.

It does not, however, explain why she’s a Hawthorn supporter. Nothing could explain that.

Madeleine comes to Hatched after spending 6 years in store management, where she worked on brands like Subway and Dotti. Fast food and fast fashion quickly lost its lustre so she moved to the wonderful world of media.

Outside of work Madeleine loves going on adventures. As a footy fan she can be found following Sydney throughout the AFL season. She considers eating her passion and is so enamoured with the very concept that she wrote it in all caps in her bio.

A complex creature with contrasting hobbies Madeleine likes being active and strangely considers sunbathing as being active.

The Hatched nest keeps getting bigger! But as long as our new members are of the calibre of Jacqui they can keep on coming.

Jacqui’s a veteran but you wouldn’t know it from her youthful attitude. She’s been in the media game for thirteen years, three in the UK and ten in a country technically owned by the UK. She’s made her name in tough categories like cars, travel and health.

In Jacqui’s spare time she likes to cook and take photos but we haven’t discovered yet if she’s gone so far as to have a dedicated Instagram.

It’s interesting to know that Jacqui would rather jump out of a plane than dive underwater. It’s this propensity to ignore little risks in favour of massive ones with huge rewards that we like at Hatched.

Craig’s first office job was at Advertising Investment Services and it came about because he applied when he initially thought their acronym, AIS, stood for Australian Institute of Sport.

Craig is no longer confused by acronyms. He holds a CPA and a Masters and has worked in agencyland both here and overseas. It’s fair to say he knows his ABCs, and his MAFS, ROIs and FMCGs.

Craig likes to relax with coffee. We encourage this. When stimulants are what you use to relax you tend to be an incredibly productive worker.

Lucy has been in the media and marketing game for twenty years. (She also spent two years on client side but we don’t talk about that). In her time in media and marketing she has worked on some of Australia’s and the world’s biggest brands. Lucy has a child and, like a lot of parents, enjoys cooking, bushwalking and taking her three year old to the beach, unlike a lot of parents though Lucy never leaves her three year old at the beach. Lucy studies nutrition and has an innate knowledge of foodstuffs. This has made it exceptionally difficult to steal her lunch from the fridge.

Georgie comes from one of Australia’s most successful real estate websites realestate.com.au. That website may not be as successful now that Georgie’s left and joined Hatched because the girl is amazing and is as irreplaceable as they come.

Coming from that background means you can be sure Georgie knows property and how to market it.

Georgie enjoys walking with her cavoodle Archie and dining out. She also knows the moves to 90% of Dirty Dancing and isn’t afraid to let you know.

Our Christmas parties are about to get very interesting.

Rae rocks. She’s only been in the game for 10 months but in that time she’s already worked on blue chip clients like Wesfarmers group.

Rae is well versed in media and beyond. She’s worked at TV stations in Australia, a magazine in China and has at one point, even been a professional Bollywood performer.

Rae loves music and loves to dance meaning Friday nights just got a lot more interesting in the hatchery.

With 19 years’ media experience Stephen is no stranger to the game. He’s worked in both the UK and Melbourne across the European and APAC markets.

Stephen’s a retail specialist who has been awarded for his work numerous times. Some of Australia’s biggest retailers, such as JB Hi Fi, Bunnings and Officeworks have used Stephen’s knowledge and intuition to further their business.

Stephen lives a very active life, or rather, Stephen’s kids live a very active life and he gets his exercise keeping up with them.

He’s currently sitting at 65% English and 35% Aussie. And he’s worried what happens when he gets to 51% Australian. Um… You’ll be able to expose your skin to the sun Stephen!

Our new Communications Executive Bronte possibly has multiple personality disorder. After midnight on Saturday, she becomes multi lingual and morphs into Dora the Explorer.

While she possibly has multiple personality disorder Bronte definitely has multiple nationality disorder. Born in New Zealand she made the trip over the Tasman to study advertising at RMIT.

That move was followed by Bronte winning an influential job placement where she got to work on a range of clients. While these clients included Twinings, Don Smallgoods and Racing Victoria it was her work for the AFL that has become a career highlight to date and turned her into an avid AFL fan. She supports the Eagles which means she travelled from New Zealand to Melbourne to follow a club from Perth.

Bronte is going places!

Our new Communications Coordinator, Emily Stewart, is known as ‘Stewie’ because Australia lacks imagination when it comes to nicknames.

Emily is another fresh face here at Hatched. It’s her first job in the media industry and she arrives after studying a Bachelor of Design in digital media. Initially Emily was heading for the world of web design but after a brief foray decided that the world of media could offer infinitely more excitement.

She has arrived brimming with the exuberance of a young spirit embarking on an exciting new path and we’re going to try and siphon that exuberance and share it with the rest of the staff.

Fun fact. Instead of owning a dog Emily has a rabbit that thinks it’s a dog. This must prove to be incredibly cost effective.

Kimberley Leopoldo is another of our fresh Hatchlings. And when we say fresh we don’t mean inexperienced. After finishing advertising at RMIT Kimberley worked with clients like EnergyAustralia, Asahi Premium Beverages, Twining’s, Sukin, Caydon Property Group and Carmans Muesli.

In her spare time Kim and her friends explore Victoria, taking road trips, visiting Hanging Rock and travelling to other out of the way places. No stranger to the edge of danger Kimberly’s next mission is to go cliff diving!

Kimberley says her most interesting work to date has been on Asahi and Vodka Cruiser, which is sure to come to the fore at social events. Unfortunately, this is doubly worrying as Kim is a self-confessed social media junkie, adept at the quick pic snapchat post.

What happens at Hatched stays at Hatched Kimberley!

This is Alyce. 10 years experience has taught her a few things about the media game.  From working on clients such as Hairhouse Warehouse she’s learned how to plan, buy, monitor, and that she likes getting her hair blow waved once a week. In her career Alyce has worked in agencies big and small on brands such as Target, L’Oreal and Spotlight. She has also learned one incredibly valuable thing – that’s if you put boxing’ in your list of hobbies your bio will be written very, very delicately.

Clare is one of our new Hatchlings. She comes to us with 4 years of media experience, having worked on L’Oreal and their three main signature brands, Garnier, Maybelline and L’Oreal Paris.

Clare loves camping and tries to get out of the city at least once a month. And when she’s not enjoying the great outdoors Clare enjoys hanging out with her 7 month old Staffy, Lucy.

Despite these normal habits Clare also has a penchant for cheeseboard combinations that some would describe as bordering on maniacal.

We’ve seated her far away from the kitchen to be safe.

Remy is another new communications coordinator here at Hatched. She comes to us after completing a course with the longest title ever – Bachelor Of Communications Majoring in Public Relations and Minoring in Marketing and Media at Swinburne University.

In her spare time Remy does intelligent things like watching documentaries and supporting Collingwood.

That last fact alone should tell you that Remy is incredible smart, beautiful and a born leader. Collingwood is also coincidentally, the same football team that the author of this bio supports.

With 14 years of media experience across some of the countries’ biggest clients Sharni brings a wealth of experience to Hatched.

In that time she has worked on big car brands like Ford, retail giants like Officeworks and Kmart and hair and skincare mainstay Garnier. She’s been involved in famous campaigns like the National Australia Bank’s ‘Break up with the other banks’ campaign while also finding time for more altruistic clients like the National Home Doctor Service.

Sharni loves minimal design and has recently rebuilt a 100-year old Edwardian house. Her minimal design is no doubt under constant threat by her two energetic sons. Sharni is also oddly enough a fan of excel spreadsheets outside the office and uses them to plan shopping expeditions and the like with military detail.

Another interesting thing to note about Sharni is that when she wrote dot points about herself she did it in third person. History has told us that this is a sign of either greatness or craziness. At Hatched we don’t hire crazy.

Matthew graduated from his advertising and marketing course at RMIT in 2013, having already studied cooking, event management, creative writing and journalism.

Putsy, as he likes to be known, went straight into the work force after graduating and has already worked on some exciting national brands and businesses before coming to Hatched. These include Vic Gov & Vic Tourism, National Tiles, Baby Bunting, Sass & Bide, Aquila and the Grand Prix/MotoGP.

At Hatched Putsy occupies the position of Search Manager, though with his education history he is sure to be doing things that his job description never mentioned. We’re thinking he could be perfect to cater and organise one of the many Hatched shindigs!

A man of interesting hobbies Putsy enjoys culinary exploits, winning F.R.I.E.N.D.S. trivia competitions and running his own AFL fantasy football league. He takes the league extremely seriously making custom trophies and the like.  How many members of the Hatched family will join? Only time will tell.