Grill The Marketer 2025

Grill The Marketer

May 29 sees Matt Oakley and Nikki Atack sitting in the hot seat! 

You'll hear from Matt Oakley, CSO at 303 MullenLowe who's releasing 'The evolving role of the CMO - a Western Australia perspective' and Nikki Atack, a senior marketer who oversees sales, marketing and customer experience at ASX-listed Pentanet.

Matt Oakley
Matt’s the Chief Strategy Officer at 303 MullenLowe where he can often be found focusing and inspiring the creative work that drives behaviour change and effectiveness for the likes of Lotterywest, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Netball Western Australia and most recently The Push-Up Challenge.

A relative newcomer to WA, his time prior to arrival saw him working across the globe with the likes of Carlsberg Group, Nestlé Group, Mars Wrigley and Mondelez.

He’ll soon be releasing ‘The evolving role of the CMO - a Western Australia perspective’ a first of its kind focused look at the challenges facing marketers in the state he now calls home, and at The Marketer, we've always been about championing local marketing people and campaigns.

Nikki Atack
Nikki Atack is Chief Marketing & Experience Officer at Pentanet, where she leads the marketing, sales, and customer service teams across the company’s local ISP business and its national cloud gaming platform, GeForce NOW Powered by CloudGG.

A seasoned marketing specialist, Nikki has over 25 years’ experience across UK and Australian markets. Her career spans a wide range of industries including health, consulting, public sector, financial services, FMCG, tourism, and creative services.

She's previously held senior roles at Deloitte Digital, HIF Australia, HBF, Fogarty Wine Group, and Milne AgriGroup and is an Australian Marketing Institute Certified Practising Marketer.
Nikki has also contributed to the industry through a volunteer advisory role with the Indigenous Emerging Business Forum, and served five years on the ADMA WA Events Committee.

The Event Background

Grill The Marketer, in partnership with the Australian Marketing Institute welcomes all marketers, business owners and managers, and marketing students - if you have marketing questions, come and ask them. Don't have a specific question - but you want to chat marketing with people who LOVE to talk about marketing? Great! Come along.

Are you looking for a marketing role? Maybe we can introduce you to your new boss. It's happened before.

Our community is generous with their time and skills and believe that when it comes to marketing, the better you do, the better we all do. That's why so many awesome projects and collabs have been born from this event. We LOVE connecting our networks.

We don't enjoy events with pitches, boring PowerPoint pressos, and upsells. So Grill The Marketer is simply our marketing brains directed at your challenge or topic. What would go for a bundle in consulting fees or training dollars, comes to you in this fun package for less than your Tuesday night Uber Eats order.

The Marketer will let you grill them on their areas of expertise, and those of the guest panellist/s, and MC Jacqueline will keep us all on track.

Some of our previous guests include; Kate Kirwin from She Codes & Young Australian of the Year, Hannah Muirhead, formerly of The Brand Agency, Amber Martin of Hypnosis Creative Agency, Alison Balch, CMO at Penanet, David "DG" Gardiner from DGPR, Crown Perth's Kelly Townson, TikTok sensation Seva Mozhaev (@sevspics), Cory Gale from Tourism WA, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Rare Callum Mackenzie, and Pretzel founder, Brittany Garbutt.

So you KNOW no matter the guest or topic, we bring you the most interesting people willing to put themselves out there to answer whatever you throw at them.

You'll love the informal format and awesome community vibe while we help you explore your marketing curiosity with passion and the odd tangent.

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Cost: $48+bf (includes snacks)

Date: Multiple

Where: The Court | Verdict Bar (upstairs)

Time: 5.30pm - 8.30pm

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How does this all work anyway?

Come along, grab yourself a drink at the bar and mingle. Our crew's super welcoming and friendly so you'll be totally fine to rock up by yourself.

Our MC will let you know when it's time to start. We'll introduce ourselves, outline the event, and intro your marketing question answer-ers.

If you're called on to ask your question, please say your name and the business/industry your question relates to and we'll do our best to tailor our answers to you specifically.

Once we’re done feel free to hang around for drinks and to chat more about marketing 🙂

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Grill The Marketer came about from talking to marketing event attendees who really just wanted their questions answered without the fluff and sales agenda.

Grill The Marketer is presented in partnership with the Australian Marketing Institute, and affords those who hold the Certified Practising Marketer (CPM) certification to collect points towards maintaining your CPM status.

We provide membership ticket pricing for PADC members and a student discount, contact us for more info.

Want to make sure we answer your specific question? Send them in advance to hey@themarketer.news