Brand experience and communications agency DARKHORSE has strengthened its presence across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore with three senior appointments, while adding Veuve Clicquot to its client portfolio.In Sydney, Maxine Reed has joined as Experiential Director. She moves from Havas Red, where she spent four years leading the Brand Experience team and worked with brands including Lexus, Toyota, L’Oréal, Netflix, Tourism Tasmania and Apple TV+. Earlier, Reed spent five years in events and marketing roles at Amazon.Olivia Muir has joined DARKHORSE in Auckland as Experiential Director after three years at Mango Communications, now part of FleishmanHillard. Her previous client work included McDonald’s and New Balance. She also brings experience in sponsorship and brand experience from her time at Spark.In Singapore, Elizabeth O’Leary has been appointed Creative Director, completing the agency’s latest round of senior hires across the region.DARKHORSE has also won the account to lead Veuve Clicquot’s Clicquot Sun Lodge following a competitive pitch.Founder and CEO Mike Hewitt said the appointments and new partnership reflected the agency’s growth across the APAC region, adding that DARKHORSE had continued to attract global brands seeking brand experience expertise.(Source: telummedia)

Louis Vuitton has promoted Cathy Chia to Regional Senior Communications Manager, expanding her responsibilities across Southeast Asia and Oceania.Based in Singapore, Chia is responsible for communications initiatives spanning the region, with her remit including strategic communications, events, social media and thought leadership.Chia has been with Louis Vuitton for more than four years, according to her professional profile. She previously held communications roles in Singapore’s hospitality sector, including serving as Director of Corporate Communications at The Fullerton Hotels and Resorts.Her professional background spans diplomacy, hospitality and luxury retail, with her LinkedIn profile now describing more than 15 years of experience across these fields.Chia has also been involved in Louis Vuitton’s regional communications and brand initiatives, including events and cultural programmes in Singapore and across Southeast Asia.(Source: telummedia)

Legal agentic operating system company, Legora, has appointed Marko Zitko (right) as Director, Communications, APJ and Jocelyn Bukal (left) as Marketing Director, APJ, with immediate effect.Based in Sydney, the pair will lead Legora's marketing and communications function across APAC and Japan, following the company’s growth across the region.Marko joins after spending the past year consulting enterprise technology companies, following his role as Director of Marketing and Communications at Freelancer.com, where he led brand marketing, communications, and investor relations. He previously spent four years at WE Communications, managing campaigns for clients including Adobe, Sony, and UiPath.Jocelyn brings more than 15 years of B2B technology marketing experience across the APAC region, most recently as Regional Marketing Director APJ at Snyk. Prior to that, she held regional marketing leadership roles at Elastic and Instructure, following earlier positions at Bottomline Technologies, Carnival Corporation, and Symantec.“Legal teams across APJ are moving from evaluating AI to adopting it, and how we show up in each of these markets matters,” said Heather Paterson, VP APJ at Legora.“Jocelyn has spent her career building marketing engines for enterprise software companies scaling across this region. Marko has been working with us on our APAC communications for the past ten months, and we’ve seen firsthand how he builds trust in the market. Together they give us a regional team that matches the opportunity in front of us.”(Source: telummedia)

MathCo has appointed Rohini Sharma as Head – Marketing & Communications, as the data and analytics company looks to strengthen its brand, market positioning and global communications.Sharma will lead the company’s marketing and communications function, overseeing brand strategy, demand generation, corporate communications and customer engagement initiatives aligned with MathCo’s growth plans.She brings more than 15 years of experience across brand strategy, product marketing, go-to-market strategy, demand generation, digital marketing, corporate communications and customer marketing.Before joining MathCo, Sharma held leadership roles at AGS Health, Aezion and Infosys, where she worked across brand building, go-to-market programmes, product marketing, demand generation and corporate communications.Aditya Kumbakonam, Co-Founder and COO, MathCo, said Sharma’s experience across marketing leadership, brand building and communications would help strengthen the company’s market presence and support its next phase of growth.