John Croll

Chief Executive Officer

John Croll has been active in the media intelligence industry since 1982 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Media Monitors in 1999.  Prior to his appointment, John held sales and operational roles with Croll Communications and Media Monitors.  

John is a current Executive Vice President of FIBEP, the International Federation of Press Clipping Bureaus and is a member of the Association of Media Evaluation Companies (AMEC) Copyright and Licensing Commission.  John is also a member of the Public Relations Institute of Australia and the Institute of Company Directors. 

In addition to his Industry appointments, he is a Board member of the Australian Paralympic Committee since 2008, a member of the Media Advisory Board  for the Salvation Army, Eastern Region and a Director of the Australian Science Media Centre. 

Nimesh Shah

Chief Financial Officer

Nimesh has more than over 15 years experience as an executive in the media and Internet sectors with experience gained working in the Australia, UK and many parts of Asia.

Much of Nimesh's experience has been gained in growing companies. Before working for Media Monitors, Nimesh was the  CFO at the Asian social networking site Friendster. As the Global CFO, he was responsible for managing the key Financial and Statutory obligation of the company and was actively involved in Corporate and Business development initiatives. 

Nimesh was also the Finance Director at Fairfax Digital for seven years and responsible for the entire Financial operations of the division as it experienced exponential growth.

Gregg Amies

General Manager, Australia & New Zealand

Gregg Amies has extensive leadership, sales and monitoring industry experience, previously holding senior management positions in corporate investment, retail and media companies. Prior to his business career, Gregg served as a commissioned officer in the Australian Army. Joining Media Monitors in August 2001, Gregg has held a number of senior positions including Business Development Manager and State Manager Victoria/Tasmania.
 

In 2006, he was seconded as General Manager - Rehame, responsible for the integration of this major acquisition. He was subsequently appointed Group Sales and Marketing Manager. He became General Manager Australia & New Zealand in July 2007.
 

Gregg currently sits on the advisory panel for Media, Communications and Marketing for RMIT and works out of Media Monitor's Melbourne office.

Brendan Swale

Executive Director, Product & Innovation

Brendan Swale has 15 years experience in the media monitoring and research industry, in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia. He was Research Manager for Sponsorship Information Services in both the UK and Australia and then General Manager of Media Monitors Australia’s Analysis division, before being appointed General Manager of Media Monitors’ operations in New Zealand following the acquisition of Media Search, now part of Media Monitors.

In 2007, Brendan returned to Sydney to take up the position of Group Research Director.  In 2008 Brendan was appointed to his current position of Executive Director, Product and Innovation, responsible for new product development and business process improvement.

Brendan is currently a board member of the international Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC).

He has a degree in political studies and economics from the University of Auckland and a post-graduate diploma of business in communication management from Massey University.

Cameron Buckley

Executive Director, Marketing and Communications

Cameron has 15 years experience working for market leading media services companies, with significant international expertise having worked in Australia, The United Kingdom and Asia. He has held senior management and consultancy positions spanning Marketing, Client Services and Consumer & Market Intelligence.  Cameron has overseen Media Monitors expansion into Malaysia and Singapore and lead its transformation to a 24/7 business with over 150 employees that service the regions leading multinational and local organisations.  Before taking on the role of General Manager of South East Asia, Cameron was State Manager of Victoria & Tasmania. 

Cameron holds a Bachelor of Business from Swinburne Institute of Technology majoring in Economics and Marketing, and an Advanced Diploma in Direct and Interactive Marketing from the Institute of Direct Marketing in the UK. 

Jarrod P Smith

General Manager, Greater China

Jarrod Smith has extensive leadership, sales and strategic management experience holding senior management positions in Media Monitors and some of New Zealand’s largest corporate organisations. Jarrod currently leads Media Monitors business across Greater China, which includes China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.

In mainland China, Media Monitors operates under the Sinofile Information Consulting Limited brand, with over 120 staff based in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Before taking up the role as General Manager for Greater China, Jarrod was the Country Manager for Media Monitors New Zealand, based in the head office in Wellington. Prior to joining Media Monitors, Jarrod held the position of National Sales Support Manager at Insurance Australia Group (IAG) NZ.

Amanda Tober

Executive Director, Human Resources

Amanda is responsible for leading a team of HR professionals across the Media Monitors Group to design and implement strategic human resources, payroll, and organisational effectiveness practices to ensure our people are motivated, innovative, empowered and accountable. Ensuring that we have the necessary skills to deliver against our strategic plan.

Amanda has over 15 years experience in human resources, and has managed HR functions across the Asia Pacific region in both multi-national and ASX listed companies, including Graincorp, BMC Software, Philips Electronics and Boral. Amanda has a business degree, and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Joe De Battista

Chief Information Officer

With over 22 years in senior management roles in ICT, Joe De Battista has strong technical, governance and commercial experience. Over this time he has developed key strengths in change leadership, strategy, financial and partner relationship management. Prior to joining Media Monitors in 2003, Joe held several positions with the SGS Group (A global testing and verification organisation) in Australia during the early 90s, progressing to SGS Australasia and then a global role with SGS Group Management in Geneva.

Leon Hudson

General Manager, South East Asia

Leon is responsible for leading the South East Asia headquarters for Media Monitors Group and is a member of the senior executive team.
Leon brings 11 years of media intelligence expertise and significant international experience having worked in Europe, New Zealand and Asia.

He began his media career in London working at an independent sports publisher followed by a period at an award winning contract publisher. From there he took up a business development role with a leading UK media planning, monitoring and evaluation agency. Prior to moving to Singapore Leon was general manager of a New Zealand based media intelligence company. Whilst in NZ he guest lectured on media related topics at AUT University and Waikato University. Leon holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Politics from the University of Plymouth.