Champions of Digital Inlight

In this episode of Champions of Digital, Mark hosts Nathan McEwan, the CMO
and Digital Officer at Stratton Finance. Mark and Nathan discuss digital's
influence on the CMO role, gaining trust with the executive team and the
death of CX! Get the inside scoop on a unique approach to launching an
e-commerce platform for one of Australia’s largest asset finance brokers,
and much more.

Mathew Ashley, Director of Experience Design & Delivery at Westpac joins us on the Champions of Digital Podcast this week to chat all things digital, design and leadership. This week you can expect to hear a bit more about design thinking in a large corporate sector environment, dealing with a Royal Commission and  what it takes to thrive as a designer in an organisation like Westpac.
















































“For any one individual piece of work, you’ve got to find that balance between our business outcome and customer outcome and you’ve go to find the middle ground. You’ve got to deliver a great customer experience. But ultimately, we’ve got to deliver a business outcome as well”

— Mathew Ashley




About MathewWith a background and Degree in Design, Mathew is a passionate and highly motivated, results driven, creative and strategic problem solver with over 15 years experience encompassing Engineering, Advertising and Digital Product Design and Development. He has worked in a number of different markets including the UK, Australia and Japan Mathew possesses extensive experience in building, managing and supporting successful Digital Product Design teams with a specific focus on Experience Design, Digital Strategy and Innovation. Well versed in the design and agile development of both consumer and enterprise solutions, he is also passionate about collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to design and build new products from the ground up, fix existing products that are broken or improve products and processes that are not working as well as they could be.

This week Mark jumps into the education industry with GM of Strategy and New Product, Jack Hylands. A passionate teacher, Jack left the consulting industry early on to pursue his passion for education, specifically tailoring University offerings to the modern learner. Mark and Jack speak on the drastic changes that have happened within education over the last few decades, providing world-class student experiences and scaling a team at pace.
















































“What are the job roles that the industry can’t fill, and how can we work with them to make sure that our students are learning the most up to date, relevant and cutting edge things to take advantage of those opportunities?”

— Jack Hylands




About JackJack is highly passionate about excellence and equity in education, and what this means for the future world of work. Jack is currently leading the strategy of RMIT Online and advising a number of education and technology start-ups. Jack was previously CEO of Ducere, where he established and grew innovative degrees with universities in Australia and overseas.
Jack's prior background is as a management consultant in the digital space and an alumnus of the Teach First Leadership Development program. Jack is an arts graduate from the University of Cambridge and a qualified mathematics teacher.
Jack is a director of Cann10 Australia, a business advisory council member of ACS and a strategy advisor for Maddie Riewoldt's Vision.

Welcome our second guest for the season, CTO at Carsguide, Jeremy Gupta. Mark and Jeremy discuss what it means to implement change effectively, developing a culture of knowledge sharing into an organisation and why Jeremy doesn’t want to be involved in every single meeting. With an abundance of tidbits, anecdotal experience and some banter, check out this episode to learn about the ups, downs and sideways experiences of what it means to be CTO of an evolving technology company.
















































“The biggest challenge in my role isn’t technology, it’s people.”

— Jeremy Gupta




About JeremyAn experienced technology and product leader, Jeremy has been working in digital since 2003 after graduating from UNSW with a Bachelor of Computer Engineering and a Masters in Biomedical Engineering.
With experience across the full product life cycle - from pre-sales to ideation, scoping, product management, solution architecture, engineering, data and then hosting and support he has been influencing companies and partners to adopt a mobile first approach and ensure that technology is a differentiator and not just an enabler.
His core interests are in building and leading effective teams, strategy, product development, automation and the creation of Products that serve unmet needs.

We’re kicking off Champions of Digital Season 2 with a bang. First cab off the rank is Scott McClure. Scott is a strategy man who’s now heading up IT for a multi billion dollar grains company, GrainsCorp.

We’re excited to bring you a second season of Champions of Digital. Thanks for joining us to hear from some more digital legends this season!