Emily Cook is a Media Specialist with 13 years Media Agency experience across the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane markets. In June 2021, Emily returned to Brisbane as the Head of Client Partnerships championing the people and clients of Carat Brisbane. In her role she leads the day-to-day running of Carat with a people first leadership focus. She is a member of the National Carat
Executive Leadership Team in driving the national Carat business forward. She cultivates and coaches a high performing team across Media Strategy, Planning, Investment, Digital and Tech to deliver growth for the Carat and Dentsu QLD clients. In Sydney, Emily previously led the Vodafone Media Account at Wavemaker for three years. In this role she drove the ways of working within the agency village ensuring a cohesive and aligned approach across the Marketing and Agency teams. Prior to this role she lived in Melbourne and was a client leader across the Carlton & United Breweries Portfolio.
Prior to this, Emily had moved from Brisbane to Melbourne to set up an office for a Brisbane Independent Media Agency she had worked at for 5 years prior and spent 18 months establishing this agency in Melbourne. Emily is an advocate within the Media Industry for people growth and personal development spending two years as the MFA5+ Committee Chair (Sydney) for the Media Federation of Australia and continuing supporting NGEN initiatives as a speaker and mentor. In her role as
Committee Chair, she led the MFA5+ committee during Covid-19, taking the Quarterly Inspiration Events into an online format, hosting and scripting content to 200+ attendees. Her passion for the industry, client leadership and work with the MFA5+ committee saw Emily named a 2020 AdNews Emerging Leader Finalist, 2019 B&T Women in Media Rising Star Finalist & 30 Under 30 Finalist
