Bio
Melanie Lindquist is an awarded media professional who has worked across multiple brands in radio, digital, television and now out-of-home for the past two decades. She currently the Managing Director for Talon Outdoor's Asia Pacific Operations - an independent full service Out of Home agency dedicated to driving client value through teamwork, expertise, creativity, data and proprietary technology.
After earning a BA in Communications she worked initially as a touring artist Publicist until Southern Cross Austereo enticed her for what would be the first of five roles across three markets with the organisation. Her radio career continued with the Australian Radio network leading their Sydney promotions and marketing teams. Melanie’s radio career was recognised with three ACRAs (Australian Commercial Radio Awards) for the industry’s best promotions & marketing director.
Television came calling when she lead the marketing and publicity team for the Nine network working closely with content, sales and programming to develop market-centric strategy to increase viewers and revenue. A ground-up opportunity to learn digital lured her agency-side to a digital agency start up where she developed the business’ strategy, client service and business development teams and grew the business to nine times the revenue in six years.
In 2017, Melanie graduated with a Masters in Business (MBA).
In her work leading client strategy & audience intelligence teams and then developing the Strategic Planning & Customer Operations unit at Australian's largest OOH organisation, oOh!media was recognised many times including a finalist nod at the B&T Women in Media Awards (Strategy) and awarded the Australian Marketing Institute’s Certified Practising Marketer of the Year (NSW).
In 2021, Melanie relocated to the thriving marketing hub of Singapore where lead the end to end capability of a Customer Team for a leading Asia-Pacific Enterprise Commerce Automation Platform. She was also approved as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM)
In 2022 Melanie was appointed as Talon Outdoor's Managing Director to lead its expansion into Asia Pacific.