James Murphy opens doors at Acorn Lane Group

Declan Flaherty has started at Crestview Strategy as Senior Consultant, based in Sydney. He was previously Manager - Government and Industry Affairs at Commonwealth Bank. Prior to this, Declan was at GRACosway.

Conor Burke has stepped into a new role as Communications Lead (Education) at the Australian Catholic University. Based in Melbourne, he made the switch into comms from journalism, where he was most recently Radio Producer at the ABC.
 
Prior to that, Conor worked in editorial roles across various publications, including The Daily Advertiser.

Xavier Duval has set up Bandwidth Communications, an agency providing fractional communications leadership to fintech, financial services and B2B startups in Asia Pacific.

Xavier was most recently Head of Corporate Communications, APAC at Swift, where he led comms for over a decade. Based in Hong Kong, his career also spans senior roles in marketing and communications at SunGard (now FIS) and Natixis.