The Starlight Children's Foundation has welcomed Maree Reason-Cain as Public Relations Specialist. She was previously Corporate Affairs & Media Advisor at yourtown, a charity providing services to tackle issues facing young people, for more than six years.

Maree previously ran her own consultancy, C4 Marketing and Communications, for nearly 16 years, following in-house roles within the agriculture and hospitality sectors. 

Karena Noble has taken on a permanent role at IHG Hotels & Resorts as Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs, Australasia Pacific. For the past year and a half, she had been running her own consultancy, Karena Noble Communications, working on projects for clients, including hotels conference AHICE, Stockland, and IHG.

Backed by over two decades' experience as a senior communications professional, Karena has led comms teams across the travel, tourism, and hospitality sectors, including at EVT, Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia, Switzerland Tourism and hotels investment fund, Pro-invest.

Movember has bolstered its team in Melbourne, welcoming Louise Fennelly as PR Manager. She transitioned into an in-house role following a stint as Head of PR at Flourish, and prior to that, spent six years as Senior Business Director at Ogilvy PR.

Louise has built up a career of close to two decades, having worked for various agencies in Melbourne and London, where she served clients across a wide range of sectors, including FMCG, entertainment, finance, travel, beauty, retail, and automotive.