Stuart Wallace is named Executive GM of Corporate Affairs

Ounissa Quaid has been promoted to Account Director at Madden & Assoc, after joining the agency as Senior Account Manager in 2024.

At Madden, she specialises in financial services communications, working with clients across wealth management, asset management and private markets.

Prior to this, Ounissa was at Mana Communications and worked in-house within the government sector, with earlier international agency experience spanning financial services, private equity and aviation finance. 

Jessie Davis has commenced at Auckland One Rail as Communications Specialist (contract), where she is responsible for managing external and internal communications ahead of the launch of New Zealand’s largest transport infrastructure project, the City Rail Link.

Jessie was previously Communications Manager at not-for-profit B Lab Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, and prior to that worked as part of the Sustainable Business and Communications team at Unilever ANZ.

She has also held roles across a number of communications agencies and continues to run her own consultancy, Davis Communications, servicing clients including the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet.

Hannah Stenning has been promoted to Head of Corporate Affairs for Westpac Institutional Bank. Based in Sydney, she first joined Westpac’s corporate affairs team in 2024 as Executive Manager, working across various functions within its Business & Wealth Division.

Prior to joining the banking and finance sector, Hannah spent time in an internal comms role at KPMG Australia, following more than a decade in the media, including roles at News Corp and Nine.