Our Team

Stuart is widely regarded as one of Australia’s leaders in marketing, public relations and influencer engagement. He has led Liquid Ideas since 2000 and continues to be excited and inspired by great brands telling authentic stories across all media.

Stuart loves storytelling – whether it’s on his blog, on the radio, via social media or via his soapbox. Rest assured, his thoughts can always be heard! It’s no secret that Stuart knows pretty much everyone you need to know in Australia, and if he doesn’t, he knows someone who’ll make an introduction. He’s passionate about every sort of sport imaginable and makes the best negroni in town.

Narelle is ever-passionate about great people, great ideas and great results. Despite half-hearted attempts at island sabbaticals and her love for international in-house, brand comms roles, Sydney & agency life keeps luring her back and she wouldn’t have it any other way. 

Narelle’s international experience across London, New York, LA and Asia has given her years worth of entertaining stories at dinner parties.  And great brand comms experience, happily fuelling 10 fabulous years as co-founder and Managing Director of the award-winning Bang Public Relations. She gets equally excited working with global powerhouse brands as with brand new, start up challengers.  May also have appeared in Sex and the City, true story.

Sally Lewis has been involved in writing about, talking about, living and breathing the best of food, wine and travel in Australia and globally for 20 years.  Sally’s career includes more than a decade working on magazine titles including Vogue Entertaining + Travel, Australian Gourmet Traveller and Gourmet Traveller WINE and was editor of The Age Good Food Guide for three years. Sally rejoined the business in February 2017 as Media + Hospitality Director with the best contact book in the business. 

Belinda has over 15 years experience gained in Australia and Europe developing and leading successful communications campaigns for global brands from the consumer lifestyle, travel and entertainment, FMCG, alcohol and retail fields. From creating sponsorship platforms for Dubai Tourism, Audi, Telstra, Wella and Pernod Ricard, to developing global PR platforms for brands like American Express, Mumm Champagne and Hugo Boss, through to hosting events for over 1000 key influencers for luxury brands. Belinda knows the consumer lifestyle and communications sector.  She is passionate about delivering creative ideas that  are developed through intelligent insights to drive brand growth.

After a year sabbatical frolicking in Melbourne and eating and drinking her way across Italy, Frankie has returned to Liquid Ideas where she started as a Communication Council graduate in 2013.   

Frankie has worked across a variety of lifestyle clients, and has a particular interest in non-for-profits and the drinks industry as well as a desire to understand the world of Behavioural Economics.

Half Italian, Frankie wishes she was also half Mexican, loves second hand treasures and believes tequila is one of the ways to, yet the only way out of a hangover.

Gillian started with Liquid Ideas in May 2015 after almost a year travelling throughout Latin America. While there, she volunteered at an orphanage in Guatemala, swam with sea lions in the Galapagos Islands and got engaged! She came back to Sydney to celebrate her Grandmother’s 100th birthday. Prior to that, Gillian worked in the very different world of PR and policy/lobbying. In her three years at the industry association Consult Australia, Gillian was editor of the association’s magazine, looked after newsletters and reports, managed all PR/media relations and worked on policy submissions and thought-leadership papers.

Laura spent six years sailing around the world co-ordinating the international travel and logistics for professional sailors, so she is Liquid Ideas’ go-to girl for logistics, flights, transfers and accommodation bookings. She also mixes up a tasty – and very authentic – Rum Punch!

Sophie is the backbone of the business, managing all elements of HR, budgeting, contracts, processes and procedures. She has 20 years’ experience in people, finance and administration roles both in Sydney and London.  Sophie has lived in France, walked across Spain, loves her food and is a mum to two beautiful kids.

Grace joined the Liquid Ideas team in 2010. She is immensely IT-savvy and commercially minded.

She previously trained as a medical professional, but favours finance! As the mathematical brain of the business, she manages finance, budgets and office administration. Grace is passionate about landscape photography, is a keen traveller, and has proudly left her mark at the Mt Everest Base Camp.

Juliana joined Liquid Ideas in 2015 after completing a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Sydney. Juliana is obsessed with great food and wine and has a particular interest in the drinks industry.

She also enjoys cooking, is an amateur pianist and will never quit sugar.

Lizzy is a Sydney sider newbie after growing up in Perth her whole life. She is currently across a range of clients including Unilever brands LYNX and Rexona, Tilda Rice and Southtrade’s Fever-Tree.  Lizzy has a serious sweet tooth and a love affair/ mild addiction to coffee and is obviously a mad West Coast Eagles supporter (‘caarn Eagles!).

Having lived between the country and city her whole life, Millie returned to Sydney after university and joined the Liquid Ideas team in 2016. She currently works across a broad range of clients from Fairfax to Rexona to Canadian Club. Millie thinks there’s nothing better than having a drink in the sun, but would happily pack up and move to New York in the middle of a snow storm.

Before starting at Liquid Ideas in 2016 Nicole studied media at Macquarie University whilst working in the wholesale office at Simon Johnson Fine Food Provider. Nicole was born and bred in Sydney however often travels far to visit family. Nicole loves trying new foods and thoroughly enjoys wine and cheese.

Maddie interned with Liquid Ideas for 18 months while she completed her Bachelor of Media (PR and Advertising) at UNSW, and chose us as her first legitimate PR job. She’s thrilled to be immersing herself in the world of wine, hospitality and travel.

Her current clients include The Lucas Group, Dan Murphy’s and Singapore Airlines. She’s impressively organised, takes pride in knowing the who’s who for her clients and is currently the custodian of our 5,000 strong database of influencers.

Outside of work beyond relaxing with friends and watching Game of Thrones, Maddie has a  passion for social justice that has seen her volunteer regularly.

Tess made the natural progression from interning at Liquid Ideas into a full time role. Whilst she studied International Relations and Criminology in her undergrad, her passion and drive for PR came from her involvement with The Women’s Cancer Foundation – Ovarian Cancer Institute. This led her to complete her Masters in PR and Advertising in 2017.

If Tess isn’t at a Swans game, long lunching with a good Chardonnay or at the local bowlo with friends, she’ll be running in the morning making sure she catches the early morning sunrise.

Megan joined Liquid Ideas as an overly eager intern at the beginning of 2017 and not shortly after, proudly joined the Liquid team on a permanent basis. Megan is currently in the middle of completing her Masters in Public Relations at UTS, and somehow still finds the time on the weekends to dabble in bar tending when her friends need an extra hand.

As Megan has spent most of her adult life in between bars and restaurants (both professionally and personally), Liquid Ideas was the natural choice for Megan to start this new phase of her life. Prior to Liquid Ideas Megan worked in events organising and hopes that her slight obsession with organisation will aid her in public relations.

Megan is an avid traveler who spent most of 2016 living in Los Angeles whilst pursuing her other passion, acting. Beyond work, whilst comfortably settling back into Sydney living, you can find Megan binge watching episodes of the Walking Dead, or reading in the sun; and as always, accompanied by a bottle of wine.  

Lauren joined the team with a background in Social Media and Hospitality. Alongside a life in Social Media and content creation,  Lauren has spent a majority of her professional career working in bars and fine dining restaurants both in Sydney and abroad. She’s been known to travel great lengths for good food, is partial to a good Southside and the occasional Negroni and believes the single hardest question to answer is
“What would your last meal be?”