Caroline Oates and Aaron Boekestein: Oates appointed director of the Agency and Partners Team, Google Australia and New Zealand, leading commercial strategy and joint initiatives with media agency, technology and creative partners; she has led YouTube advertising and programmatic sales for AuNZ for the past nine years and has been at Google for 14 years, and starts later in October. Boekestein moved in early October to managing director, Agency & 3rd Party Ecosystems, APAC, based in Singapore, leading Google's newly unified regional agency and partner organisation; he previously led Google's AuNZ Ads Partnerships team. "We are immensely proud to see our local leaders step up into new roles across AuNZ and APAC," said Mel Silva, managing director and vice president, Google Australia and New Zealand. Reported 14/10/2026.
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