Salt and Shein names 50 most influential corporate affairs leaders
Corporate affairs recruitment firm Salt and Shein has named its annual list of the 50 most influential corporate affairs practitioners, with spinners from the ABC, Seven and Ten all making the list for a second year in a row.
The 2015 list also includes the likes of high profile Qantas executive Olivia Wirth, Westfield’s Mark Ryan and Optus’s David Epstein and, also found that increasingly corporate affairs was reporting to the CEO rather than to marketing.
“More and more heads of corporate affairs are reporting to CEOs,” said Josh Shein, director of Salt and Shein. “These days it is considered equal to if not more senior than the head of marketing by most listed companies.”
Shein argued that there was now a clear shift and that corporate affairs directors reporting into the marketing was a rarity, with specific and different functions for the two roles.
This list is so bogus. I laughed last year and I laugh again.
You sound like someone who didn’t make the cut
What a predictably boring list – banks, telcos, and commodity companies. Not a single tech company, let alone start up. Guess that reflects the backward state of the Aussie economy though.
Arent they just listing their current or potential clients?
Nothing more than an exercise in pandering to and stroking the egos of their recruitment clientele.
True influence is invisible
What a crock, I’ve dealt with more than half of these people as a journalist and many of them don’t know the first thing about a story. The problem with this profession is that they are no longer employing former journalists, but folk who don’t get the media because they’ve had an entire career in corporate affairs. I laughed when I read that one of the multinationals considers themselves a publisher. Ha! What consumer gives a flying you know what about that? Finally, to end my rant, Salt and Shein have the blinkers on – this power list merely contains their clients or people they want to represent. Blah blah blah.
Gees not the reception Salt and Shein would want. If I were them this would be the last year of this ridiculous list. It simply shows them up as an agency desperately hunting for clients. Dr Mumbo how about seeking a disclosure from them about how many on their list are current, former or prospective clients?