Unilever marketing chief Peter Boone set for Mumbrella360 keynote

Tim Burrowes

May 25, 2011 2:46

Peter Boone, the newly arrived Chief Marketing Officer of Unilever Australasia, has been announced as the keynote guest to open the second day of next month’s Mumbrella360 conference.

Boone – a 15 year veteran with Unilever in markets across the world – was appointed to the role late last year after three years as the company’s global vice president of brand development, based in the Netherlands. Before that he was Unilever’s vice president of marketing and sales for Latin America. He began his career with Unilever in 1995.

His appearance at Mumbrella360 will see him interviewed on stage by Mumbrella editor Tim Burrowes in one of his first industry appearances since arriving in Australia.

Unilever is one of the world’s most influential advertisers with brands including Dove, Streets, Flora, Lynx, Vaseline, Bertolli, Sunsilk, Omo, Rexona and Lipton. It is among the ten biggest spending companies in Australia with an annual media spend estimated by Nielsen at $80m.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.