NICOLA LEWIS

Chief Investment Officer, GroupM

A highly respected media executive, with extensive experience across all channels and digital integration, she now leads the investment function at the biggest media investment group in Australia and sits on the Senior Leadership Team. 

In 2019, Nicola was named the seventh most powerful woman in media by B&T Magazine (up from ninth in 2018), and in 2018 was shortlisted as Executive Leader of the Year within the Women in Media Awards.

Nicola was promoted to GroupM Chief Investment Officer in 2018 after spending four years at GroupM agency Mindshare as CIO.

Before moving agency side, Nicola spent her career in publishers in both Australia and the UK. Nicola earned a degree in Psychology at Sussex University before joining the Conde Nast sales team based in central London. She moved to Australia in 2003.

She has held high profile sales roles at both Fairfax and News Corp in Australia and immediately prior to joining the Mindshare National Leadership team, spent five years serving as National Sales Director of News Digital Media before moving to the role of NSW Sales Director of the integrated print and digital business within NewsCorp Australia.