Marina Go

Marina is GM of Hearst-Bauer Media, Chair Wests Tigers Rugby League and has more than 25 years of leadership experience in print and digital media. She is also an experienced non-executive director of private, industry and NFP Boards and has an MBA from UNSW’s Australian Graduate School of Management.

Prior to her role as Private Media CEO from 2012 – 14, Go launched Women’s Agenda, and managed and developed digital properties and related brand extensions as publisher of The Hannan Group’s Independent Digital Media. She began her media career as a newspaper journalist with The Daily Mirror before being lured to the world of magazine publishing at ACP. She was appointed editor of Dolly magazine at 23.

Other senior roles have included: managing editor of Cosmopolitan, launch editor of Australian Good Taste, editor-in-chief of ELLE Australia, launch editor of ELLE Cuisine, editor of Sunday Life, group publisher at EMAP Australia, publishing director and editor-in-chief of Pacific Publications, associate publisher of Fairfax Lifestyle Media and general manager of Fairfax Newsstand Magazines.