Work
Change.Delivered.
Fifteen years across banking, infrastructure, government and climate tech, much of it where the stakes and the scrutiny run high.
Blue Carbon
An early-stage ocean-tech company with breakthrough engineering and no public profile. The work was strategy and translation: a communications function built from scratch, and hard ocean science positioned to land with government, investors and the public. Inside three years Blue Carbon became an XPRIZE Water Scarcity semifinalist, one of twenty teams in the largest XPRIZE ever run, with a two-time Earthshot Prize nomination and a KPMG Nature Positive Challenge win.
Australian Banking Association
A peak body rebuilding public trust after the Royal Commission, then holding it through the Black Summer bushfires, COVID and the floods. The work behind that recovery was a rebuilt digital presence and the Association's first internal communications function, with dense and sensitive policy made clear enough for government and the public to act on. Consumption of that policy rose 660%.
That name seems familiar?
Yes, that Oscar Hillerstrom.
If you're a film fan in Australia, you might know the name. Founding editor of Empire magazine, I also ran Popcorn Taxi, the live film celebration Q&A, chatting with the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo del Toro (who avoided being exorcised by his gran). If you'd simply like to watch Tom Hiddleston do Loki as Owen Wilson, enjoy.
A rare command of the power of communication, and of the interaction of its many forms.