Melanie Silva is the Managing Director for Google Australia and New Zealand, a role she took up in October 2018. She is based in Sydney. Mel has been with Google for more than eleven years and has held a number of senior leadership positions in Australia and APAC, most recently as Managing Director, Go to Market Strategy & Operations, Google APAC, based in Singapore. Prior to Google, she worked as General Manager at Fairfax Digital’s Direct Access and she has an extensive product and marketing background in Financial Services from companies such as Citibank, ING Direct and AMP. She holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Macquarie University, Diploma of Financial Planning and Diploma of Interactive and Direct Marketing from the Institute of Direct Marketing in the United Kingdom. She is a karaoke fan, amazing wife and mother of two.