Vanessa Lawrence

Chief Content Officer at Linkby

Vanessa Lawrence is Chief Content Officer at global ad-tech startup Linkby, where she leads the strategy across its network of 200+ premium publishers in North America, the UK, Australia and Singapore. She was previously the Publisher of Pedestrian Group, Australia’s largest youth-focused publisher, where she led a team of 55 across editorial and e-commerce for titles including VICE, Refinery29, Business Insider, POPSUGAR, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and Kotaku. A journalist with more than 17 years’ experience, she has previously held positions as Deputy Editor of QANTAS Magazine and its travel inspiration website Travel Insider, Head of Editorial at PEDESTRIAN.TV, Features Director at ELLE Australia and News Editor at Grazia magazine. She is a regular on industry panels and podcasts.