Contributors

Nick Sargent

Nick Sargent is Head of ANZ Delivery Advertising at Uber Advertising, leading a team that looks after the business' QSR customers. 

With almost 20 years of strategic sales, advertising, and digital media experience, Nick is a seasoned leader in the industry. He spent the last three years establishing and leading the restaurants advertising business at Uber Advertising for Australia & New Zealand. 

Prior to joining Uber Advertising, Nick spent nine years at Google as the Industry Manager across the QSR, Retail, Tech & Telcos industries, leading Google partnerships teams for Australian enterprise businesses.

Nidhi Singh

Nidhi, Co-Founder of Samosa Singh, brings over a decade of experience in sales, business development, and corporate strategy. Before launching the company, she led Business Development for a US-based healthcare firm, where she developed expertise in global commercial operations and market expansion.

Driven by a passion for healthy, hygienic food, Nidhi left her corporate career to create Samosa Singh with the vision to modernize India’s snack culture. Recognising the cultural importance of snack foods, she aimed to provide accessible, high-quality Indian snacks like samosas in a clean, fast-food format.

Her experience has been pivotal in Samosa Singh's growth. Nidhi led an initiative that successfully reached thousands of customers in one day, driving both online and offline sales. With a focus on health-conscious, hygienic food, Nidhi's goal is to dominate the Indian snack market, blending tradition with convenience and quality.

Philip Harrison

Philip Harrison has dedicated five decades and an entire career to the advancement of hospitality design, with a client list that spans Hilton, TRYP by Wyndham, Harrods, Honest Burger, Slim Chicken, Giraffe, Chipotle, Whitbread, Mitchell & Butler, Browns, and All Bar One to name just a few.

In 1989, Philip founded his own design agency, Harrison, starting with only his car as his office space. Philip’s devotion to impactful, durable, and profitable design-led solutions has helped ensure the continual growth of Harrison and the success of growing the company to where it is today. Not limited to the UK, Philip has overseen the opening of two additional offices globally in Dallas, US, and Melbourne, Australia, allowing the team to design spaces on nearly every continent and draw on many new sources of inspiration from different countries and cultures globally.

Ritam Gandhi

Ritam Gandhi is the Founder and Director of Studio Graphene – a London-based company that specialises in the development of blank canvas tech products, including apps, websites, AR, IoT and more. The company has completed over 250 projects since first being started in 2014, working with both new entrepreneurs and product development teams within larger companies.

Vicky Lalwani

Vick Lalwani is the General Manager at Adrenalin, a leading digital product agency. He leads cross-functional teams across design, technology, growth and delivery to help ambitious brands launch and optimise digital platforms that drive measurable business impact. Vick has over 20 years of experience partnering with some of Australia’s largest brands to deliver complex digital implementations and transformation programs that enable growth, enhance customer experience and support long-term business goals at scale.