Est. 2001·3,000+ placements · six offices · four regions
Leadership Changecurated sourcedetected 2026-07-29 · confidence 95%

Last updated

Baby Bunting: Leadership Change

CFO Darin Hoekman stepping down after 12 years at ASX-listed Baby Bunting

Source: GN — ASX:BBN Baby Bunting

The leadership read

Leadership transitions often precede broader retail - baby bench-strengthening over the next two quarters.

Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 105.8 (Hot) (down 2.3 month-on-month), Oceania is at steady (-0.1pts) on signal share.

Baby Bunting: 3 signals in the last 90 days; 0.2% of MitchelLake's Oceania signal flow; 3 tracked across 36 days.

MitchelLake in this thematic

Also at Baby Bunting

More signals across Retail - Baby/Children's Goods

Leadership Change · Oceania

SBS

SBS appointed Nikki Rooke as Chief Commercial Officer (from Nine, where she led national sales across television and BVOD) and Uma Oldham as Director of Marketing and Audiences.

Leadership Change · Oceania

Endemol Shine Australia

Endemol Shine Australia appointed Jessie Hughes as Senior Vice President of Innovation, bringing her from Canva and Leonardo.AI. The company simultaneously launched the ESA Innovation Lab, a new division focused on emerging technologies and next-generation content formats.

Leadership Change · Oceania

Illumina

Illumina appointed Susan Martin as General Manager for Australia and New Zealand, bringing 20+ years of MedTech leadership experience from Johnson & Johnson MedTech.

Leadership Change · Oceania

Equinix

Equinix appointed Jarrod Nink as Managing Director for Australia, indicating regional leadership structure or expansion initiative

Leadership Change · Oceania

MiQ

Fiona Roberts, Managing Director of MiQ ANZ, has stepped down after eight years in the role, creating a leadership vacancy.

Leadership Change · Oceania

Rest

Rest has appointed its former chief financial officer to a new role as inaugural chief commercial officer, indicating a strategic shift toward commercial and revenue-focused leadership.

Weekly briefing

Track companies like Baby Bunting — with our analysis

Anyone can set an alert for one company. We send a weekly read on the whole peer set — who's moving, and what it means for leadership. Pick what to follow:

Intelligence powered by Autonodal ↗

Nearby in the record