impact.com creates first Director of People and Culture, Asia Pacific

Tanya Suna, Director of People and Culture, APAC, Impact.com

impact.com, a partnership management platform, has promoted Tanya Suna to the newly created post of Director of People and Culture, APAC to support its growth across Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China and S.E Asia and to prepare for its launch into India in 2023.

Tanya joined impact.com three and a half years ago as People Development Manager, APAC and has over 20 years’ experience in digital, media and tech startups.

Tanya to head impact.com’s regional human resource

Tanya will be responsible for the region’s HR, people development, employee experience and rewards function as impact.com kicks off 2022 with a raft of new hires and promotions.

In July 2021, the company closed a $150M round of funding at a $1.5bn valuation in preparation for an IPO, part of which was ear-marked to enable impact.com to double the number of its employees across the Asia Pacific (APAC) Region in 2022.

“Tanya has been instrumental in helping to create and nurture our entrepreneurial, dynamic, caring and high-performance team culture and ensuring this culture remains strong as we expand into new markets,” said Adam Furness, APAC Managing Director at impact.com.

“She understands all the facets which affect the employee experience and is the ideal candidate to support our team during this period of dynamic growth.”

Commenting on her new position at the organisation, Tanya Suna, impact.com’s Director of People and Culture, APAC said, “Our people are critical to impact.com’s success.”

“In 2022 we have bold expansion plans and will look to double our APAC team this year. With hybrid and remote working environments, it is more important than ever to ensure we are supporting and developing our employees so they can do their best work from anywhere.”

“While bringing in opportunities for team connection. I’m thrilled to be on this journey.”

Impact.com announces more structural changes

Impact.com has also promoted Ayaan Mohamud from Regional Marketing Director, APAC to the newly created position of Regional Vice President of Marketing, APAC with a remit to further expand the impact.com marketing team across the region.

She has appointed Laurence Nelmes to the newly created role of Marketing Executive for ANZ and is still actively recruiting for another team member in Sydney.

Additional hires have been made to add bench strength to their local customer success, partnership and sales teams. Deborah Kan joins as Partnership Development Manager, ANZ after a two-year stint as Account Manager at Are Media’s BeautyVoices.

Hayley Tse joins as Customer Success Manager, ANZ after three years’ affiliate agency experience at Acceleration Partners and iProspect; Kim Sippel joins as Corporate Account Executive, APAC from web governance SaaS company, Monsido.

Diana Letran has been appointed Pre-sales Solution Architect after a 10-year career across digital ad operations, sales, trading, and most recently as Lead Ad Operations at Finder.