Rex Hunt, James Swanwick and Lisa Bond (CrocMedia), Alex (BSI), Hutchi, Tim and Marcy Davis (The Greatest Generation Foundation), Rob Davies(Trader Vics) Catherine and Peter Whtfield and Ivan Kaye (BSI)
Crocmedia helps businesses get noticed in the USA and Australia. With offices in Los Angeles, New York and Melbourne, Crocmedia will help you develop and implement international marketing strategies with in-country media, trends and business expertise.
Staffed by innovative, knowledgeable, passionate and driven people with multi-country experience, Crocmedia develops and executes marketing communications strategies that will help launch and grow your business.
Founders Craig Hutchison and James Swanwick are two of Australia's leading journalists and broadcasters offering clients access to their extensive media network and valuable strategic insights. Services include public relations, media training, TV distribution, marketing and management.
Crocmedia currently services clients in sectors including media, sports, technology, telecommunications and textiles
CRAIG HUTCHISON, DIRECTOR (NEW YORK/MELBOURNE)
Hutchy began his career on Newscorp's Australian newspapers, where he covered politics, police rounds, industrial relations, business, law and sport.
He then moved into television where he won more than a dozen awards for his sports coverage on the Seven Network.
Hutchison won the prestigious Quill award for outstanding excellence in journalism in 2002 and was highly commended again in 2005.
He has hosted and fronted several sports and entertainment programs and broadcasted AFL football on TV and radio and has created and produced reality TV for the Seven Network.
In October 2005 Hutchison moved to New York to establish a radio syndication business and appeared on Australian stations 2GB, 5AA, 6PR, 4BC, Triple M and 3AW. He is also a columnist for the Sunday Age newspaper, contributes to Inside Sport magazine and hosts 3AW football.
Hutchy divides his time between the United States (six months a year) and Australia (Melbourne).
JAMES SWANWICK, DIRECTOR (NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES)
James Swanwick is a Los Angeles and New York-based print, radio and television journalist.
Swanwick began his career at The Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane from 1993-1999 where he reported on business and finance, industrial relations, police rounds, entertainment and state and federal politics.
He won the prestigious Queensland Media Award in 1996 for his interview and expose on Pauline Hanson, one of Australia’s most publicized and controversial political figures.
Swanwick reported for Sky Sports in London from 1999-2003, covering the 1999 Rugby World Cup and Cricket World Cup and several Wimbledon tennis championships and British Opens.
Swanwick moved to Los Angeles in 2003, writing for leading newspapers and magazines throughout Australia and Britain including Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, Melbourne’s Herald Sun, Ralph, Loaded, NOW, Cosmopolitan, More and The Word.
He now divides his time between New York and Los Angeles and does a weekly radio show on Cleveland’s Q104 station (Ohio) where he reports the latest news from Hollywood. He can also be heard weekly on the Nova radio network throughout Australia.