SODA COMMUNICATIONS - Key Persons


Anna Symes

Job Titles:
  • Account Director
At Soda, we push the boundaries and work to always exceed your expectations. We're passionate PR professionals that love to be involved, no matter the task.

Bella Hill

Job Titles:
  • Account Coordinator
The team at Soda does their best to make everything efficient and easy so that I am able to work stress free.

Caitlyn Witherington

Job Titles:
  • Senior Account Manager - Digital and Marketing
We live and breathe communications, and everything we do is geared to strengthen our clients' reputations and increase their public brand awareness. There's no better feeling than securing a great piece of media coverage for a client - it never gets old!

Chriss Mannix

Job Titles:
  • Director, Melbourne
Chriss has more than 20 years experience in public relations, working with some of Australia's biggest and most renowned brands in both a consulting and in-house capacity. Chriss leads the corporate communications and issues management side of the business, providing proactive and reactive consultation to leading pharmaceutical brands, tourism groups and industry bodies in Australia and New Zealand. In the consumer PR space, Chriss thrives on the challenge of creating news and newsworthy platforms. She is experienced in national, trans-Tasman and global campaigns, sponsorship leverage, issues and crisis management, media relations, events and activations, including local and global press events and junkets. With a Bachelor of Arts (Public Relations) from RMIT University, Chriss continues to contribute to the public relations community as a guest lecturer and an on-staff tutor for the RMIT Masters of Advertising course (Globalisation Theory). PR isn't just about fancy events and luxury launches. We'll treat your business as our own and work to provide creativity, accountability, return on investment and results that will knock your socks off.

Dani Lombard

Job Titles:
  • Director, Sydney
Leading the Soda Communications team in Sydney is consumer PR veteran, Dani Lombard. With almost two decades of local and international consumer PR experience, Dani spent the last 11 years running boutique consumer lifestyle agency, Dani Lombard Public Relations. After admiring each other's work from afar and working on a few projects together, Dani and Chriss made the decision to join forces and merge their two agencies into one. From the outset Dani has been committed to working with brands she is passionate about and truly believes in, with a strong focus on organisations that have a positive impact on the world. Her team's experience spans across beauty, health and wellness, fitness, food and wine, local government, not-for-profit, consumer technology and much more. Dani holds of Bachelor of Media from Macquarie University. At Soda we love a challenge and always rise to the occasion. Becoming something of an expert in what you do, so we can show you our expertise in what we do, comes with hard work and smart strategies which we always deliver.

Ellen McIver

Job Titles:
  • Account Manager
We're a small team with big ideas that genuinely love what we do. While we'll never say no to glitz and glamour, everything we do is always backed by hard work, and careful strategic planning.

Hannah Heather

Job Titles:
  • Senior Account Director
Innovative and compelling PR campaigns are our bread and butter. No two days are the same at Soda and there's nothing this talented bunch can't tackle!

Keryn O'Donnell

Job Titles:
  • Account Director
PR is more than media, it's about building integrated strategies to support your business objectives. It's about clever storytelling, to engage, excite and inspire audiences, building brand trust and driving awareness along the way.

Sophie Lever

Job Titles:
  • Account Executive
At Soda, we check our egos at the door. We're ready to roll up our sleeves and get the job done. We're passionate about our clients and their successes feel like ours.

Venus Landero

Job Titles:
  • Account Manager
Our team is full of passionate PR professionals, dedicated to making our clients happy. We are proud of the work we achieve and strive to attain PR success and business growth no matter the task.