Ant Melder
Ant Melder
Creative Partner
Cocogun
AUSTRALIA
Biography
Ant has decades of experience working with iconic global brands, purpose-driven organisations, and tech start-ups. Across world class agencies in London and Sydney, he’s helped to launch products, grow categories and drive unprecedented sales. Along the way, his provocative, disruptive and culture-impacting work has won almost every advertising award there is to win – but he's most proud of the Anti-Slavery Australia Freedom award, for Cocogun's contribution to fighting modern slavery.
A champion of diversity in the industry, Ant hosts Brown Riot podcast, which celebrates diverse creative and business leaders, is a co-founder of the #Onlyoneintheroom collective, and of the Cocogun Scholarship for Indigenous Creatives.
Ant is also an acclaimed artist who exhibits his work under the @RubbishFantastic banner.