Meet The Miles Team
Auckland, New Zealand
Our South Pacific head office is located in the heart of Auckland CBD
GLOBETROTTERS & TRENDSETTERS
Our experienced team of travel experts help destinations and tourism businesses navigate today’s complex marketing landscape
Chris Adams
Head of Research & Insights | South Pacific Division Head
Chris has worldwide and world class experience in tourism and new technology working in the U.S., New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Chris’ background includes time at Newmans Tours (head of FIT Travel), Jasons Travel Media (where he set up its online business), CEO of Destination Coromandel and at Miles – working with accommodation and destination clients in New Zealand, Asia and North America.
CA Clark
VP Digital Marketing | South Pacific General Manager
Combining his degree in fine arts with broad technology, programming, UX and conversion experience C.A. brings together art and science to create innovative, results-focused marketing solutions for clients. Challenge and precision drive his hobbies as well, C.A. is a motorcycle racer and a marksman.
Kristin Dunne
Director of Destination Strategy
Skye van den Oever
Digital Projects Lead | Senior Account Manager
After extensive travel whilst enlisted in the Australian Air Force, Skye now spends her time developing and managing various digital projects designed to inspire travel and promote sustainable tourism from both the traveler and operator’s viewpoints. Skye specialises in SEO, analytics, social media, email marketing and is also one of our Google DMO Programme specialists here in New Zealand.
Maria Rial
Digital Marketing Specialist
Maria has over 15 years of marketing experience and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK. She is a strategist specialised in building and promoting brand stories through digital marketing including content marketing, social media and influencer marketing. She has facilitated digital capabilities workshops as part of our destination optimisation programmes and helped empower tourism businesses through digital know-how in Samoa, Vanuatu, Puerto Rico and diverse NZ RTOs.
Astral Sligo
Content & Project Manager
Given her name, Astral was born to be involved in the travel industry. In her role as Content & Project Manager for the South Pacific division of Miles, Astral manages the implementation of digital marketing initiatives for national and regional tourism organisations, accommodation providers and other travel-sector clients. Working in SEO, analytics, social media, email marketing, content review, strategy and planning – Astral’s role is to guide clients through the digital marketing landscape.
Alexia Santamaria
Writer
Alexia lives to travel and eat and has managed to specialise in culinary and travel journalism so she can do it for a living. She’s as happy discovering limestone caves in southern Waikato as she is being mesmerised by the Hong Kong skyline or playing with village kids in the Pacific Islands. She believes happiness comes from seeing new things and meeting new people, as they always give you new ways to view the world.