Olivia Sydney Heidrich (she/her)

Olivia Sydney Heidrich has a strong background in communications and public relations, spanning over 11 years. Olivia Sydney is currently working as the Head of Communications at Casella Family Brands, a position they have held since December 2022. Prior to this, Olivia worked as a Freelance Public Relations, Brand & Marcomm Consultant, specializing in wine, food, and drinks business, from February 2022 to December 2022.

Before their freelance work, Olivia served as an Account Director at Dialogue PR + Communications from March 2021 to February 2022. Olivia Sydney also gained experience as a Senior Publicist (contract) at Destination NSW from November 2020 to March 2021.

Olivia's previous roles include working at Wine Australia, where they served as a Global Marketing Communications Manager from February 2019 to March 2020, and as a PR Manager from July 2018 to February 2019. Olivia Sydney also worked as a Freelance Account Director at FleishmanHillard / Eleven part of TBWA from October 2017 to June 2018.

Earlier in their career, Olivia had freelance roles as a PR professional at Leo Burnett in 2017 and as a Publicist at The Bravery from 2014 to 2017. Olivia Sydney began their career at DMCPR Media in November 2011 as a Publicist and later worked as a Communications and Production Coordinator at Scout, Fashion Forecasting Agency, Surry Hills from June 2010 to August 2011.

Olivia Sydney Heidrich completed their Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science degree at the University of Sydney from 2013 to 2016, specializing in Social Sciences. In 2019, they obtained their WSET Level 2 certification in Wine Steward/Sommelier from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust. Additionally, Olivia received the WSET 2 certification from the same institution in March 2019. No further information is available regarding their education at St. Scholasticas College.