Collaborators/Contributors

Across The Verge delivers inspired results because the people behind the brand are intelligent, creative and strive to be the best. We collaborate with a fantastic range of elite professionals to create a network that offers our clients excellent services across the marketing spectrum. Have a look at who’s making your marketing happen:

Natalia Padgen – Managing Director

Natalia Padgen – Managing Director The founder and Managing Director of Across The Verge, Natalia is the lifeblood of the business. With 9 year’s experience in marketing, advertising and sales, she started Across The Verge in 2008 to focus on the creative and strategic side of marketing and deliver tailored, strategic solutions to SMEs. Natalia works across every aspect of the business to fuel her passion, share her expertise and work towards her goal of assisting other businesses achieve their marketing objectives to result in growth.

Susan Popovski – Marketing and PR Coordinator

Susan Popovski – Marketing and PR Coordinator Susan loves helping businesses grow through great marketing and clear communication. Throughout her 10 years experience she has worked in various industries and with many different clients. Her experience spans the full marketing spectrum from planning through to copywriting, campaigns and implementation. She has a Bachelor or Business, with majors in Marketing and Accounting, a diploma in copywriting and social media marketing qualifications, and loves to help clients any way she can. Her passion lies in creating great content for clients as she believes it is clear communication to the right audience that is the key to business success.

Kim Last

Kim Last Kim has the experience, the skills and the special twinkle in her eye to bring any design project to life. With over 13 years of industry experience and a Diploma in Graphic Design and Multimedia, Kim is adept at translating designs effectively to work across a range of media formats. While her background has a strong focus on print advertising and publishing, Kim has evolved with the market to become an expert in Facebook branding design. Whether you are starting a brand from scratch, rebranding or rolling an existing brand out across multiple disciplines, Kim is your go-to girl.

Debbie Hester

Debbie is a designer with a truly eclectic skill set and bags of talent. Graduating in 2001 with a Diploma in Graphic Design, she received a High Distinction and was awarded top student for the entire Arts faculty. During her career to date she has worked across a range of industries for clients big and small. Her areas of expertise include brand identity and collateral development, pre-press, booklet and book design, web graphics and corporate documents. Debbie’s passions lie in illustrative work, name prints and logo design.

Amy Chiu

Amy Chiu Amy is a little pocket rocket that is known for developing stunning designs that are on message and cut through the media clutter. She started her career straight from COFA with 6 years at Avant Card Freecard Media where she mastered the art of print design and pre-press. From there she moved into product development and packaging that allowed her creative flair to soar to new heights working in 3D. Both creative and ambitious, Amy works with clients across a range of industries and genres. Her work always exceeds client expectations and infuses a bit of beauty into the world.

Melitza Liu

Melitza Liu Melitza specialises in total design and print production management. A client’s dream, she believes in a collaborative work ethic and a commitment to bringing out the best design results for the client’s needs. From over 13 years of permanent and freelance work she has developed a comprehensive and diverse portfolio primarily in print advertising, branding and business solutions. Meltiza has an honours degree in Visual Communications from the University of Technology Sydney and has developed her skills and passion further by following creative blogs and exploring new techniques in her own illustration style.

Gretel Khan – Photographer

Gretel Khan Gretel Khan is a self-employed mother of two, working for a commercial photographer, freelancing for agencies and running her own business, Vivid eye. Whether it is in edgy black & white or striking colour, it has become her passion to capture people in both business & personal spheres, producing beautiful, strong, engaging and often quite creative and surprising images. Gretel has worked with agencies and a renowned commercial & advertising photographer that has provided the opportunity for her to develop new ways of working and allowing her deliver shot after shot of pure brilliance that her subjects love.

Sergio Jaramillo

Sergio Jaramillo Sergio is a great go-to web expert with a wealth of experience. His career has seen him design html and flash websites, animated banners, email and multimedia campaigns. His keen eye and attention to detail ensure that his work leaps off the screen and exceeds client expectations while his flexible attitude sees him sliding in with marketing plans of all sorts. Sergio is the one to ask for all things web.