Mary Covatta is an accomplished marketing and public relations professional who began her career in Australia in 1984. Early on, she worked in brand management with Coles Myer, Australia’s leading retail group.

From there, she joined Caribiner International now Jack Morton. As General Manager in charge of business development, Ms. Covatta worked with international clients such as ING (Macquarie Bank), Morgan Stanley, HSBC, Nortel Networks, the Wall Street Journal-Asia and Fortunemagazine developing and managing marketing programmes in the Asia Pacific region.

In 2002, building on her broad experience with international companies, Ms. Covatta established Covatta Communications, a full-service marketing and communications firm headquartered in Hong Kong and specialising in access to global markets for multinational clients in China, Hong Kong, Australia, Europe and North America.