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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

The flash, apparently official...

MEDIA RELEASE
25 January 2006



DDB CEO MARTIN O’HALLORAN TAKES UP THE REINS FOR AUSTRALASIA

CEO of DDB New Zealand Group, Martin O’Halloran has been appointed Chairman/CEO of DDB New Zealand and Australia.

DDB is one of the largest communications companies in New Zealand and is the parent company of DDB Advertising, WRC, Mango Communications, Imagination, OMD, MediaWise and Tribal DDB. DDB Australia has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

O’Halloran’s career with DDB spans 20 years, 17 of them in New Zealand – the other three in Australia. He has been CEO of the group for the past four years. In 2004 he was awarded CEO of the year, DDB was named B&T agency of the year and was the leading agency at the 2005 Axis Creative awards.

He is highly regarded within the local advertising community, having been president of CAANZ for four years and currently its vice president.

President of DDB Asia Pacific, Mr John Zeigler, says O’Halloran has done a superb job building the New Zealand DDB business to become one of DDB’s top 5 agencies worldwide. “Marty is one of the best managers we have in the DDB Worldwide network. He has built a leading edge agency that has achieved Asia Pacific regional top three creative status and has a people culture second to no other agency.”

Mr O’Halloran says it’s a great honour to be offered this challenging new role, which sees him assume responsibility for the Australian operation as well as maintaining overall responsibility for the New Zealand business.

“Part of my new challenge will be to continue the growth that’s been experienced in both the New Zealand and Australian businesses to date. We want to sustain our strong regional standing within both markets, while developing further opportunities to generate ongoing business initiatives,” Mr O’Halloran says.

“I believe there will be huge two-way trans-Tasman opportunities for DDB that I will be able to take advantage of in my new role.”

The new role will see O’Halloran based in Sydney but he will spend regular periods in New Zealand. It is expected that a new group managing director will be appointed to DDB New Zealand within the next three months.

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For further information contact:

Martin O’Halloran

Chairman/CEO DDB New Zealand & Australia

021 949 822 or 00612 9363 4809

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Worst kept secret in advertising.

12:52 pm NZDT

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Marty is a top bloke.

7:59 pm NZDT

 

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