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GroupM owned Essence, a global data and measurement-driven media agency, today announced the appointment of T. Gangadhar as the company’s CEO for APAC. Gangadhar, or “Gangs”, succeeds Essence’s Global CEO Kyoko Matsushita, who previously served as APAC CEO, Gangs will be responsible for driving continued client-centric innovation in data, analytics,

Australian based start-up Renewtrak has appointed Mathew Cagney to the role of CEO. The appointment follows the elevation of investor and BridgeClimb founder, Paul Cave, to its board. Renewtrak is an automated and intelligent platform that allows technology companies to take control of their recurring revenue streams, automate renewals, upsell

Kmart Group has appointed a former Amazon VP to oversee its online retailer Catch, which the retail giant says is outperforming its expectations since acquiring it last year. Former Amazon Vice President Pete Sauerborn will next week begin as Catch managing director. Sauerborn has spent the last decade at the

Adobe today announced Simon Tate as its Asia Pacific president. Tate joins from Salesforce where he spent six years as APAC senior vice president. From May, Tate will lead Adobe’s business across the region and report to Adobe president, international, Paul Robson. Webinar: The role of the CMO at the

Red Hat today announced Paul Cormier as its new president and CEO, effective immediately. Cormier takes the reins of the open source giant following long time CEO Jim Whitehurst’s move to new Red Hat owner IBM earlier this year. Cormier joined Red Hat in 2001 and is credited with pioneering

Fintech Wisr has appointed former CBA general manager of unsecured risk Joanne Edwards to the newly created role chief risk and data officer.  The company said the new role was created to focus on credit risk optimisation and data analytics of its scaling loan book and Financial Wellness Ecosystem and

Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) has appointed Patrick Darcy to the role of Chief Data & Technology Officer.  With extensive expertise spanning adtech, data-driven marketing, analytics and programmatic ecosystems, Darcy joins DAN from Cadreon Australia where he’s held a number of leadership roles – most recently CEO.  Webinar:

Swift Media has appointed Pippa Leary as its CEO effective from August, she was previously the commercial director of Nine’s digital sales team. Current director Darren Smorgon has also been appointed non-executive chairman. Leary spent more than 20 years with Nine Entertainment Company and Fairfax Media, before moving to the

Quantcast, which owns and operates the world’s largest audience insights and measurement platform on the open internet, has appointed Craig Bonser as the Commercial Director of Australia and New Zealand and Richard Knott as Business Development Director for Asia Pacific. The move follows a string of local promotions and new

Michelle Gallaher has been appointed chief executive officer of ShareRoot. The newly installed board has also flagged a shift in company strategy will be released in the coming weeks. Gallaher has been promoted from managing director of The Social Science (TSS), a STEM specialist social media marketing agency co-founded by