WPP AUNZ creates senior data investment management role

AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND — Ben Dixon (pictured), currently CEO Australia and New Zealand, Kantar and former MD of Millward Brown ANZ, has been appointed by WPP AUNZ to the new role of CEO data investment management. 

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Agencies within Dixon's new remit include Millward Brown, TNS, AMR, ORU, Kantar Vermeer, Added Value, Colmar Brunton Australia, TNS New Zealand and Colmar Brunton New Zealand. 

Alongside this new role, WPP AUNZ has also hired its first CEO public relations and public affairs, Kieran Moore. Moore is CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations Australia and will spend half of her time with Ogilvy PR and the rest of her time on the new portfolio. 

Dixon’s new position is effective immediately while Moore takes up her new role from June 1. 

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