FCB New Zealand CEO Dan Martin departs agency after only 11 months in the role
FCB New Zealand has mutually agreed with Dan Martin, CEO of FCB New Zealand, that he will be leaving the agency with immediate effect.
Martin first joined FCB in August last year from the UK, where he was chief operating officer of Ogilvy & Mather, London. Prior to his tenure with Ogilvy he worked for agencies such as Fallon, WCRS, Lowe Lintas and JWT. His clients have included a roll call of premier companies and brands such as Smirnoff, Adidas, Rolls-Royce, Vodafone, Heineken, Unilever, Bacardi and MINI.
Says Bryan Crawford, chairman of FCB New Zealand: “We thank Dan for his contribution as CEO of FCB New Zealand and wish him the best of luck in his next chapter.”
A recruitment process for a new CEO will commence shortly.
FCB New Zealand’s management team will continue to lead the agency in the interim.
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I never met him, but his departure caught me by surprise.
Sure FCB has hit a minor rough patch, but surely not enough to roll out the plastic carpet?
This stuff never happens to FCB.
The leadership team in that agency have to ask themselves if the guy was set up to succeed, or set up to fail. His credentials and career are impressive. However in FCB you have an agency with a team who haven’t changed in years…and maybe don’t like change or the people who are change? Clear case of host body rejecting donor organ.
Considering what happened, the FCB team have been remarkably restrained with their anonymous comments. So far.