Auditor FirmDecisions appoints new AUNZ MD

Global marketing compliance specialist FirmDecisions has appointed Matthew Braid to the role of managing director for its Australia and New Zealand operations. He will report to managing director APAC, Dale Garvie.

Braid joins FirmDecisions with over 20 years’ experience in finance roles within the media and advertising industry. Most recently, Braid was the finance director at Ikon Communications (part of the WPP AUNZ network) and prior to that was finance director at Bohemia Group where he helped oversee the sale of the agency from STW Communications to the M&C Saatchi group.

Braid has also held roles at Foundation, a media agency within the Omnicom Media Group, Publicis Groupe and George Patterson Bates.

Commenting on his appointment, Braid said: “When this rare opportunity came up to join Dale and the team, I couldn’t pass it up.”