DDB Group Aotearoa poaches Google’s Matty Burton for group CCO role
DDB Group Aotearoa NZ has appointed Matty Burton as its first group chief creative officer. He joins from Google where he was the APAC region’s creative chief based in Sydney.
The new role will see Burton leading the creative output across the group’s four agencies in New Zealand, DDB, Track, Tribal and Mango.
Burton has two decades of industry experience, which has included founding Special Group’s Australian offices, leading TBWA in Australia and spending time at globally renowned Droga5 in New York. He has previously worked in New Zealand when he was creative group head at Saatchi & Saatchi NZ.
