JC Decaux announces new leadership lineup, making three APN Outdoor executives redundant
Following the approved merger of JC Decaux and APN Outdoor, the out of home company has announced its new leadership lineup and made three APN Outdoor executives redundant.
Steve O’Connor, CEO of the combined JC Decaux and APN Outdoor business has appointed Andrew Hines as chief operating officer, Brendan O’Neil as chief financial officer, Max Eburne as chief commercial officer, Jeremy Howe as chief strategy and innovation officer, Essie Wake as chief marketing officer and Mike Watkins as New Zealand country head.
The leadership team came into effect yesterday.
The new leadership team came into effect yesterday
Meanwhile, APN Outdoor’s general manager of people, culture and performance Annaliese van Riet, CFO Philip Knox and general manager of sales Mark Fairhurst have all been made redundant.
Last month APN Outdoor’s CEO James Warburton announced he would be leaving the company following the completion of JC Decaux’s acquisition.
It will mark the end of a busy 10 months for the executive, who joined APN Outdoor after four years as CEO of V8 Supercars.
Charlotte Valente, APN Outdoor’s general manager of marketing, announced her departure on Wednesday.
JC Decaux first offered to buy APN Outdoor for $1.1 billion in June this year.
“I am confident that we have the right combination of talent, skills and experience in our new leadership team who will now work together to create a market leading out-of-home company in Australia and New Zealand.
“As the world’s largest out-of-home advertising company, we can bring all the benefits a global brand can offer and, with the addition of APN Outdoor’s scale and expertise, behave like the market leader that we are. The leadership team and I will work closely to combine our talent, capabilities, products and technology to deliver our clients a world-class offering,” O’Connor said in a statement.
Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.
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Wow they made the only two females executives redundant and one who is heavily pregnant?
Where are all the seniorwomen at JC Decaux?
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They made four people redundant. Two male and two female.
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Good to see diversity isn’t an issue in outdoor? We need to try harder gentleman!
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How can we have a crack here ? The best people in the best jobs by the looks of things to me . This industry loves to find a negative , crazy !!!
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Outdoor has always been the Wild West, ruled by pink shirted, grey suited cowboys.
No place for diversity around Fitzroy St!
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Essie Wake has the smarts of 3 women, so should balance out….
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Everyone who’s worked in this market for a fair amount of time will know that the best people were retained. The JC Decaux acquisition has been received extremely positively by the staff of APN and are excited by the challenge ahead.
As for the naysayers and/or people wanting to troll; I’m sure their healthy payout for what was a very short tenure will go some way to making them feel better about themselves.
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