Updated: Edelman shakes-up leadership team as Michelle Hutton handed wider regional role

Edelman Australia is replacing Michelle Hutton as chief executive after she was handed responsibility for regional client and growth functions as part of a wider shake-up of its senior leadership team.

The restructure has seen group managing director of Edelman Australia, Susan Redden Makatoa, given the additional role of APAC head of corporate, while managing director of integrated services in Australia, Fern Canning-Brook, will take the newly created role of executive vice president of integrated client solutions for APAC.

Michelle Hutton has spent more than decade with Edelman