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Welcome to Merkle Aotearoa

We’ve been bringing our customers closer to their customers since ages ago. Today we use Data, Cloud Platforms, and Experience Design to drive sustainable business growth.

Local leadership

01 - Kirsty Muddle
Kirsty Muddle
Chief Executive Officer, Practices & Products, Dentsu ANZ

With a focus on bringing modern creativity to life, Kirsty finds innovative ways to help clients grow their brand and form deeper, more meaningful connections with their customers. She leads a team of passionate people across creative, strategy, production, earned attention, digital experience, entertainment, public relations, content, social media, indigenous affairs, and government relations.

Kirsty started her career in Econometrics at a WPP agency in London and still maintains her love for the interplay between humans and data. She was one of the Founding Partners and CEO of cummins&partners before joining dentsu. Kirsty has been awarded Women of the Year and Executive of the Year twice, sits on the Board of the Australian council of Advertising (ACA) and Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA). She also appears on ABC’s Gruen.

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02 - Paul Whittaker
Paul Whittaker
Chief Commercial Officer, Merkle ANZ and Managing Director Merkle Australia

Paul Whittaker is the Chief Commercial Officer, Merkle ANZ and Managing Director Merkle Australia. Working across Merkle in both Australia and New Zealand, Paul is responsible for executing the Strategy and growth of the business, positioning Merkle ANZ as the leading CX experience transformation consultancy delivering people-centred technology solutions that are rooted in data, inspired by design and guided by strategy. In Paul’s role he sits on both the Merkle ANZ Executive Leadership Team and works across the broader Executive Team to translate strategy into action, ensuring short-term performance while also setting up the business to achieve longer-term financial results and business objectives.

Paul is a commercially focused and experienced leader with a proven track record of building high-performing teams. He believes business is about people; whether this be our colleagues or the customers we work for, or our partners, for whom we deliver outcomes. It is this that makes doing business real for Paul.

Paul has a varied background as a Management Consultant across a wide range of businesses and industries, working in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Paul ran the Salesforce practice at Merkle Aotearoa for approximately five years, establishing Merkle Aotearoa as the leading Salesforce Implementation Partner in New Zealand. Following this, Paul was the GM of Operations at Merkle Aotearoa, before stepping into the Executive Director Operations across both Merkle and dentsu Aotearoa.  Paul’s most recent role prior to becoming the Chief Commercial Officer for Merkle ANZ was as the Managing Director of Merkle Aotearoa.

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Alice Hopkinson
Alice Hopkinson
Head of Salesforce Growth and Capability, Merkle Aotearoa

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Alice Hopkinson
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Alister Lilley
Alister Lilley
Head of Architecture Southern and Commerce, Merkle Aotearoa

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Alister Lilley
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Angela Meads
Angela Meads
Head of Southern Delivery, Merkle Aotearoa

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Gareth Reason
Gareth Reason
Practice Director, Merkle Aotearoa

Gareth Reason is the Practice Director of Merkle Aotearoa. Leading a team of more than 150 across Aotearoa, Gareth is responsible for driving the growth of the business and positioning Merkle Aotearoa as the leading CX transformation consultancy delivering people-centred technology solutions that are rooted in data, inspired by design and guided by strategy. In Gareth’s role he sits on both the dentsu Aotearoa and Merkle ANZ Leadership Teams. 

Gareth is a commercially focused and experienced leader with a proven track record of building high-performing teams. He believes business is about people; he brings a strong focus to capability enablement and the growth and development of the team to stay close to Merkle’s customers’ needs and stay ahead of ever-evolving technology transformation trends and requirements.

Gareth has been part of the Merkle (formerly Davanti) team for 13 years, starting as Project Director and moving on to various leadership roles spanning Engagement, Delivery and Digital Transformation.  With more than 25 years’ consultancy experience working for leading global and local consultancies, Gareth has worked in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and the USA across numerous industries, including Telecommunications/Media, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Banking/Insurance, Government, Consulting, Engineering and Legal Services. This breadth of experience gives Gareth a deep appreciation of the best practices and technology being adopted across a wide range of industries and a passion for helping our customers get closer to their customers.

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Greg Brown
Greg Brown
Head of Growth Southern, Merkle Aotearoa

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Hayden Stubbington
Hayden Stubbington
Head of Digital Capability, Merkle Aotearoa

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Polly Chapple
Polly Chapple
Head of Northern Delivery, Merkle Aotearoa

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Rosalyn Ng
Rosalyn Ng
Head of Architecture - Northern, Merkle Aotearoa

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Auckland
Level 4, 68 Sale Street
Auckland Central
+ 64 9 909 4701
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Wellington
Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay
Wellington Central
+ 64 9 909 4701
hello@merkle.com
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