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.