Dentsu APAC's chief growth and innovation officer departs

Dentsu APAC’s chief growth and innovation officer Dominic Powers is departing after four years with the agency. He is currently on garden leave.  

During his time as dentsu APAC’s chief growth and innovation officer, Powers was tasked with driving organic revenue growth for clients by identifying innovative solutions to maximise growth opportunities across media, creative and CRM.  

He oversaw the Asia Pacific region’s new business strategy and opportunities within DAN’s existing client base, working with regional teams to grow C-suite relationships as well as the Solutions unit to deliver business value to clients through integrated thinking, strategies and products. 

Prior to this, Powers was with CtrlShift for more than three years, first joining as chief business officer before being promoted to CEO, according to his LinkedIn. He also worked at Epsilon for 14 years and DoubleClick International for more than three years.   

On the other hand, back in July, dentsu announced the dual appointments of Ganga Chirravuri as president, product and development, APAC and Matt Farrington as president, investment and trading, APAC.

These strategic appointments underscore dentsu's commitment to driving innovation and growth through its client solutions across the APAC region. Chirravuri joined dentsu in March 2023 and has been instrumental in delivering a new and improved holistic product stack, elevating the competitiveness of our solutions.

He brings nearly 25 years of experience in product management and technology development and has deep, unmatched knowledge of both media and customer platforms.

In his new role, Ganga will continue to drive the strategic development of dentsu’s digital and data product portfolios, leading a team of talented engineers to build scalable, commercial solutions that are customisable to client, brand and market needs and drive incremental performance improvement of client’s ad dollars.

Meanwhile, Farrington brings over 20 years of experience across modern and emerging media ecosystems having worked at agencies including GroupM and Omnicom, occupying leadership roles across both Australia and Singapore.

He joins dentsu from Yahoo where he was the Head of Partnerships & Investment, APAC and led the investment strategy for Yahoo Ad Tech across the region, including establishing multi-market holding group partnerships and overseeing all deal and investment activities.

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