Merger of WPP AUNZ’s Switched On into AKQA completed

The merger between WPP AUNZ agencies Switched On and AKQA is now complete, 12 months after it was announced the two agencies would come together.

Under the new structure, Switched On managing director, Chris Hitchcock, has become the AKQA’s MD of media, reporting into Asia Pacific managing partner Brian Vella.

Hitchcock said aside from a number of hires made in the business, “no other alterations or restructures to the business other than the change in branding” had been made, and that all Switched On employees retained their current titles and remits, under the AKQA name.

AKQA’s MD Chris Hitchcock and Asia Pacific managing partner Brian Vella