WPP AUNZ chair Robert Mactier on what next for the group post takeover

Following yesterday’s vote from minority shareholders in favour of WPP plc’s takeover bid for the remaining shares in WPP AUNZ, the resounding question is once the scheme is completed is ‘what’s next?’.

Industry leaders have speculated to Mumbrella that with the dissolution of the board, Jens Monsees’ role as WPP AUNZ CEO and managing director will be drawn into question. No outposts of WPP plc have CEOs, but instead have country managers, and transitioning Monsees into a country manager seems unlikely.

Sources believe that Jens will leave the business, and instead a member of the WPP team from London will be ‘parachuted in’, to take up a country manager role.

Robert Mactier