Nick Garrett, a former CEO of Clemenger BBDO, is joining the Deloitte Digital team in Sydney.
He joins Adrian Mills and Matt Lawson as the third partner in Deloitte Creative, connecting creativity across the Deloitte business and client base.
“I am hugely excited to join Deloitte Digital and partner with Adrian and Matt," he says.
"Their vision to solve bigger problems with creative thinking is the right thing at the right time, and the perfect opportunity for me personally to jump back into the industry.
“I have loved the last eighteen months working for myself consulting across a huge variety of clients, from large, established organisations through to up-and-coming start-ups. But there are some things that instantly feel right, and joining the Deloitte Digital team is one of them."
Deloitte Digital has more than 800 digital and creative specialists across Australia.
In his time as CEO of Colenso BBDO, the agency nearly trebled in size, while twice achieving the most creative agency in the world accolade.
As CEO of Clemenger BBDO Australia, Garrett helped diversify their offer, and grew the business significantly. During his tenure he also helped push the high creative standards the agency set itself, becoming the only Australian agency in history to be named ‘Creative Agency of the Year’ at Cannes and D&AD, while also being named global creative agency of the year and the world’s most effective in the WARC 100.
Adrian Mills, Partner, Deloitte Creative: “Matt and I have been looking for a Sydney-based partner to make this duo a trio for the last three years. And in our opinion, with Nick we’re getting the most accomplished creative business leader in the country, which is quite humbling. To have Nick on the same team, working toward the same goal at a time when we have so much momentum, is a step-change for the creative business and Deloitte Australia.”
Deloitte Digital APAC Chief Creative Officer, Matt Lawson: “Nick Garrett is a revolutionary, and it’s an understatement to say that I’m ecstatic about him joining us as a partner and what that means for Deloitte Australia. Deloitte is focussed on creating a new type of growth for clients, new growth that produces profit through purpose and innovation, and scale that’s sustainable, yet abundant. Nick’s the perfect person to help champion this change.
Deloitte Experience and Marketing partner, Angela Robinson, said: “Nick joins our team at a critical moment where we see creativity as an all of Deloitte Digital play. We have infused it into our Design, Technology and Strategy practices and it is a key differentiator for our clients. Creative excellence lifts our impact beyond delivering a technology platform to solving our client’s most important challenges in a way where it adds the most value to their business and helps differentiate them.“
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