Dentsu International: Dentsu taps Nielsen’s Robert Gilby as CEO for Asia Pacific region

Japanese media company community Dentsu Worldwide has named Robert (Rob) Gilby as its chief govt officer for the Asia Pacific area. He joins from Nielsen the place he’s at the moment president of APAC. The place had been vacated by Ashish Bhasin final yr.

Gilby assumes the put up on September 5. He might be primarily based in Singapore and can report back to Wendy Clark, World CEO, Dentsu Worldwide. He will even be a part of the Dentsu Worldwide govt staff.

“Rob is an exceptionally well-rounded chief with a progressive method that deeply understands the way forward for the business and alternatives for progress, for our individuals, our purchasers and our enterprise,” mentioned Clark. “Importantly, he clearly demonstrated his long-term imaginative and prescient, values-based management model and fervour for constructing high-performance, various groups that’s elementary to the best way we do enterprise at Dentsu.”

His appointment follows the worldwide launch of Dentsu Artistic, with Dentsu awarded Asia Pacific Regional Community of the Yr and Dentsu Artistic India named World Company of the Yr at Cannes Lions Competition of Creativity.

“I used to be immediately drawn to Dentsu’s compelling imaginative and prescient with its wealthy heritage as the one holding firm born out of Asia,” Gilby mentioned. “It’s a privilege to be main this area with the world seeking to the Asia Pacific area as its GDP progress is forecasted to stay sturdy, the rising middle-class booms and speedy digitization and funding in homegrown platforms leapfrog current applied sciences. Dentsu’s capability to know individuals higher than anybody else and imaginative and prescient for horizontal creativity coupled with these market circumstances creates an thrilling alternative for manufacturers to thrive.”

Gilby comes with 30 years of expertise within the media and leisure business and has labored in Asia Pacific for over 25 years.

At Nielsen, he was accountable for constructing relationships with key media house owners, manufacturers and companies to ship viewers insights throughout the media ecosystem. Previous to that he was CEO & Founder, Blue Hat Ventures, an funding and advisory agency focussed on figuring out and commercialising high-growth companies within the Digital Media sector in Asia Pacific. He has held non-executive board and advisory roles on the Ministry of Communications & Data, the InfoComm Media Improvement Authority and the Singapore Media Competition.

Up to now he has additionally labored with WarnerMedia and The Walt Disney Firm.