David Gerrie Joins Born Creators As CEO

David Gerrie Joins Born Creators As CEO

David Gerrie, most recently COO at Essence has joined Born Creators as CEO, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Gerrie was at AKQA Media for over 12 years where he was COO of Ikon Group. He became COO at Essence after WPP merged AKQA media into GroupM last year – making it part of the the Essence Group.

His departure from Essence comes as WPP merges the firm with MediaCom to create EssenceMediacom .  

EssenceMediacom is due to officially launch early this year. Back in December it named PHD’s Stephanie Douglas-Neal as its managing director for Sydney.

Based on Gerrie’s LinkedIn profile, he left Essence in October last year and is taking up the reigns at Born Creators this month.




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