Deloitte Digital elevates Nick Garrett to global commerce and marketing practice lead

After a year with leading digital creative consultancy Deloitte Digital, Nick Garrett has been appointed to a global role heading up its marketing and commerce division.

The decision came from Deloitte Digital global CEO Sam Roddick.

Garrett joined Deloitte over a year ago as creative partner, Deloitte Creative to lead the growing business from Sydney. Garrett, who departed Clemenger BBDO over three years ago, joined Adrian Mills and Matt Lawson as the third partner in Deloitte Creative, focussed on connecting creativity across the Deloitte business and client base.

Garrett is best known for his love of ‘ideas and the creative product’ and he is the only Australian agency CEO to lead two creative agencies to the number 1 ranking in the world – and involved in work that has won close to 200 Cannes Lions. 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. Garrett, who transferred to Clemenger BBDO Melbourne from Colenso BBDO Auckland in 2015, helped diversify its 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.

Deloitte Digital’s reputation as a creative, technology and marketing consultancy continues to grow with the brand achieving a leadership position in the recent Gartner Global Marketing Magic Quadrant, winning Consultancy of the Year from Campaign Asia, enjoying a successful Cannes Lions result and winning Campaign Brief’s The Work Australian Creative Agency of the Year.