Clemenger Group: returning Strahan Wallis eyes acquisitions

Clemenger Group: returning Strahan Wallis eyes acquisitions
Daniel Dunkley
A tumultuous 12 months saw a throng of overseas Kiwis rush to get back home in 2020, but for Strahan Wallis, the chief executive of advertising and communications group Clemenger, the return to New Zealand was a little bittersweet.The executive from Raglan had just completed three-and-a-half years transforming the fortunes of communications firm Porter Novelli Los Angeles, fully immersed in turning around the California agency.“I came in with a classic Kiwi mentality – a bit naive and very positive,” Wallis says, of being poac...

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