Digital transformation consultancy Publicis Sapient has recruited former EY Asia Pacific AI consulting lead associate Gavin Seewooruttun to move up its Information & AI division in Australia.
Seewooruttun joins Publicis Sapient within the newly-created function out of Melbourne after the previous 4 years as managing director of AI enterprise Cognis Consulting, earlier than which he spent near a decade and a half between EY and Wipro in Australia and the UK.
He turns into the enterprise transformation consultancy’s second main current recruit with senior Huge 4 expertise, following the appointment of former Deloitte lead consumer companies associate Angela Robinson as nation managing director on the finish of final 12 months.
“Gavin is an extremely vital addition to our Australian management crew,” Robinson said. “He has a confirmed track-record as an progressive and trusted advisor to shoppers, and his appointment displays the significance of Australia for Publicis Sapient’s continued international progress and imaginative and prescient as a pacesetter in AI and information innovation.”
Seewooruttun was famous for having beforehand constructed one among world’s largest AI groups throughout his five-year tenure serving giant monetary establishments, authorities departments, assets corporations, and multinational retailers as AI consulting lead for the Asia Pacific department of Ernst & Younger, which he initially joined as head of analytics upon its 2015 buy of C3.
Previous to that, he spent six years at Wipro throughout two stints within the UK and Australia, having began out at BAE following an digital engineering bachelors from the College of Southampton, complemented by a banking & finance diploma from LSE. Most just lately, he was co-founder and CTO of Advaise, which focuses on automated options for the skilled companies sector.
Now, as vice chairman and Australian information & AI lead at Publicis Sapient, he will probably be tasked with serving to native shoppers harness the know-how to remodel buyer expertise, create new income streams, and drive operational excellence, whereas supporting the agency’s prioritisation of AI-driven choices in accelerating its strategic progress plans throughout the APAC area.
“I’m extremely excited to contribute to a forward-thinking crew that’s passionately dedicated to leveraging information and AI to drive impactful transformation,” Seewooruttun mentioned. “Australia is poised to be a pacesetter within the digital age, and I’m keen to assist our shoppers unlock new alternatives and obtain sustainable progress via progressive AI-driven methods.”
Fashioned in 2015, Publicis Sapient is the enterprise consulting arm of world advertising and marketing large Publicis Groupe, and has a headcount of greater than 24,000 professionals in over two dozen international locations. The agency has been quietly increase its native capabilities lately, together with via the 2023 acquisition of Salesforce consultancy Tquila and earlier buy of Third Horizon.
