John Halpin is CEO of WPP Media New Zealand, bringing over two decades of media and marketing experience across Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

A strategist and a curious thinker by nature, John has spent his career helping brands navigate the structural shifts redefining modern media working with organisations including Coca-Cola, Commonwealth Bank, Telstra, Google and Microsoft. He has held executive roles at some of Australia's most respected agencies, including Naked Communications and Ikon, before building and scaling the media division at independent agency Apparent.

Appointed CEO of WPP Media New Zealand in 2023, John now leads one of the country's most significant media operations bringing together the strategic, investment and commercial disciplines that define what great media leadership looks like today.

He brings a rigorous but genuinely creative perspective on what it means for media thinking to be at its best and a deep belief that the most powerful work happens when strategy and creativity are impossible to separate.