Tara McKenty
Tara McKenty
Executive Creative Director
AKQA
AUNZ
Biography
Tara has spent over 17 years working in the creative industries across the APAC region, including at creative agencies TBWA, Saatchi & Saatchi, BMF, and also spent a decade pretending to be a Tech-bro working as head of Creative for Google APAC, leading a lot of Google’s sport innovation. Tara now finds themselves in the halls of AKQA, a creative home that feels tailored to their passions of technology, craft and creative excellence. Tara leads the creative offering for AKQA across AU/NZ.
Tara's most notable achievement to date is founding Rare with Google, an initiative that provides equitable opportunities for underrepresented creatives to thrive at every stage of their career when DEIB was a thing (facetious tone intended).
Tara continues to disrupt the status quo, and as a consequence has won over two hundred awards (including D&AD pencils, Cannes lions, Grand Prix's, and Best in Shows) during her advertising rebellion.