Our People

Mark Mackay has had a long and seasoned career in advertising. Over some 30 years Mark has grown through the business from dispatch boy at McCann Erickson to senior postings in London, Sydney ,New York ,Auckland and Melbourne. Over that time Mark has worked at Young &Rubicam ,Saatchi &Saatchi and for the past 16 years at The Campaign Palace where he held senior positions in all three Palace offices before taking over as Chairman and Chief Executive in 2006.

Mark is widely credited with leading a significant financial turnaround at The Palace through 2005,06 and 2007 where revenues peaked at an unprecedented $22million. Such was this success that Mark was invited to head up lead WPP group company George Patterson Y&R where he was based in Sydney through 2007/08 as National Chief Executive.

In particular, Mark's career has a number of significant retail relationship highlights including heading up the Target business over 8 years and seeing that brand grow from Zero EBIT in 1999 to continuous year on year earnings since. Country Road, Coles, Myer, Jeanswest, Westpac, Hutchison3, Caltex, Meat and Livestock Aust and Placemakers NZ are all brands that Mark has played an active lead role in.

Mark is married to successful local retailer Roz Mackay and has three children and a great passion for outdoors.