Matt Batten to head back to Australia to take the executive creative director role at Edge, Sydney

Aussie expat Matt Batten is set to return to Australia this month to take up the executive creative director role at Sydney content agency Edge.

Batton left Australia in December 2012 to take up the group chief creative officer role at Wunderman UK, transferring from the national executive creative director gig at Wunderman Australia. He departed the London agency in June last year and since then has been consulting creative director at Valtech, with offices in London and Manchester.

Batten joined Wunderman Sydney as CD in January 2009, soon promoted to national executive creative director. Battenwas previously a member of award-winning DM teams at BMF and Saatchi& Saatchi. He was also a past chairman of the ADMA Agency Council and a keyplayer in the DM Creative School.

Batten served as a Cannes Lions Direct juror in 2011 and was named Digital Creative of the Year in 2010 by Campaign magazine Asia. He was the driving force behind impressive campaigns on behalf of Earth Hour and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8. Before joining Wunderman, Batten served as group creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi. Prior to that, he was at BMF in Sydney for five years. For eight years, he served as head lecturer at the DM Creative School in Sydney.