Josh Gallagher

Josh Gallagher is Chief Operating Officer, APAC at EssenceMediacom, GroupM’s newest and largest agency that is committed to delivering marketing breakthroughs for brands. In his role, Josh is tasked with scaling EssenceMediacom’s capabilities and providing consistent leadership for its clients across the region.

With a focus on driving the agency’s culture, he aims to bring a forward-thinking and challenging mindset, helping people and clients to continually grow. He believes that in an industry that is ever-changing, the ability to evolve the way of working through more agile talent and technology capabilities will deliver work that transforms clients’ businesses.

With over 20 years of industry experience, Josh uses his expertise across brand communications, digital, content, technology, and data to drive business growth. He has built profitable practices from the ground up, along with developing teams of market-leading specialists. With his progressive mindset, he has taken the lead in global ecommerce consulting practices. He has also authored unique training approaches to constantly develop how teams better immerse themselves in clients’ businesses.

Some of the world’s most influential brands have tapped into Josh as a key advisor. He has defined marketing transformation for global consumer packaged goods brands, delivering first-to-market solutions that have won at global award shows for creativity, media, data, and technology. With international awards jury experience, industry body representation, and countless speaking engagements at events, Josh has a passion to make the industry more positive and provocative.

Roland Berger is one of the world's leading strategy consultancies with a wide-ranging service portfolio for all relevant industries and business functions. Founded in 1967, Roland Berger is headquartered in Munich. Renowned for its expertise in transformation, innovation across all industries and performance improvement, the consultancy has set itself the goal of embedding sustainability in all its projects. Roland Berger revenues stood at more than EUR one billion in 2023.