Ash Amrite Joins Wunderman Thompson As Client Partner

Wunderman Thompson has appointed Ash Amrite as Client Partner, leading a portfolio made up of digital experience clients.



Ash joins from Radley Yeldar, where he held a Board role as Head of Digital & Customer Experience for the last five years, working with clients including GSK, Ocado, Microsoft, Tesco and Arcelor Mittal and leading a team of 30 digital experience specialists. 

In his new role, Ash will take a leadership role on clients including ABB, Canon and Dell and will play a key role in developing the agency’s digital experience offering and portfolio of clients. Wunderman Thompson, a leading integrated agency, is also home to the UK’s largest digital experience team following new business wins including Pets at Home, Motability and Knight Frank. Wunderman Thompson has also being named Customer Engagement Agency of the Year for the last 4 years by Campaign.

While at Radley Yeldar, Ash established the RY Labs Innovation Hub for the fast prototyping of digital products ranging from interactive film and chatbots todata visualisation tools and platforms. He led pitches and client engagements for various global enterprise platforms and also led the diversity and inclusion strategy, setting board-level policy to advance inclusion across the business. 

Ash has 20 years’ experience in commercial and strategic leadership roles at integrated and digital agencies including Dare and Mullen Lowe working with major clients such as Lego, Unilever, Pernod Ricard, Burger King, Morrisons, Vodafone, Sony Consumer Electronics, EA Games, Nestle, Motorola and Kraft.

During his career he has won a clutch of awards, including a Mobile Gold at Cannes Lions for Microloan “Pennies for Life,” a Drum B2B Brave award for JTI Chatbot, and was part of Campaign’s Digital Agency of the Decade in 2010. 


Pip Hulbert, Chief Executive Officer of Wunderman Thompson UK, said: “Wunderman Thompson has long been an expert in the field of creating engaging, effective and world-class experiences for our clients. Over the years we’ve seen a soaring demand for digital experience and this year is no different.  I’m delighted to welcome Ash into the fold. A brilliant leader in the field who I know brings an integrated approach and will help deliver brilliant work for our clients.” 

Ash Amrite, Client Partner at Wunderman Thompson, said: “Joining Wunderman Thompson is a fantastic opportunity to bring what I know about digital experiences to a team of experts that are passionate about building truly integrated plans for world-leading brands. Thomas Edison once said that ‘vision without execution is hallucination’. I’m looking forward to bringing my vision to Wunderman Thompson and creating the best possible conditions for us to deliver against it flawlessly for our clients.”

Source: Wunderman Thompson

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