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WPP Scangroup

Akua Owusu-Nartey, Group CEO of WPP ScanGroup and CEO of Ogilvy Africa, is steering one of the region’s most complex turnarounds. With deep pan-African experience, she faces the urgent task of rebuilding growth, restoring client confidence, and repositioning the business for a faster, digital-first, and fiercely competitive marketing landscape.
Akua Owusu-Nartey, Group CEO of WPP ScanGroup and CEO of Ogilvy Africa, is steering one of the region’s most complex turnarounds. With deep pan-African experience, she faces the urgent task of rebuilding growth, restoring client confidence, and repositioning the business for a faster, digital-first, and fiercely competitive marketing landscape.

In the Hot Seat: Can Akua Owusu-Nartey Reverse ScanGroup’s Tailspin?

This week, WPP ScanGroup, some would say East Africa’s leading integrated marketing communications group, and the regional arm of global advertising giant WPP, announced its 2025 full-year results. The Group reported yet
April 28, 2026
Edna Torana, newly appointed Managing Director of Scanad Uganda, at her office leading the agency’s AI-driven transformation.
Edna Torana, the new Country Lead of Scanad Uganda — a people-centred, results-driven leader re-engineering a 30-year agency for the AI age, blending human insight, cultural intelligence and global WPP technology to shape the future of Uganda’s creative economy.

AdWoman on a Mission: How Edna Torana, Scanad Uganda’s New Boss, Is Re-Engineering the Agency for the AI Age 

Edna Torana, Scanad Uganda’s new Country Lead, did not come to the top of Uganda’s advertising industry by being parachuted into power. She came up the hard way — through client meetings
January 12, 2026
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In this exclusive Q&A, WPP Scangroup’s Interim CEO Miriam Kaggwa outlines her wartime leadership strategy to drive profitable growth, retain top talent, and rebuild client trust after major account losses. She unpacks trends in Africa’s advertising industry—from digital disruption to Gen Z dynamics—while affirming WPP’s institutional strength and agency value in an evolving communications landscape.
Miriam Kaggwa, Interim CEO of WPP Scangroup, steps into the spotlight with calm resolve and a clear game plan—ready to lead the agency into its next chapter of profitable growth.

EXCLUSIVE Q&A: WPP Scangroup’s Wartime General, Miriam Kaggwa, on Her Game Plan to Return to Profitable Growth in a Fast and Furious Industry

Describing herself as a “wartime General”, Ugandan-born Kaggwa brings to the role a deep rooting in agency operations and finance having spent over two decades within global agency networks like McCann Worldgroup,
July 18, 2025
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