Our leadership

Angela Tangas

Angela Tangas is Chief Executive Officer, dentsu Australia and New Zealand. She is responsible for setting the strategic direction, driving business performance and growth for dentsu, which includes overseeing 20 brands and leading a team of more than 1,600 talented people. 

In a customer-led world, Angela is passionate about how data and technology can be used to build brands and unlock new possibilities for clients. After spending much of her career client-side, Angela understands the challenges and complexities many organisations face in balancing the delivery of seamless, connected customer experiences with achieving sustainable, profitable growth. 

At dentsu, Angela is focussed on growing the organisation by bringing the breadth of dentsu to clients and partners in easy, meaningful ways. By building high performing teams who operate in an open teaming environment, her approach is to provide clients with borderless access to a network of creativity, media, data and technology capabilities. 

With almost 20 years’ experience spanning digital communications, marketing, utilities, and insurance sectors, Angela has extensive experience in business transformation, holding leadership positions for both NYSE and ASX listed organisations. 

Prior to being appointed CEO, Angela was dentsu’s Chief Commercial Officer where she was responsible for identifying ways to deliver net new and organic growth for the network. Angela joined dentsu from iSelect where she was Group Executive - Energy & Telecommunications. Prior to this, she spent six years working with Sensis across product development, strategy and partnerships.

Angela lives in Melbourne with her husband, daughter and Chinese Shar-Pei.