David Wedebrant Email Address

General Manager

AKQA is an ideas and innovation company. We exist to create the future for our clients.

I started my career early as I got involved in a pre-Facebook community startup when I was only 18 years old. For the following ten years I had the privilege of direct online campaigns, large scale events, PR within social media, product launches, and traditional advertisement in several European countries for a list of very exciting brands. In 2013 I left my old company behind and joined Ottoboni. Managing to bring us in as the "dark horse" to pitch for the role of digital agency of record for L'Oréal Paris, and beating several international agencies, I then focused my efforts on expanding our business within the L'Oréal family of brands. As I left Ottoboni in early 2016, we had successfully grown the account to become one of the largest digital accounts in the Nordics (and also expanding to other L'Oréal brands such as Redken and Vichy). AKQA approached me in the fall of 2015 with a position that would have me direct global digital campaigns for Volvo Cars. Even though I care deeply for the L'Oréal account and the people involved on both the agency and client side, this was an opportunity I couldn't pass up...