RPMC has announced that Michael Birkin, former Vice Chairman of Omnicom Group and CEO of Omnicom Asia-Pacific, has taken a majority position in the privately held company, effective immediately. Birkin will hold the title of partner at RPMC, and will oversee its expansion in the marketing services and consulting sector. He will found a New York [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 14, 2009
Fahlgren CEO Steve Drongowski will step down at the end of the year; newly elected chairman Neil Mortine replaces him. Drongowski was with the firm for a quarter-century. He will remain with the agency through 2010 as a consultant. Mortine is president of the company’s Fahlgren Mortine Public Relations division. Founded in 1962, Fahlgren is Central Ohio’s third-largest [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 13, 2009
aQuantive, now called Microsoft Advertising, has lost its CEO Brian McAndrews to Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group. Madrona brought on McAndrews as a managing director. McAndrews built up aQuantive and led it through 15 acquisitions, before selling it to Microsoft for $6 billion in 2007. He was senior vice president of Microsoft’s Advertising & Publisher Solutions group [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 29, 2009
NetSeer has brought on John Mracek as president and CEO, replacing Matthew Hall, who will return to his duties as senior vice president of engineering. Mracek joins from Shopping.com, a subsidiary of eBay, where he was vice president and general manager of the Distributed Commerce Advertising Network. He was previously vice president of Advertiser Product Marketing [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 26, 2009
Advertising executive Tom Hansen is leaving TM Advertising in Dallas to join skate shoe manufacturer Heelys as CEO. Hansen, who helped turn around the fortunes of TM Advertising as president, is being brought on to aid the struggling Heelys. Hansen created advertising campaigns for clients such as Hallmark, McDonald’s and Miller Brewing. He also headed the Gigasphere [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tom Hansen, president of TM Advertising, is leaving the agency to become president and CEO of Heelys. He replaces Michael Hessong, interim leader of Heelys since former CEO Donald Carroll resigned in February after less than a year on the job. Dennis McClain, TM Advertising’s founding partner, will replace Hansen as chairman. Bill Oakley, Dave Weaver and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Todd Persons is leaving Orlando, Florida’s Massey Communications, the advertising, strategic marketing and public relations agency he founded in 1985, by July 24th. Massey president and CEO Bud Brewer will take over Persons’ spot as vice chairman. Marketing director and veep Lynne Frederick will step up as president and CEO. Andrea Massey-Farrell has been promoted to executive [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Dutch ad agency Darling has launched an office in New York City. Darling Advertising & Design launches with 20 staff and six clients. Jeroen Bours will act as chief executive; Avi Dan as president; and David Hale as CCO. Bours, 47, was previously at CCO at Hill, Holliday in New York. From the Darling website: Jeroen Bours is not [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
London-based ad agency Lowe Worldwide has offered its global CEO position to former Fallon International president Michael Wall. Talks are in advanced stages, but the hire has not been finalized. Wall quit as CEO of BBDO Portugal in March. He held the top job there for a year. He was one of five founding partners of Fallon’s [...]
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