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Every week, Marketing Brew recaps the world's biggest agency leadership changes, account wins and losses, reviews, acquisitions, and more.
employment and retirement
FCB has a new Global Chief Creative Officer. Andres Ordóñez previously served as his CCO for the agency's Chicago division.
BBDO New York will part ways with President and CEO Kirsten Franik this summer. She spent almost 20 years with her agency.
Cornett has a new president. Jessica Vincent takes over the role of Vice President and Director of Brand Strategy in a new role.
Publicis affiliate marketing shop CJ has appointed Santi Pierini as its new CEO. He is an influencer and serves on the board of his marketing company Influential.
Gray has shaken up its leadership team, adding Fonda Lepage as chief communications officer and Erin Joyce as social director for the New York division. Mr. LePage has held positions at his Deutsch, Edelman, and FCB, and Mr. Joyce previously worked at Google's Creative Works and his Twitch.
Havas' Arnold Worldwide has added several new members to its leadership. Andrew Krensky joins from independent shop Omelet as the agency's managing director, and Arkana Mahadevan joins as his new SVP and strategy director at DDB, where he worked for more than a decade.
GroupM North America has hired new executives under newly appointed CEO Sharb Farjami. JiYoung Kim will leave her role at GroupM's Nexus to become her COO, and Lynne Reilly will join from her GroupM's Wavemaker to become the shop's first chief growth officer.
Account wins/losses and reviews
Suzuki has a new AOR. TMW Unlimited powers automakers' integrated creative, content, and CRM efforts.
PwC has partnered with McCann and is now the company's global creative agency. PwC's previous agencies include R/GA and VML.
Amazon-run retail site Woot has chosen independent shop Zulu Alpha Kilo as its AOR.
Ubisoft has selected Starcom as its global media account.
Haleon, which sells products such as Centrum vitamins and Sensodyne toothpaste, has launched Collectively as the first influencer marketing shop in the United States.
New departments, offices, acquisitions, etc.
Havas debuts Havas Consumer Health, the company's first health and wellness-focused store. The agency will handle work across areas such as baby care, skin care and menopause.
Indie agency Moon Rabbit has moved to a new space in New York's SoHo neighborhood. It is currently located in the same building as the production shop Hornet.
PMG has opened a new headquarters in Dallas, moving from another building in the city.
