KEVIN RAMSEY RESIGNS
Kevin Ramsey resigns from Publicis Two regional heads of Publicis Worldwide have revealed their plans to quit the agency. Kevin Ramsey is to resign from his regional CEO post while Mark Ingrouille is set to step down from his role as CEO for Thailand and Asia-Pacific director of business. Ingrouille first made his resignation known in January followed by Ramsey the following month. Ingrouille is expected to remain at the agency until at least September, while Ramsey is said to stay until the end of the year.
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role. Jean-Yves Naouri has been appointed as executive chairman of Publicis Worldwide. Sources believe the Asia-Pacific head role may be dissolved altogether.
Ramsey joined Publicis Worldwide in January of 2010 after being the president and CEO of McCann Worldgroup Asia-Pacific and CEO, McCann Worldwide Group Japan until August 2009. Ingrouille also served as McCann’s Southeast Asia area director at that time. Their departures follow news at the end of March that Richard Pinder, the chief operating officer of Publicis Worldwide, was to leave the advertising network after five years in the
The Integer Group expands to Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney The Integer Group announced that it will open offices in Sydney, Singapore and Mumbai to serve both its existing network client base and to capitalize on the growing demand for its global shopper marketing capability. The new offices will complement the existing Integer Group agency in Shanghai and the dedicated shopper team established some time ago in TBWA\ Hakuhodo in Tokyo, bringing together a network of five Asia Pacific offices and close to 100 dedicated staff. The Integer Group in Asia Pacific will launch with a number of local clients across the network including Insurance Australia Group, Procter & Gamble, Pacific Brands, GlaxoSmithKline, MARS and Michelin. The new Integer Asia Pacific network is led by Dan Paris, who takes up the new position of Regional Managing Director of The Integer Group Asia Pacific. This regional appointment is a promotion from Paris’ current role as Managing Director of TBWA\ Group Singapore – a role he has been in since 2006. The Singapore office will serve as a hub for The Integer Group offering across Southeast Asia. Inaugural LongXi Festival of Minds comes to Macau in August The first LongXi Festival of Minds launches in Macau on August 21 to 23, announced Tomaz Mok, Peter Soh and Jimmy Lam, three of the four founders of the LongXi Creative Awards. LongXi , the celestial seal of the royal dragon, is the only cross-market Chinese language advertising creative awards being included into two global annual creative rankings – the Gunn Report and the Big Won. Until now, LongXi was only an annual creative award, with judging and seminars by its juries in cities such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Urumqi, Taipei, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
May-June 2011
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