WPP Appoints Former Saatchi & Saatchi Chief
WPP has appointed former Saatchi & Saatchi chief executive, Tamara Ingram, to help expand its Kantar marketing services division.
Ingram, who stepped down as chairman and chief executive of McCann Erickson UK earlier this year, will take up the newly created role of president of Kantar’s three marketing firms, Added Value, Fusion 5 and Henley Centre.
The chief executives of the three firms – Paul McGowan and Charles Broome at Added Value, Dave Moran at Fusion 5, and Sian Davies at Henley Centre – will report directly to Ingram, who will work to expand the operations on an international level.
She will report directly to Kantar chief executive, Eric Salama, who said: “Tamara is one of the most talented people in the industry and will be a huge catalyst in taking our companies to another level. She knows what clients need to make best use of work carried out on their behalf and how to build enduring relationships with them.”
Ingram, who is widely regarded as one of the advertising industry’s highest profile executives, joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 1985 and took over the running of the agency in the mid-nineties. She was made executive chairman when Saatchi was taken over by Publicis in 2001, but left to join MacCann Erikson at the beginning of last year as chairman and chief executive.
Commenting on her appointment, Ingram said: “In an ever increasingly competitive world, those companies that succeed are those that make use of unique insights. I am delighted to be working with three leading-edge organisations that help clients transform their business this way.”
Earlier this year Fiona McAnena stepped down as chief executive of Mediaedge:cia UK to take up the role of development director at WPP’s insight and consultancy division, Kantar.
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