Accenture Track has snapped up Annette King, Publicis UK CEO, as its international lead of communications. She’s going to report back to former R/GA international CEO, Sean Lyons, who just lately joined Accenture Track as international capabilities lead.
The previous Publicis UK CEO will oversee the Accenture Track businesses – plus Droga5 and The Monkeys, that are a part of the community however retain their very own model. Accenture Track was launched final April to construct a inventive community throughout the consultancy, however it has struggled to search out an id and will profit from the enter of King and Lyons.
Over at Publicis Groupe, Annette King has had success main the UK, the place the Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi manufacturers have turn into a lot stronger underneath her watch. Nonetheless, regardless of being Publicis Groupe’s second greatest market, the UK has not been on the centre of a run of huge worldwide wins over the past couple of years.
Within the final six months, King’s position has been diluted. Loris Nold, CEO of Asia Pacific, Center East & Africa, was made Publicis Groupe’s CEO for EMEA (together with UK), whereas high WPP exec Demet Ikiler was employed as COO for a similar area. King, who joined Publicis from Ogilvy in Might 2018, is not going to get replaced.
Nold mentioned: “During the last six months we’ve progressed our transformation and our ambition to make the UK a platform for Europe. Because of the energy and momentum of our businesses, mixed with the latest management appointments, in addition to the present excellent dynamic of Publicis Sapient led by Nigel Vaz, I’m very assured in our capacity to additional speed up within the UK.”
David Droga, who’s CEO of Accenture Track, mentioned: “I’ve recognized Annette for greater than 20 years and have admired her journey each huge step of the best way. Her dedication to tradition, DEI and shopper affect is clear in the whole lot she does. I’m thrilled to have her be part of our management workforce and have her distinctive voice assist architect our future.”
