Dentsu Artistic has employed a brand new UK CEO, poaching Jessica Tamsedge from McCann the place she was made chief shopper officer for UK and Europe in January.
Tamsedge joined McCann as managing director in October 2019 and was beforehand at Gray London for 5 years. She’s going to now oversee 400 folks throughout Dentsu Artistic’s workplaces in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Newcastle. Shoppers embody Vodafone, Kellogg’s, Heinz, Waitrose, The Co-operative Financial institution.
Dentsu Artistic UK launched in June 2022 as a part of an enormous change on the Japanese-owned group which noticed the departure of worldwide CEO Wendy Clark and a swift u-turn from Omnicom’s Alex Hesz, who had been because of be part of as world chief technique officer.
Tamsedge mentioned: “I can not wait to affix and champion this unimaginable staff, rallying round a shared ambition for contemporary creativity to drive development. Our trade talks in regards to the want for integration, however few UK artistic businesses have the range of expertise, self-discipline and geographical footprint of Dentsu Artistic: actually collaborative by nature and built-in by design.”
James Morris, at present Dentsu’s CEO for EMEA and UK, will now deal with EMEA. He joined Dentsu from Stink the place he was world CEO, in September 2019.
