Bigger things are ahead for Lee Newman, president at Ogilvy’s Chicago office, who was named the U.S. CEO for newly formed Mullen Lowe Group, the merger of Interpublic’s Mullen and Lowe agencies.
He’d been Ogilvy’s president since 2012. No successor named as yet.
Newman will reign in Mullen’s Los Angeles office, where anchor client Acura is also located. He will report to Mullen Lowe Global CEO Alex Leikikh and work with U.S. CCO Mark Wenneker in overseeing the Boston, LA and North Carolina office of what had been Mullen, and Lowe’s former New York office.
About his new Mullen agency Newman says. “I’ve been watching the agency develop and evolve.”
“It so clearly has cre ativity at its core, but my interest goes beyond that. It’s got a strong sense of itself and it has this challenger mentality that gets me excited.”
