Ex-Sotheby's Exec Makes Bid For PR

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After more than 20 years at J. Walter Thompson and Ammirati Puris Lintas, Jim Allman last week credited his most recent post, at the auction house Sotheby’s, with preparing him for his new job as president of DeVries Public Relations.

“[That] really thrust me into the world of nontraditional media,” said the 53-year-old Chicago native, formerly evp of worldwide marketing for Sotheby’s Holdings. “There was a lot of PR, events and a lot of one-to-one marketing.”

At Interpublic Group’s DeVries in New York, Allman will oversee 100 staffers and report to chairman and CEO Madeline de Vries.



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