Harris Drury Cohen Reshapes Management Team

Harris Drury Cohen has restructured its top management group.

Stan Harris, chairman and founding partner of the 22-year-old Fort Lauderdale, Fla., shop, is relinquishing new-business responsibilities to run the agency’s newly formed public relations and diversified services division. Retiring partner Phil Cohen’s duties will be assumed by incoming director of client services Dina Shapiro.

Day-to-day operations at the agency, now renamed HDC, will be overseen by an executive committee that includes chief executive officer Michael Goldberg, creative partner Michael Cannon, Shapiro, chief operating officer Norm Tousignant, Harris and new-business director Teddi Alyce Segal.

“We’re proud of the foundation we’ve built,” said Goldberg, “but we have to evolve to become more successful in the future.”

The shop has seen its billings, which topped$90 million in the late 1990s, drop to an estimated $65 million this year, a decline triggered by the loss of clients such as Raymond James Financial, Wyndham Resorts and Levitz Furniture.

Goldberg, an...