Saatchi's Gilbert to Step Down

LOS ANGELES Scott Gilbert, co-chief executive of Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saachi’s $3 billion office in New York, is retiring, and the agency is talking to outside candidates as it seeks a replacement, sources said.

Gilbert, 50, has run New York operations with co-chief executive Mike Burns since the beginning of the year, after the network’s worldwide CEO Kevin Roberts ended an unsuccessful three-year recruitment effort to find a single leader for the shop. Also at that time, he dissolved the four-person managing partnership that had been in place since 2000 and which included both Burns and Gilbert [Adweek, Dec.