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Succession at WestWayne Plays Out as Planned
ATLANTA–WestWayne president Ben West has moved up to chief executive officer in a transition that has been planned since his Tampa, Fla., shop, WestGroup, merged with Tucker Wayne/Luckie & Co. here in 1996.
The previous CEO, Knox Massey Jr., becomes chairman of the Atlanta agency’s finance committee. Sid Smith continues as chairman of the board.
Though he called his new post “the hot seat,” West described the development as “a bit anti-climactic, since this has been in the works for so long.
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