Y&R's McGarry Calls It a Day

Expert Client Handler Had 33 Years With Shop
NEW YORK–A 33-year career that began with a bit role on an aspirin account and ended with the mission of nurturing Young & Rubicam’s top clients draws to a close next week with the retirement of John McGarry.
McGarry’s job as president of Y&R’s holding company will not be filled. Y&R Inc. chief executive Peter Georgescu, who described McGarry as “like a brother,” said, “John is not replaceable.”
Instead, Georgescu, chief operating officer Ed Vick and chief client officer Linda Srere will assume McGarry’s duties on the $7 billion agency’s “key corporate accounts,” which provide nearly half its revenue.
McGarry, 58, who could not be reached due to a family matter, helped identify those accounts in the early 1990s.