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Burrell Communications has restructured its top management and named veteran adman Mike de Maio its managing director.
De Maio was with Eisaman Johns & Laws and its successor agencies from the mid 1980s until the shop’s owners went bankrupt last year. After that he joined the Creative Alliance in Louisville, Ky., as president.
He follows another Chicago ad vet, Mike Faems, to Burrell. Faems, longtime head of Young & Rubicam’s creative operation in Chicago, last month was named executive vice president and managing director of creative operations, teaming with Alma Hopkins to oversee that end of the agency.
De Maio is one of five executive vice presidents who report to CEO Tom Burrell under the agency’s new structure.
De Maio said the African American owned shop’s challenge is to “leverage [its talents] beyond a particular niche.”
“You ought to preserve the brand advantage,” he said.
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