Cella to Leave IPG Fold

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NEW YORK Bill Cella, chairman and CEO of Interpublic’s Magna Global and vice chairman of DraftFCB, will leave both posts at the end of the year, IPG confirmed today.

Cella has led Magna since its 2001 formation. He added the DraftFCB role when that shop was aligned with IPG media firm Initiative a year ago.

From 1997 until his move to Magna, Cella was evp, director of broadcast and programming at Universal McCann North America, where he was responsible for buying more than $2 billion of national broadcast time on network, cable and syndicated television.



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