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NEW YORK Two senior executives at WPP Group’s RTC Relationship Marketing have stepped up to fill the roles left vacant by the November departure of president and CEO Becky Chidester.

Co-managing directors Barry Kessel and Jeffrey Ross have become CEO and president, respectively, at the Washington, D.C.-based shop, the agency said. Kessel, 56, and Ross, 49, will be based in Washington and oversee both that office and the shop’s satellite in New York.

Chidester left to become chief operating officer at sister shop Wunderman in New York.



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