MPG Insider Seen as Next Chief Exec

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NEW YORK Havas media network MPG is expected to appoint Alfonso Rodés worldwide chief executive officer, according to sources.

Rodés currently serves as chief corporate development officer of MPG and CEO of MPG Spain. (The company is based in Barcelona.)

He would succeed his brother, Fernando, who was elevated in March to chief executive of Havas by chairman Vincent Bolloré, the French entrepreneur who took control of the holding company last summer.

According to sources, Fernando Rodés has told Havas staffers that Alfonso would succeed him, possibly as early as June.





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