Exclusive: Ogilvy Poaches McCann’s Devika Bulchandani as North America CEO

She also takes on the role of global chairwoman of advertising at the WPP shop

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Ogilvy announced that Devika Bulchandani is joining the agency as its North America CEO and global chairwoman of advertising. The move ends an impressive 26-year tenure at McCann, where she departs from her role as McCann’s North America president

Reporting to CEO Andy Main, Bulchandani is tasked with driving Ogilvy’s business across the United States and Canada. Her purview crosses the agency’s entire enterprise, including advertising, brand and content, experience, growth, innovation and health practice.

Remarking on the move to Ogilvy, Bulchandani noted that she was going through an “existential reckoning,” in that the entirety of her career would have been at one agency.

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