Leadership & Talent

Wavemaker Names Sharb Farjami First Chief Operating Officer for North America

The former Storyful CEO will help drive new business growth in the region

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As COO, Sharb Farjami will oversee all aspects of Wavemaker’s North American operations.Wavemaker
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By Kyle O’Brien

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GroupM’s Wavemaker is again expanding its North America leadership team by hiring former Storyful CEO Sharb Farjami as chief operating officer for North America, a new position at the agency, effective in September. Farjami will serve as a member of Wavemaker’s executive committee and will report to Louisa Wong, Wavemaker’s Americas region CEO.

Farjami has served in several chief executive roles over the past 11 years at NewsCorp and GroupM’s Mindshare. He joins Wavemaker from NewsCorp’s social media intelligence agency, Storyful, where as CEO he wrote several sponsored guest articles for Adweek on social and influencer media.

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Kyle O’Brien

Kyle O’Brien is a staff reporter for Adweek and editor of AgencySpy.

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