WPP's Wunderman Thompson Names Former Possible Executive as First North American CEO

Shane Atchison was CMO at startup Domo

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The newly formed Wunderman Thompson announced its first executive-level hire to staff today just one week after the official merger of Wunderman and J. Walter Thompson.

Shane Atchison will rejoin WPP as the hybrid agency’s North American CEO, according to internal memos from global CEO Mel Edwards and chairman Tamara Ingram acquired by Adweek.

Atchison had previously spent more than five years as CEO of digital agency Possible, which became part of the Wunderman network in 2017 shortly before

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