Carney Arrives At UM in N.Y.

As someone who started her own business in the late 1990s, M.T. Carney, Universal McCann’s new svp, channel account planner, is glad to be working at a company where someone else signs the checks.

“Being your own boss is a really, really great idea and a really difficult reality,” said the Dunoon, Scotland, native, who co-founded nails inc., a British nail-salon chain, in 1999.

Carney, most recently a strategist at media-strategy shop Michaelides and Bednash in New York, will use account-planning tools to study how consumers relate to brands and the media at UM in New York.