CHICAGO-Longtime Ketchum Advertising executive David S. Egan has been named president of the Pittsburgh agency following a relapse suffered by Jim Ficco in his battle against leukemia.
Egan, 40, previously served as executive vice president and director of account management at the agency, which he joined in 1981.
Ficco, 43, took a six-month leave from the agency’s top post in 1996, when his leukemia was first diagnosed. Egan ran the shop until Ficco returned in January of this year.
Ficco was diagnosed with a relapse of the disease in early September, causing him to hand over the presidency to Egan, said agency representative Lee Brody.
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