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NEW YORK Interpublic Group’s Initiative confirmed today that Harry Janavey, the agency’s senior vice president and worldwide controller, died suddenly last night after suffering a heart attack.
Janavey, who was 46 at the time of his death, was a 24-year ad industry veteran who joined Initiative in 2002. Previously, he was executive vice president and worldwide CFO at McCann Erickson’s Momentum agency. Before that, he was a financial executive at Y&R.
In a memo to staffers on Thursday, Initiative worldwide CEO Alec Gerster praised Janavey as a consumate agency finance professional.
“Over
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