Johnson at MRM Partners as Digital Director

NEW YORK Microsoft’s John Kahan hopes Greg Johnson can do for his company what he did for other blue-chip clients such as American Express and General Motors.

Johnson, 42, joined direct-marketing shop MRM Partners, a division of Interpublic Group’s McCann WorldGroup, two weeks ago as its first global director of digital innovation. He will also play a key role on the Microsoft account, which MRM splits with WPP Group’s Wunderman. Global billings on the CRM business are about $400 million [Adweek, Feb.