McCann's Kottmann Joins Ogilvy

Named managing director, planning

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John Kottmann, evp, chief strategy officer and co-director of planning at McCann Erickson, is moving to Ogilvy & Mather in New York as senior partner, managing director in the WPP agency’s planning department.

At McCann in New York, Kottmann was global planning director on MasterCard and helped expand the credit card’s "Priceless" campaign to more than 100 markets. He pitched and won the agency’s $1.3 billion U.S. Army account in 2005, developed the "Army Strong" positioning, and led strategy in the pitch earlier this year in which McCann retained the business.

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