MSN Ad Chief Gets Back To Her Roots

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Though it’s Kate Murphy’s first client-side job in her 10-year ad career, her new post—director of global advertising at Microsoft’s MSN—is in familiar territory.

“I have a lot of insight into the past strategies and understand the products fairly well … which has made the transition smoother,” said the 32-year-old East Lansing, Mich., native, who, as a vp, management supervisor at McCann-Erickson in San Francisco, worked on Microsoft and MSN for more than four years before joining Grey earlier this year.

Murphy, most recently vp, account director on Oracle at Grey Global Group’s Grey, San Francisco, will lead integrated communications at Redmond, Wash.-based



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