Young Ascends at Optimedia

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NEW YORK Forty-year media agency executive Mike Drexler, currently president of Optimedia, an agency within Publicis Groupe’s ZenithOptimedia network, will retire this summer, the agency confirmed today.

Tim Jones, who replaced Rich Hamilton last year as CEO of ZenthOptimedia in the U.S., has appointed Antony Young to succeed Drexler.

Young is moving from London, where he has been CEO of ZenithOptimedia U.K. Group, to assume his new role. In the U.K., Gerry Boyle, who has been managing director of the ZO U.K.



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