Y&R Names Global CEO

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NEW YORK WPP Group has ended an 18-month search for a new worldwide CEO at Young & Rubicam by promoting Hamish McLennan, chief executive of Young & Rubicam Brands in Australia and New Zealand.

McLennan, 40, succeeds Ann Fudge, 55, who remains worldwide chair and CEO of Y&R Brands, the larger group of agencies that includes Wunderman, Landor Associates and Burson-Marsteller.

McLennan joined Y&R in 2002, from George Patterson Bates in Melbourne, Australia, where he was national managing director.



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