Dan Johns leaves Ikon as Simon White takes chairman role
Ikon CEO Dan Johns has departed the agency and founder Simon White has returned to the frontline, owner STW has announced.
The announcement said that White, who co-founded the agency with Gary Hardwick before selling to STW, would take on the new role of STW Media chairman, overseeing both Ikon and the more recently launched Bohemia.
According to the announcement: “Beginning immediately, White will oversee media agencies Ikon and Bohemia as Chairman, while looking for new business opportunities, acquisition targets and growth potential in the media sector for STW both internationally and locally.”
White and Hardwick launched Ikon in 1999 with CommBank as foundation client. They sold in 2010.
STW doublespeak to make sure no one looks bad, PR 101. Two other execs about to ‘consider . . . next step’
I don’t get it:
Mumbrella says Johns leaves
Adnews ‘exclusive’ says Ikon parts ways.
Very different take on things.
Ironic that in the left hand column is an STW piece from Chris on how not to get fired ??