James Greet appointed CEO of Ikon Communications
Mindshare boss James Greet has been appointed CEO of Ikon Communications following the dramatic departure of Dan Johns two weeks ago.
The well respected Johns and a number of senior Ikon staff, including the company’s national digital director Ellie Rogers and people and culture director Leonie Kerley, left the company all in the same 24 hours.
Greet’s move leaves him within the WPP family – Mindshare is part of WPP’s Group M, while WPP is also a major shareholder in STW which owns Ikon.
He joined Mindshare in 2010 and was previously credited with the turnaround of OMD in Australia. Soon after arriving at Mindshare he helped the agency win one of the largest accounts in Australia with the $45-million Unilever account.
Does this signal an integration of Ikon into GroupM?
I imagine that is inevitable at some stage.
@Trevor – dont think so.. Ikon is too valuable for STW to have them sell/lose control of it
and… groupm is too good for ikon… no doubt there’ll be more ‘exits’ to come.
Both Ikon and Mindshare are owned/ part owned by STW, so one would have to assume that this was a planned transfer