Tag Archives: Gustavo Martinez

WPP has hired former Digitas exec Annette Male (left) as its new Wunderman Thompson APAC region boss, thereby placing three women at the top of the newly-minted agency. She joins Global CEO Mel Edwards and global chairman Tamara Ingram. Handily ...

JWT has joined the ranks of New York agencies cutting staff according to Agency Spy, hardly surprising given the plague of locusts it’s undergone over the past couple of years. About 20 people have gone following a management reshuffle which ...

L’affaire Martinez rumbles on (the former JWT global boss is accused of “sex harassment and retaliation” by Erin Johnson who, as far as we know is still toiling in JWT New York’s PR department) with her lawyers accusing JWT owner ...

Dentsu Media employee Jiro Inao has committed suicide in Indonesia, through the pressure of overwork according to police. Inao, 48, was a senior manager. His family have refused an autopsy. Dentsu’s CEO in Japan resigned last year over a similar ...

They still don’t seem to be happy bunnies at JWT New York despite chief communications officer Erin Johnson’s return to work and the replacement of macho global CCO Gustavo Martinez by the supposedly nicer Brit Tamara Ingram. The rather large ...

JWT chief communications officer Erin Johnson, who’s suing JWT over former global CEO Gustavo Martinez’s allegedly sexist and racist behaviour, is returning to work. Which should make for some interesting communications. New JWT CEO Tamara Ingram said in a memo: ...

Remember JWT communications boss Erin Johnson’s suit against former JWT CEO Gustavo Martinez over alleged sexist and racist comments and behaviour? It seems to have moved on a bit as a New York judge has refused JWT’s attempt to get ...

Is this inclusion/sexism stuff in adland getting out of hand? Colourful black-clad (yes he’s both) former Saatchi & Saatchi boss Kevin Roberts (below) – now “head coach” at Publicis Groupe – has been suspended for saying, among other things, that ...

WPP has produced its Q1 2016 numbers and they’re much as expected with decent revenue growth and an increase in net sales – its version of organic growth – of 3.2 per cent, in line with last year. Billings were ...