Hugo Lai, most recently VP Associate Media Director at Optimedia @ Publicis & Hal Riney, San Francisco, has joined Universal McCann San Francisco as VP Group Media Director. For the past ten years, he
has been with Optimedia @ Publicis & Hal Riney (formerly Hal Riney & Partners), leading the Hewlett-Packard account through their merger with Compaq, and worked on General Motors, The Mirage Resorts,
Sprint PCS, Alamo-Rent-A-Car, Clinique, Peet's Coffee and Sees Candies accounts, among others.