REVOLVING DOOR: Starcom Hires Pair To Lead Best Buy, Beam And P&G Accounts

by Amy Corr @MediaPostOTL, January 13, 2014

Starcom USA tapped Jens Welin as executive vice president/managing director, where he relocate to the company’s headquarters in Chicago from Sweden, where he was most recently global growth director for Starcom MediaVest Group EMEA. He will lead the agency’s Best Buy and Beam Inc. accounts and will report to Starcom USA CEO Lisa Donohue, and serve as a member of the agency’s management board. In addition, Lisa Hurwitz joined Starcom USA as executive vice president/managing director for P&G North America Communications Planning. She will report to Donohue and PG Global lead Sarah Kramer and also serve on the Starcom USA management board. Hurwitz joins the agency from Arc Worldwide, where she served as executive vice president/group account director leading the shopper, digital and eCommerce business for P&G in North America, as well as the P&G lead for Arc globally. Lastly, Starcom MediaVest Group added Matt Kain as executive vice president, global network client operations. Kain will be based in SMG’s Chicago office and report to John Sheehy, president, global operations. Kain joins SMG from The Search Agency in Sydney Australia, where he was CEO-Asia Pacific. Prior to that, he was managing partner, managing director at Mindshare Search in New York.

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