Nick S. Cyprus has been hired by Interpublic Group of Cos. as vice president, controller and chief accounting officer, effective May 24. He replaces Dick Sneeder, who became controller at
Interpublic's McCann- Erickson WorldGroup in March. Cyprus had been vice president and controller of AT&T, where he also led the telecom's Sarbanes-Oxley implementation, financial systems oversight,
and cost-reduction initiatives. He has also been assistant corporate controller and chief accountant at AT&T, and before that served nine years at AT&T Capital Corp.