• by Amy Corr  @MediaPostOTL, December 4, 2013

Johannes Leonardo hired Michael Duda as chief executive officer. Duda will oversee the agency’s operations, teams and clients – including Google, Diet Coke, Sprite and Nike – working in partnership with agency co-founders and chief creative officers Jan Jacobs and Leo Premutico. Previously, Duda was co-founder and managing partner of Consigliere Brand Capital, a marketing management consultancy and investment fund. Duda will remain an investor in Consigliere. Prior to that, Duda spent more than a decade (1997-2000, 2001-2010) at Deutsch, most recently as partner and chief corporate strategy officer responsible for shaping the agency’s marketing, acquisition and joint venture planning, and corporate communications initiatives. Johannes Leonardo has also hired Julian Schreiber and Tom Martin as executive creative directors from Clemenger BBDO Melbourne where they served as creative directors.