• by Joe Mandese  @mp_joemandese, January 27, 2014

Eighteen months after joining Interpublic flagship McCann Erickson as CMO of its North American region, Alex Lubar has been promoted to Global CEO of the McCann Worldgroup, a new position reporting to Worldgroup Chairman-CEO Harris Diamond.

Lubar, who joined in July 2013 from a new business role at WPP's Grey Advertising unit, has been a key player in some major new business wins, including the United States Postal Service, Lockheed Martin, Zurich Insurance, SABIC, Jose Cuervo, the American Frozen Food Institute and Ignite Restaurant Group.

In a related move, the Interpublic unit announced that another Grey new business exec, Chioma Aduba, has joined McCann's New York operations as new business group director.