• by Felicia Greiff , January 4, 2016

GroupM appointed two executives in the past few weeks: Christine Fang as CFO, GroupM China, and Robin Bach Kolling as the agency's head of Connect, GroupM Malaysia.

Fang, whose new position starts in February, will replace previous CFO Swee Leng Ng, who left the company for personal reasons, according to a release. Prior to GroupM, Fang worked as a finance director for financial planning and analysis at Mondelez China and was CFO of PepsiCo China Limited, China Beverage. Based in Shanghai, she will work with the leadership teams of all GroupM business, including Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom and Maxus.

Bach Kolling was previously head of digital at strategic media agency M2Media. Among his new responsibilities, he will oversee all of GroupM’s paid digital media services, including search, performance, paid social and programmatic services.

GroupM rebranded its Interaction platform as GroupM Connect in May. The global group, which includes Catalyst, Quisma, Medialets and Greenhouse Group, was formed to consolidate offerings in a cohesive platform. Last month, WPP’s GroupM announced it acquired programmatic marketing firm The Exchange Lab, which is known for its Proteus proprietary technology.