• April 8, 2005

WPP Group's MindShare North America has promoted both Shari Cohen and Jason Maltby to the post of president, co-executive directors of national broadcast. Previously they were Co-Directors of National Broadcast.

As part of their new positions, they will become part of the Office of the President, the management group that includes Marc Goldstein, CEO; Kathy Crawford, president, MindShare Local Broadcast; and Joe Scangamor, senior partner, chief financial officer, MindShare Americas. Both will continue to run the National Broadcast groups in NY and Chicago.

Maltby is an 11-year veteran of MindShare and its predecessor agency, Ogilvy & Mather. Cohen joined MindShare in 2001 from ESPN to run the media shop's Unilever business. -- D.K.