• by Larissa Faw , July 12, 2017

Publicis Groupe has appointed Alex Lea as executive creative director at DeptW, the company unit dedicated to the Groupe's Walmart account. 

Lea will be based at Saatchi New York’s offices and report to Saatchi NY Chief Creative Officer, Javier Campopiano and Publicis New York Chief Creative Officer, Andy Bird. 

This position reunites the industry veteran with Publicis Groupe after working with a host of agencies including Droga5 and CPB. Most recently he was group creative director at Grey New York, and prior to that, ECD at Erwin Penland and Co. Earlier in his career, he worked at Saatchi & Saatchi and Publicis NY.  

Last July the Groupe formed DeptW to oversee Walmart’s U.S. advertising and in-store creative.