• by Joe Mandese  @mp_joemandese, December 3, 2019

Patrick Dolan will step down as president of the Interactive Advertising Bureau in June 2020 and the ad trade bureau is launching a search for a successor.

Executive recruiter Ann Blinkhorn of Blinkhorn LLC will conduct the search, reporting to a search committee led by IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg, IAB Chairman Rik Van der Kooi (Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Advertising) and the IAB Vice Chair Troy Young (President of Hearst Magazines).

The IAB did not disclose why Dolan is leaving other than to say it was to pursue "an entrepreneurial opportunity."

Dolan, who joined the IAB in 2007, was named president in December 2017.