• by Joe Mandese  @mp_joemandese, November 9, 2021

Dentsu International has create a new diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) role and has tapped ad industry diversity veteran Kai Weidie to fill it. 

Weidie, who was named senior vice president-diversity, equity and inclusion for Dentsu’s media operations in the Americas, reports jointly to Dentsu Media-Americas CEO Doug Rozen and Dentsu Americas Chief Equity Officer Christena Pyle.

She joins from Bloomberg LP, where she was diversity and inclusion client partner.

Prior to that, she served as director of diversity and engagement at McCann New York and director of the Mosaic Center and education services at the American Advertising Federation.