• by Fern Siegel , April 18, 2025

Nick Handel is now Chief Executive Officer for MRM UK, a creative relationship marketing agency.

Previously, he spent almost 15 years at McCann Worldgroup in Asia-Pacific, mostly recently being managing director, MRM Asia Pacific.

In his new role based in London, Handel will broadening the agency’s CRM, creative commerce and CX capabilities.

As president of McCann Worldgroup Southeast Asia, Handel led teams across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand, spanning four agencies: MRM, McCann, Craft and Hedy. The group services global brands such as Loreal, Microsoft.

Before MRM, Handle worked as regional director for Leo Burnett in Asia Pacific. Prior to that, he held positions at CX Lavender in New Zealand and Saatchi & Saatchi in London.

Handel will be succeeded by Brandon Cheung, who will assume leadership for McCann Worldgroup APAC.  

MRM’s Global CEO, Grant Theron, called Handel “a highly capable leader and especially well positioned for this moment and role. He’s consistently delivered results for our clients and for our business throughout his career at MRM, and he’s poised to make an immediate impact for us in the UK.”