Stagwell has named Ben Berentson CEO, Owned Media, a new role in which Berentson is tasked with expanding the company’s owned media portfolio that currently includes travel content platform Ink, ReachTV (airports) and RealClearPolitics.  

Berentson was previously managing director at Stagwell’s Code and Theory for a decade and where he is credited with helping build the agency into a global force.  

Before that he spent a decade in senior digital strategy roles at Conde Nast and its publications Vogue and Glamour.  

Stagwell chairman and CEO Mark Penn said that Berentson will “accelerate our push to scale differentiated media platforms with real market impact.”