NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- John
Patroulis, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer of Grey, today
announced the promotion of Adam Kahn
to Chief Creative Officer of Grey Midwest. He has served as
Executive Creative Director since 2015.
Grey Midwest, a future-facing, end-to-end marketing hub located
in Cincinnati, debuted in April
2018.
Tony Desjardins, Managing
Director of Grey Midwest, said, "This is a well-deserved promotion
for Adam. His dynamic leadership has helped us build a
contemporary, fully-integrated creative agency with digital, data
and commerce at its core. His desire to make Cincinnati a creative destination continues to
transform the agency."
He continued, "We've broken new ground in brand experience with
the creativity, collaboration and speed to market our clients are
demanding and we've grown with them."
Adam Kahn: Bio
At Grey Midwest, Adam Kahn
oversees all creative development; helps set and implement the
creative vision; recruit top talent and guide new business creative
efforts.
His diverse background in film, TV, and game development has
contributed to his award-winning work including recognition at the
Cannes Lions, Effies, Digiday and Webby Awards.
Kahn began his advertising career at Grey New York in
2006. Along the way, he has served in creative roles at Rapp
and McGarryBowen where he led Verizon's Branded Entertainment
business, working with Lady Gaga and Beyonce, and created a mobile
phone game with NASA which debuted on the Cannes Lions Innovation
Stage in 2015. He joined POSSIBLE Cincinnati in 2015, which
has become part of Grey.
He has worked with such blue chip clients as Diageo, Pringles,
Procter & Gamble, Essilor of America, Mercedes-Benz, Walmart,
Pepsico, Verizon and Maserati.
He got his start in the mailroom at The William Morris Agency in
New York before a stint in
Hollywood.
Grey Midwest
Grey Midwest is the agency's North American center of excellence
for performance marketing. The hub includes:
- Grey: the award-winning, full-service creative
advertising agency, complemented with activation and public
relations; social marketing; and design capabilities.
- Grey Commerce: a proprietary practice that merges
shopper and ecommerce sensibility into a new offering dedicated to
making brands buyable, using data and creativity, to move consumers
to action and, ultimately, purchase.
- Townhouse: the full-service, creative production agency,
serving Grey clients. Townhouse features a new state-of-the-art
3,500 sq. foot end-to-end content creation studio across all
channels.
About Grey
Grey is the advertising network of Grey Group, which ranks among
the largest global communications companies. Its parent
company is WPP (NYSE: WPP). Under
the banner of "Grey Famously Effective Since 1917" the agency
serves a blue-chip roster of many of the world's best known
companies: Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, Kellogg's,
Pfizer, Canon, Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Nestle, Walgreens,
Applebee's, and T.J. Maxx. In recent years, Grey has been
named ADWEEK'S 'Global Agency Of the Year" twice; ADVERTISING AGE's
'Agency Of the Year' and CAMPAIGN magazine's 'Global Network of the
Year' in recognition of its creative and business performance
(www.grey.com)
Contact: Owen J. Dougherty
212-546-2551
owen.dougherty@grey.com
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