New UK CEO for Dentsu Inventive: Jessica Tamsedge joins from McCann Worldgroup

Dentsu Inventive has employed a brand new UK CEO, poaching Jessica Tamsedge from McCann the place she was made chief shopper officer for UK and Europe in January.

Tamsedge joined McCann as managing director in October 2019 and was beforehand at Gray London for 5 years. She is going to now oversee 400 folks throughout Dentsu Inventive’s workplaces in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Newcastle. Shoppers embrace Vodafone, Kellogg’s, Heinz, Waitrose, The Co-operative Financial institution.

Dentsu Inventive UK launched in June 2022 as a part of an enormous change on the Japanese-owned group which noticed the departure of world CEO Wendy Clark and a swift u-turn from Omnicom’s Alex Hesz, who had been as a consequence of be a part of as international chief technique officer.

Tamsedge mentioned: “I can not wait to hitch and champion this unbelievable group, rallying round a shared ambition for contemporary creativity to drive development. Our business talks concerning the want for integration, however few UK inventive businesses have the variety of expertise, self-discipline and geographical footprint of Dentsu Inventive: actually collaborative by nature and built-in by design.”

James Morris, at the moment Dentsu’s CEO for EMEA and UK, will now give attention to EMEA. He joined Dentsu from Stink the place he was international CEO, in September 2019.