TOKYO, JAPAN — Dentsu has announced two new appointments within its group management team aimed at accelerating growth and driving its transformation to an agile, client-centric organization. The new appointments draw upon two of dentsu’s most experienced leaders to simplify the business while putting innovation at the heart of everything dentsu delivers for clients, stimulating their top-line growth and supporting transformation objectives.
Key appointments
Giulio Malegori has been appointed as Group Chief Operating Officer of Dentsu Group Inc. Giului brings great depth in industry experience and an international mindset to this newly created role which brings together our global business to enable growth.
In this role, he will lead dentsu’s community of Regional CEOs and oversee global clients’ growth to optimize the one dentsu client growth strategy, streamline effectiveness in business operations, and enable dentsu’s regional and market-based client management teams to deliver exceptional value to customers and key stakeholders. He will also oversee Business Operations and IT, ensuring strong operational excellence.
Meanwhile, Jean Lin has been appointed as Group President – Global Practices of Dentsu Group Inc. In this newly created role, Jean will draw upon her multi-disciplinary industry experience to build the core capabilities and long-term competitiveness of dentsu.
She will lead and bring together the key practice areas through dentsu’s existing brands to enable the creation of unique value as a world-class global brand. She will also further advance dentsu’s industry-leading knowledge and transformational capabilities, nurturing highly specialized talent, and establishing a full range of solutions and a roadmap for internal and external partnerships to achieve dentsu’s vision to be at the forefront of people-centered transformations that shape society.
“To be a true partner for growth to our clients, we must simplify and focus our efforts, creating teams which can consult, ideate, and move quickly to deliver valuable transformation at scale,” said Hiroshi Igarashi, President and CEO of Dentsu Group Inc. “With these appointments, we are building a structure which will nurture and connect our deep areas of expertise, integrate our service offerings while proudly celebrating our individual network brands, and infuse diverse creativity on a global scale like we have never seen before at dentsu. I give my heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Giulio and Jean as they continue their work, alongside our global leadership teams, to take dentsu to the forefront of people-centered transformations which shape society.”
Further announcements about the structure and leadership of the new Brands and Practices group under Jean will be unveiled in the coming months.
