MANILA – GroupM has made a slew of top management changes within Southeast Asia, which will take effect immediately.
The WPP-owned agency has expanded the role of GroupM Philippines CEO Puneet Arora (left) to lead three Southeast Asian markets.
Moving to the city state this August, he will be the new CEO of GroupM Singapore while overseeing the Philippines and Thailand as Chairman. Puneet, however, will remain as CEO until a successor has been named.
Reporting to Puneet is Kevin Clarke (right), CEO GroupM Thailand, who had his role expanded to lead GroupM Myanmar as CEO.
The former GroupM Singapore CEO, Jon Thurlow (middle), will now take on the bigger role of Chief Operating Officer for GroupM Asia Pacific. His duties covers Data and Analytics strategy and products, IT/Technology, GroupM Knowledge, Ad Ops, working with sister WPP group Kantar and an unnamed major project on tools and systems.
Mark Patterson GroupM Asia Pacific CEO announcing this change commented “ Its a big new role and a very important encompassing several key areas of growth for our group in the region.
“It’s important we have a senior, experienced and capable leader to champion and manage these connected areas of the business. Jon has done a terrific job in leadership and change management in Singapore and I am very confident he will be able to drive further change and progress quickly and effectively in these areas too.
