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Jacobo Gomez has started a new position as Sales Director – Latin America at Clear Channel Outdoor. Prior to this appointment, Gomez was Latam and US Hispanics’ Media Sales Director for Spain’s Grupo Prisa, owner and publisher of AS.com and El País.
McCann Worldgroup announced that Hugo Rodrigues has been named Chairman and CEO of WMcCann. He was most recently President and CEO of Publicis Brazil, an agency where he had also served as Chief Creative Officer before rising to the top position. Rodrigues will report jointly to Rob Reilly, Global Creative Chairman of McCann Worldgroup, and Fernando Fascioli, President of McCann Worldgroup Latin America & Caribbean. Martin Montoya remains as President for WMcCann, and will report to Rodrigues.
Tiago Ribeiro has arrived to Montevideo to start his new position of Head of Social Media at Wild-Fi agency. The company has operations in Puerto Rico, Panama, Chile, Paraguay and Argentina and belongs to the group The Electric Factory.Before arriving to Uruguay, Tito had worked at J. Walter Thompson and Y&R in Peru, in addition to teaching social networking at Miami Ad School.
Juan Carlos Liscano has been named the new managing director of American Airlines for the airline’s Latin America operations.Liscano’s new occupation will require him to oversee operations for “American’s largest international region covering 50 destinations in Mexico and Central and South America,” according to the Dallas-Fort Worth-based company.In 2014, American Airlines appointed Juan Carlos Liscano as the head of the Los Angeles operation. Liscano has been with the company since 1994.
Interactive Advertising Bureau Brazil has announced its 2018 board:
Ana Moisés, Marketing Solutions Director of LinkedIn Latin America, assumes the position of President of the entity.
Paula Puppi, CEO of Blinks, will occupy the position of agencies Vice President.
Raffael Mastrocola, LatAm General Director at The Community Miami, is the new Financial VP.
Fabrício Protti, Managing Director of Teads, is the new VP of Vehicles.
The new board will become effective on January 1.
Regina Campanini has joined argentine agency Don as Head of Strategy.
Gonzalo Farrus is the new VP SALES for LATAM of Mediasur Argentina.
Rodale has hired former Dow Jones executive Scott Schulman, as its president—a role left vacant since Steven Pleshette Murphy stepped down as president and CEO in 2009.Maria Rodale, who assumed Murphy’s CEO duties at the time of his departure, had stated her intention to hire both a president and COO in July.
Drew Meyers joined San Francisco-based private equity firm, Gryphon Investors, where he will be leading the origination efforts across all industry groups for new platform investments as well as follow-on acquisitions for existing portfolio companies. As part of Gryphon’s Investment Review Committee. Meyers previously worked at Group Argent. His work there included advice on Hispanic and Latin American Media M&A transactions.