EssenceMediacom world COO Josh Krichefski has been nominated as IPA President-elect to succeed Julian Douglas, vice chairman of VCCP. The election will happen on the IPA AGM in March subsequent yr. The IPA represents UK inventive and media companies.
Krichefski was chosen following a proper three-month choice course of led by former President Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient, who headed up the Presidential Nominating Committee.
Vaz says: “I couldn’t be extra delighted that Josh has agreed to tackle this function. He’s the proper individual to steer our business as we begin the second quarter of 2023. Josh’s power and keenness for our enterprise will likely be invaluable in serving to us all benefit from the alternatives that subsequent yr will inevitably convey. I do know he will likely be an excellent President.”
Krichefski says: “I’m actually honoured to have been chosen as the following President of the IPA. I look ahead to constructing on the excellent work of my predecessors in championing our business, its creativity and its affect on the planet. We live by means of an awfully disruptive interval which is reshaping the financial, social and pure setting. How we proceed to adapt as an business is completely essential as to how we, and our shoppers, will survive and prosper within the years forward.”
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