After the departure of CEO Curdin Janett: Triumvirate at McCann Erickson
Curdin Janett, CEO of McCann Erickson, is leaving the agency after nearly ten years. He will take on a new challenge in early 2008, as he told *Werbewoche*. According to the chairman of the board of directors, three people will soon share Janett’s former position.
The CEO of McCann Erickson, Curdin Janett, is leaving the agency after almost ten years. He will be taking on a new challenge at the beginning of 2008, as he told Werbewoche. According to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, three people will soon be sharing Janett's previous position. Curdin Janett was CEO at the McCann Erickson agency for a whole decade, but now he needs a change of scene. When asked whether he would continue to work in the same field, Janett only told Advertising Week: "I already have very concrete plans, but I don't want to comment on them yet. One thing is certain: I won't be breeding sheep." The agency's Chairman of the Board of Directors, Helmut Sendlmeier, does not know exactly what Janett has in mind either: "There is a lot of movement on the Swiss market. There are currently management changes at countless agencies. I don't want to speculate, I prefer to observe the whole thing from the outside."
The CEO's departure is an "amicable story", Helmut Sendlmeier assures Werbewoche. Curdin Janett had expressed the wish to give his professional career a new impetus and the friendly relationship meant that he was accommodated. "He is contractually bound until February, but he will leave at the end of the year so that he still has a little time to organize himself - you know how it is when you start something new." The departing CEO echoes a similar sentiment: "I can look back on a very interesting time. But after ten years at the same agency, I want to take on new challenges. When you take on a new job, you don't think so far into the future, it's time for something different."
McCann Erickson is to have a "newly accentuated" management structure, with an overall management team consisting of three people, according to Helmut Sendlmeier, Chairman of the Board of Directors. CFO Markus Peter and CCO Timo Kirez will have a special role to play. Peter is based at the Geneva office, while Kirez used to work in French-speaking Switzerland, but now works mainly in Zurich. Shared and geographically flexible management therefore seems important for the agency. Now the only question that remains is: Who will complete this triumvirate? According to Sendlmeier, details on the new management structure will be available in a few weeks.
Natalie Favre
The CEO's departure is an "amicable story", Helmut Sendlmeier assures Werbewoche. Curdin Janett had expressed the wish to give his professional career a new impetus and the friendly relationship meant that he was accommodated. "He is contractually bound until February, but he will leave at the end of the year so that he still has a little time to organize himself - you know how it is when you start something new." The departing CEO echoes a similar sentiment: "I can look back on a very interesting time. But after ten years at the same agency, I want to take on new challenges. When you take on a new job, you don't think so far into the future, it's time for something different."
McCann Erickson is to have a "newly accentuated" management structure, with an overall management team consisting of three people, according to Helmut Sendlmeier, Chairman of the Board of Directors. CFO Markus Peter and CCO Timo Kirez will have a special role to play. Peter is based at the Geneva office, while Kirez used to work in French-speaking Switzerland, but now works mainly in Zurich. Shared and geographically flexible management therefore seems important for the agency. Now the only question that remains is: Who will complete this triumvirate? According to Sendlmeier, details on the new management structure will be available in a few weeks.
Natalie Favre
