Omnicom Group Inc. announced the appointment of Tim Love as chief executive officer of Omnicom’s Asia Pacific India Middle East Africa (APIMA) operations.
In his new role, Love, who remains a vice chairman of Omnicom Group, succeeds Michael Birkin, Omnicom Group vice chairman and Asia Pacific chairman and CEO, who is leaving to take a majority interest in RPMC, a US-based events company with offices in London and Los Angeles.
At the same time, Serge Dumont, is promoted to president, Omnicom APIMA and Chairman Asia Pacific.
Love, during his 35-year career, has held senior client relationship positions in the US and abroad. Prior to becoming vice-chairman of Omnicom in 2006 he was president of Global Clients at Omnicom network TBWA Worldwide. Before joining TBWA in 2004, he was vice-chairman, International at Saatchi & Saatchi.
A lecturer at Oxford’s SAID School of Business and well known for his writings that include “Think like the Sun,” Love said, “I am delighted that I will be working across what are effectively the first 12 time zones in the day. Harnessing our energy and collaboration in these countries will be key to building a truly global economy and I look forward to working with Serge Dumont and the rest of the team.”
