Mike Amour, chairman and CEO of Grey Group Asia-Pacific, leaves the
network on Jan. 1, 2009, to be succeeded by Nirvik Singh, head of Grey
South/ Southeast Asia.
A speaker at the last two Ad Congresses, Amour has held the top post
since 2005 and will take a sabbatical before considering
opportunities, possibly within Grey’s holding company WPP. Before
joining Grey in 2003, he had been Business Development Director of
TBWA Worldwide in New York.
Grey Group chairman and CEO Jim Heekin said in a statement: "Mike
Amour leaves with our sincere gratitude for his contributions to Grey
Group in re-engineering and energising our network in Asia-Pacific. He
has our best wishes for continued success in the next chapter of his
career."
Amour’s departure coincides with the appointment of Maile Carnegie as
the new head of marketing for P&G in Asia. Formerly head of marketing
for Australia, Carnegie was promoted following a P&G restructuring
that centralizes brand and media strategy for the whole of Asia. P&G
is one of the Grey Group’s anchor accounts in the region.
