IPA announces Council election results 2017

Sarah Golding, CEO and Partner of CHI & Partners, was officially ratified as IPA President having been announced as President-elect in December 2016. She will deliver her inaugural speech setting out her two-year presidential agenda for the industry at the IPA Members’ Lunch on Wednesday 26^th April.

In addition, 21 IPA agency practitioners were either newly-elected of re-elected to the IPA Council. Of the 21, 10 are new to council.

The newly-elected members are:

• Brian Coane, Partner, Leith
• Julian Douglas, Vice Chairman, VCCP
• Tom Firth, Managing Director, M&C Saatchi
• Alison Hoad, joining BBH as Chief Strategy Officer in May
• Mark Howley, Chief Executive, Zenith Media
• Pip Hulbert, Chief Operating Officer, Wunderman UK
• Becky McOwen-Banks, Creative Director, FCB Inferno
• Marc Nohr, Chief Executive, Fold7
• Ben Quigley, Group Chief Executive, Everything Different
• Charlie Rudd, Chief Executive, Ogilvy & Mather London

The following members we re-elected:

• Zaid Al-Zaidy, Chief Executive, Above+Beyond
• Ben Bilboul, Chief Executive, Karmarama
• Kate Bruges, Co-Director of Talent, J. Walter Thompson
• Claudine Collins, Managing Director UK, MediaCom
• Sarah Golding, Chief Executive & Partner, CHI & Partners
• Camilla Harrisson, Chief Executive & Partner, Anomaly
• Chris Hirst, Chairman & Chief Executive, Havas UK and Chief Executive, Havas Europe
• Mike Leeson, Managing Director, Golley Slater
• Stephen Maher, Chief Executive, MBA
• James Murphy, Founder & Group Chief Executive, adam&eveDDB
• Melissa Robertson, Chief Executive, Now

Council is the governing body of the IPA. It acts as the legal entity responsible for making the same decisions that a Board would make in a traditional company. It is also the IPA’s main policy-making body and debating forum. Council comprises 42 elected members, each of whom is elected for a three-year term. There are also five ex officio members, namely: the immediate IPA Past President (if still in the employment of a member agency), plus the IPA Chairs of the 44 Club, England & Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.