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Weber Shandwick Promotes Lisa Popplewell and Alex Kelly to New Leaders
Thu, Jan 28 2010
Sydney, 28 January 2010, Weber Shandwick has announced two key senior promotions in Sydney. Lisa Popplewell has been promoted to general manager of the Australian business and Alex Kelly has been promoted to senior vice president and head of client services in Australia, with an additional remit for growing the firm's regional food and beverage business across all Asia Pacific markets. Both executives will continue to report directly to the managing director, Emma-Jane (E-J) Granleese, and will support her in driving the strategic direction of the business in Australia. Granleese commented on the promotions, "Under Lisa's leadership, our technology practice has gone from strength-to-strength with client wins such as VHA (Vodafone Hutchison), SAS and Samsung. Alex has also done an outstanding job in growing our consumer offer three-fold over the last four years and has driven award winning work for clients such as Unilever Singapore Airlines, Nestle and Johnson & Johnson. They both have outstanding attributes to take on a broader management role within the business. These are hugely deserved promotions, setting us up for another great year in 2010." said Granleese. Weber Shandwick is the current AdNews 'Agency of the Year' and most recently won the Asia Pacific PR Award for best healthcare ethical campaign of the year.