Chiat Leaves N.Y. Job
Jay Chiat, chief executive of the ad firm Chiat/Day, will no longer be running the agency’s New York office.
On Tuesday, Chiat named Jane Newman, who had been executive vice president and general manager of the agency’s New York office, as president and chief executive of the New York operation. The office posts annual billings of $150 million.
Newman, 40, was named general manager last year. Chiat said Newman’s promotion was overdue. “Jane has been entirely responsible for the management of the New York office,” Chiat said. “I decided to give credit where credit is due.”
Newman joined Chiat/Day in 1981 when Chiat hired her to help coordinate account planning between the agency’s offices in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Prior to that, she was a vice president at the New York ad firm Ammirati & Puris.
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