5 Minutes with… Ioana Filip, MRM UK CCO MRM UK’s new chief creative officer on growing up in a family of engineers, her intensive crash course in small town America and why deep understanding of machine learning is crucial for creatives 5 Minutes with… Ioana Filip Having grown up and begun her advertising career in Romania before moving to Chicago for a few years, Ioana Filip lands in London as MRM UK’s new chief creative officer with a unique set of experiences behind her. Along the way she even studied AI at MIT. Ioana started as a junior copywriter at JWT Romania and rapidly progressed. Within six years she was group creative director at McCann Romania. MRM’s global chief creative officer Ronald Ng described her career trajectory from that point on well when the network announced her appointment: “Ioana led MRM Romania to greatness, then went on to smash it in the US market and after being ranked top 10 most awarded creatives in the US this year, it’s time to come home to MRM.
National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) is observed annually in the month of October. It celebrates the contributions of America’s workers with disabilities past and present and showcases supportive, inclusive employment policies and practices. This year’s theme for NDEAM is “Disability: Part of the Equity Equation,” to recognize the role people with disabilities play in a diverse and inclusive workforce. MRM continues to strengthen its partnership with Creative Spirit, which works to provide employment opportunities for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. This October, MRM was honored in an exclusive event hosted by Creative Spirit during NY’s Advertising Week. Watch the video linked below.
MRM Global Chief Technology Officer Jayna Kothary Named Most Innovative Leader of 2022 on Fast Company's Fourth Annual List of 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators NEWS PROVIDED BY MRM Aug 02, 2022, 12:11 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fast Company today named Jayna Kothary, MRM's Global Chief Technology Officer, as the Most Innovative Leader of the Year in its fourth annual Best Workplaces for Innovators list. Fast Company wrote: "The first woman to serve as global CTO at marketing agency MRM, Kothary opened the company's innovation hub, Lab13, to make its tools accessible to all employees; and launched a new innovation-as-a-service offering that allows clients to access MRM's multidisciplinary expertise on a subscription basis, leading to new work with such brands as Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and Amazon." The magazine also named four runners-up to Kothary from across the world of business. The Innovators issue honors organizations and businesses that demonstrate a steadfast commitment to encouraging innovation at all levels.
“Creativity Is a Team Sport”: Ronald Ng on the Democratisation of Ideas The global CCO of MRM speaks to LBB’s Addison Capper about not going it alone in a new job and why “business inspired purpose” is the next stage of brand’s doing good for the world “Creativity Is a Team Sport”: Ronald Ng on the Democratisation of Ideas Creative leaders approach their jobs in different ways. There are those who prefer to be more of a lone ranger among leadership, left to their own devices to (hopefully) make great work and make their agency and its clients famous. Ronald Ng isn’t one of those leaders. Ronald joined MRM as its global chief creative officer around 18 months ago, in December 2020, under one main condition: that he would achieve the agency’s goals as a team. “You join companies for what they stand for,” he told me recently during a chat at Cannes Lions. Read the full story via Little Black Book
MRM has welcomed Diana Ceausu Caverly as global chief strategy officer. She joins from within the McCann WorldGroup network, where she was most recently EVP, Global Head of Strategy & Innovation for IPG’s General Motors account. She will report directly to MRM global chairwoman and CEO Kate MacNevin and work closely with the agency’s senior leadership team to strengthen its strategic vision and output. As a true global citizen, Caverly has worked on brands across nearly all seven continents to help drive transformation at scale and innovate at the intersections of culture and commerce. This new role continues her experience within McCann Worldgroup, which began when she originally joined McCann in her native Bucharest, before crossing the Atlantic to work at Commonwealth//McCann in Detroit.
