Breaking: Ogilvy CFO Gets Poached By McCann! WTF?

Ogilvy’s CFO, John Lanaway is leaving to join Interpublic as of November 1st. Lanaway is going to…. OMG! McCann? Seriously…. really? It’s confirmed, folks. We hear that… he was recruited by Gary Lee, Ogilvy’s former CFO for North America who is now at McCann.

Okay, so keep paying attention. Lanaway took Lee’s role at Ogilvy when Gary went to McCann and now, Lee is bringing him back over. Is this some sort of co-dependent relationship? How much cash does McCann have to lay out to get someone to take up space on their death star?

Anyway, McCann needs to start stealing creatives or is it that the creatives are being stifled by over bearing, scared out of their mind managers? Hmm…. Their Applebee’s work is totally phoned-in. They make blind, stupid large scale creative mistakes like this one. And if you ask us, they’re not doing justice to one of their major clients, L’Oreal. Need some evidence? Try here and here.

Plus, Lanaway’s departure comes right quickly on the heels of new Google employee Andy Berndt, who was Ogilvy’s Managing Director and Co-President. Read More Here. While we understand jumping ship for Google, we do not, we repeat, do not understand departing for McCann.

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