Omnicom’s reshuffled leadership emerges as the ad industry’s new power players

Omnicom began absorbing its former rival Interpublic Group (IPG) this week with a swath of redundancies up and down the org chart.

Among the 4,000 people cut loose across the globe were Susan Credle, global chief creative officer of FCB until last year and most recently global creative advisor for IPG, and Eileen Kiernan, previously the global CEO of IPG Mediabrands (Kiernan didn’t respond to a request for comment).

Just two of IPG’s former leadership group have been lifted into the new C-suite roster leading Omnicom: Philippe Krakowsky, who moves from leading IPG to a co-president and co-COO role at Omnicom and Jacki Kelley, who will be chief client and business officer.

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