Charles Cadell and Prasoon Joshi promoted to lead McCann Worldgroup in Asia Pacific

Charles Cadell has been promoted to the role of Regional President, McCann Worldgroup Asia Pacific, while Prasoon Joshi has been promoted to South Asia President of McCann Worldgroup.

The joint leadership roles for Asia Pacific are designed to maximize collaboration across this key growth region of the world. Effective immediately, Joshi (right) and Cadell (left) will assume their new roles and will report directly to Nick Brien, Chairman & CEO, McCann Worldgroup.

Based in Singapore, Cadel will assume responsibility of managing and growing McCann Worldgroup businesses across Asia Pacific, including China, Japan, Korea and Australia. On 1st December 2011, Yasuyuki Katagi returned to the McCann network as CEO of McCann Worldgroup Japan and Korea and will report into Charles Cadell. Prasoon Joshi will continue to strengthen McCann Worldgroup’s presence across South Asia, represented by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

Michael McLaren, CEO & Chairman, McCann Worldgroup Japan, has returned to New York to assume the newly created role of President of MRM East and Chief Client Solutions Director. In this new role, McLaren will assume executive leadership for the company operations across New York, Princeton and Detroit, including oversight for creative excellence, talent development and growth goals. In addition, McLaren will become executive owner of MRM’s top 20 client relationships, with global leadership across these key accounts as well as driving collaboration across McCann Worldgroup.

“McCann Worldgroup is obsessed with creative excellence, strategic innovation and performance measurement. I am delighted both Charles and Prasoon have accepted the challenge to collaborate and lead the Asia Pacific and South Asia regions, as both are critically important roles for the global group,” said Nick Brien, Chairman & CEO, McCann Worldgroup. “McCann Worldgroup has positioned itself for an ambitious growth strategy and realigning the region under Charles’ and Prasoon’s leadership will drive deeper collaboration plus allow us to accelerate investment opportunities in a more cohesive manner.”

Nick Brien also stated: “Michael has done a terrific job in Japan and this provides an excellent opportunity to build on that experience within MRM. Michael shares our passion for creative excellence, innovation and performance and I have every confidence in his ability to successfully help Bill Kolb to build MRM into a world-class powerhouse.”