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City of Buenos Aires, November 2012.- McCann Buenos Aires has announced that Enrico Campochiaro has been promoted to Chief Growth Officer of McCann Buenos Aires, and thus becomes responsible for the integration and growth of all the group’s work units.

“This new position is an excellent and very exciting challenge. The aim is to bring a comprehensive vision to the business. And most importantly to provide communications solutions which will help strengthen our clients’ businesses,” remarks Campochiaro.

The executive joined McCann Buenos Aires in 2008 as Head of Planning. Prior to that he had been Group Account Director for Y&R and a member of the Operations Committee of the agency, where he began his career as a trainee in 1995.

He has worked for brands such as Quilmes, Repsol YPF, General Motors, MasterCard, Nestlé, L’Oreal, Microsoft and Movistar, an account for which he was also Director for Latin America. Throughout his career, he has taken part in projects that have won awards at the most prestigious advertising festivals, such as the Effie, Cannes, New York, London, Clio, FIAP, Platinum Pencil and the Martín Fierro, besides being a jury member for several of them.

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McCann is one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, with operations in over 120 countries.

Based in New York, the agency is a unit of the McCann World Group, the leading global network in communication and marketing solutions, comprising those agencies that stress innovation, creativity and performance.

In Argentina, McCann Buenos Aires works for important clients such as General Motors, MasterCard, L´Oréal, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Bimbo, Google, American Airlines and British American Tobacco.

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