Gary Wenzel Named President TBWA\WorldHealth

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Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:53am EST

TBWA\WorldHealth New York names Steve Pashkoff as its Executive Creative
Director



NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TBWA Worldwide today announced the
appointment of Gary Wenzel as President, TBWA\WorldHealth. Wenzel was
previously Chief Operating Officer of TBWA\Hakuhodo in Tokyo.  He will be
based in New York, and report to Tom Carroll, President & CEO, TBWA Worldwide.
TBWA\WorldHealth New York also announced today the appointment of Steve
Pashkoff as Executive Creative Director.

Formed in 2002, TBWA\WorldHealth integrates the comprehensive expertise of
professional pharmaceutical and healthcare agencies with TBWA's approach to
driving growth built on the practices of Disruption and Media Arts.
TBWA\WorldHealth is headquartered in New York and has international hub
offices in London, Paris, Mexico City and Hamburg, along with local offices
throughout Europe and Asia. It services globally or regionally brands from
Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, and
Schering-Plough, among others.

"With the diversity in healthcare offerings and differences in regulatory,
more clients are coming to TBWA to help them build and manage their brands
globally. Gary's experience in leading global clients like Nissan, as well as
managing one of our key international offices makes him uniquely qualified to
take over a very important global role for us," said Carroll.

Wenzel joined TBWA in 2001 as President & CEO of \G1 Worldwide, a joint
venture between TBWA Worldwide and Hakuhodo, to manage and develop the Nissan
business globally, and ultimately became a founding partner in TBWA\Hakuhodo
in 2006, assuming the role of Chief Operating Officer for the agency that
handles accounts such as Nissan, Apple, adidas and Haagen-Dazs.

Wenzel is a Stanford graduate and has an MBA from UCLA. Wenzel has extensive
experience in all facets of marketing and advertising. At RPA in the US,
before joining TBWA, he was Director of Account Services, which included
research and account planning groups for all of the agencies accounts and
prior to RPA, he did a three-year stint with Levi Strauss & Co. 

Wenzel's experience spans a wide range of other blue chip global and American
brands including Procter & Gamble, McDonald's, Kellogg's, Microsoft, Philips
Electronics, ARCO, ampm, and various telecom and Internet-related companies.

"We have worked very hard to find the best talent in the business to bolster
the agency's healthcare offering. Steve brings with him 28 years of
advertising experience, the last 12 of which have been solely devoted to
pharmaceutical healthcare. His appointment puts in place the talent needed to
grow and better serve our clients," said Mark Figliulo, Chairman and Chief
Creative Officer, TBWA\Chiat\Day New York.

Prior to joining TBWA, Steve was the Chief Creative Officer for Evologue, a
CommonHealth Company. There he helped AZ launch Symbicort, created the first
ever compliance only ad campaign for Toprol-XL, as well as created award
winning communications for Novartis Vaccines, Bayer Women's Health, and
Reckitt-Benckiser Inc.

While at Saatchi Healthcare, Steve re-launched Prilosec, creating The Purple
Pill and later building upon Prilosec's equity, created The New Purple Pill
for Nexium. His work on those two brands was instrumental in AZ awarding
Crestor to Saatchi where Steve created the Mandy Patinkin campaign.

Steve began his career at Grey working on P&G, Playtex, and Swift Premium, and
Clairol brands. Later working on Bristol-Myers Squibb brands like Keri Lotion,
Ban and Excedrin. A New Yorker, born and raised, Steve currently lives in
Brooklyn with his wife and new baby daughter.

About TBWA Worldwide
TBWA Worldwide (www.tbwa.com) creates Disruptive ideas for global clients,
including ABSOLUT, adidas, Apple, Beiersdorf, GSK, Henkel, Infiniti, Mars,
McDonald's, Michelin, Nissan, Pernod Ricard, Samsonite, Standard Chartered
Bank, Singapore Airlines, Sony PlayStation and Visa. TBWA is one of the
fastest-growing networks in the Top-Ten worldwide advertising agencies, and
was named 2008 Global Agency of the Year by Advertising Age and Adweek,
magazines. Fast Company Magazine placed TBWA 24th on its 2009 list of "The
World's 50 Most Innovative Companies."  TBWA has 267 offices in 77 countries,
and approximately 11,000 employees worldwide.

TBWA is part of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com), a
leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's
branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic
media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and
promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications
services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

SOURCE  TBWA Worldwide

Jeremy Miller, +1-212-804-1162, jeremy.miller@tbwaworld.com, or Marianne
Stefanowicz, +1-212-804-1167, Marianne.stefanowicz@tbwaworld.com
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