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NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Ogilvy Public Relations announced today that Dan Goodman has been appointed Senior Vice President of Business Development for North America based in New York. He will be in charge of identifying and driving new business growth for Ogilvy PR North America – working with the network's 8 offices across the region. Dan will report to Suresh Raj, Global Chief Business Development Officer who is also based in New York.

"Dan's business acumen will be instrumental in helping the company strengthen its North America offering, building a wider spectrum of business opportunities across the region, and ensuring business development focused activities to efficiently identify and secure potential leads," said Raj. "Dan's background in the advertising industry is an incredible asset to help us engage with decision makers that include chief marketing officers, in addition to PR professionals - an enormous asset that will help us crystallize, integrate, and deliver more relevant solutions on regional and national briefs."

Goodman joins Ogilvy PR from Newsweek, where he was in charge of identifying and establishing business opportunities to increase the company's visibility. Prior to working at Newsweek, Dan worked at Y&R, one of the world's leading full service advertising agencies and part of the WPP family where he oversaw global operations, developed new business initiatives, and identified revenue opportunities.

"Ogilvy's long standing history of innovation, creativity, and constant evolution have been at the core of the agency since its beginning," said Dan. "I'm thrilled to rejoin the WPP family and be part of such a talented group where I'm able to leverage my advertising and media experience to help the organization develop more relevant opportunities in the world of earned media."

About Ogilvy Public Relations

Ogilvy Public Relations (Ogilvy) is an award winning, multi-disciplinary, communications leader operating in more than 85 offices from every corner of the globe. In 2016, for the fifth consecutive year, it was crowned Cannes Lions Network of the Year and Ogilvy tops the Global Creative Index by the Holmes Report, where it has consistently ranked no. 1 or 2 since 2012. Ogilvy is the 2016 recipient of the PRWeek Global Creative Campaign of the Year and Non Profit Campaign of the Year, and holds the Consultancy of the Year titles in Asia Pacific and the Middle East by the Holmes Report. Ogilvy PR is a unit of Ogilvy & Mather, a WPP company (NASDAQ: WPPGY), and deeply integrates with all disciplines (advertising, content+social, direct marketing, activation, promotional, and entertainment). For more information, visit our website at www.ogilvypr.com or follow us at @ogilvypr.

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