EssenceMediacom world COO Josh Krichefski has been nominated as IPA President-elect to succeed Julian Douglas, vice chairman of VCCP. The election will happen on the IPA AGM in March subsequent yr. The IPA represents UK inventive and media companies.

Krichefski was chosen following a proper three-month choice course of led by former President Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient, who headed up the Presidential Nominating Committee.

Vaz says: “I couldn’t be extra delighted that Josh has agreed to tackle this function. He’s the right individual to guide our trade as we begin the second quarter of 2023. Josh’s vitality and keenness for our enterprise can be invaluable in serving to us all benefit from the alternatives that subsequent yr will inevitably deliver. I do know he can be an excellent President.”

Krichefski says: “I’m actually honoured to have been chosen as the subsequent President of the IPA. I stay up for constructing on the excellent work of my predecessors in championing our trade, its creativity and its impression on the planet. We live by way of a very disruptive interval which is reshaping the financial, social and pure surroundings. How we proceed to adapt as an trade is completely essential as to how we, and our shoppers, will survive and prosper within the years forward.”

PS Right here’s a pub quiz query: which latest IPA president has made the largest distinction?