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| Chris Hamilton |
Interpublic’s Current Global arm has hired Chris Hamilton as senior VP-media relations.
Most recently, Hamilton was head of US media for Publicis Groupe’s MSLGroup, where he generated earned media results for clients such as Procter & Gamble, Emirates Airlines, Home Depot, Campbell Soup and Mike’s Hard Lemonade.
He also was corporate media director at WPP’s BCW (IHOP, Pitney Bowles, Moet Hennessy and King’s Hawaiian) and VP-financial and consumer media at Omnicom’s Ketchum (7-Eleven, Chase, Frito-Lay, and MasterCard).
Hamilton reports to Current Global North America president Amy Colton.


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