 Tony Hynes |
Hynes succeeds former CEO Joshua Reynolds, who left the San Francisco-based consumer and B2B technology agency last year to join social media data analytics company Quantifind as head of marketing.
Hynes joins Blanc & Otus from Burson-Marsteller tech start-up North of Nine Communications, where he served as partner. Prior to that, he was general manager and executive VP at Interpublic powerhouse Weber Shandwick, where he led that agency’s San Francisco outpost. He was also previously general manager at Next Fifteen’s Bite Communications and held Director roles at Hitachi Data Systems and Burson-Marsteller. Earlier in his career, he was an account director at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide.
Hynes will also serve in the dual role of Hill+Knowlton executive VP.
WPP unit Blanc & Otus was founded in 1985.
Brittany Sullivan, who held the senior VP-executive director of marketing post at Golin, has moved to Burson.
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