Global communications agency Lewis has widened its east coast footprint with the addition of a new location in New York City.
The San Francisco-based tech agency’s new SoHo digs accounts for Lewis’ fifth U.S. location and 28th global office.
The agency said its Big Apple outpost would complement Lewis' marketing services and research divisions based in Boston and Washington D.C.
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“The timing was perfect because we had several employees that wanted to locate to New York and we also have some clients in New York so it made sense to open it now,” Stephen Corsi, Lewis US executive vice president, told O’Dwyer’s. “It also falls into our plans for expansion into new client verticals and to recruit new talent as well.”
Corsi, who joined the firm in 2012, was tapped to lead the Lewis’ U.S. operations earlier this year. He succeeds executive VP Morgan McLintic, who founded Lewis' U.S. operations in the ’90s and left the agency to start his own tech PR and marketing consultancy, Firebrand.
Lewis, which was founded in 1995 and staffs nearly 600 worldwide, in 2015 accounted for nearly $69 million in net fees.
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