MG OMD appoints Ffitch as MD.(Manning Gottlieb OMD)(Robert Ffitch )

Managing partner promoted to managing director's role 15 years after he helped launch the agency.

Manning Gottlieb OMD has promoted Robert Ffitch to the role of managing director.

Ffitch, a managing partner at the agency, has been made the managing director 15 years after he helped to launch Manning Gottlieb Media as one of its founding members of staff.

His promotion follows a restructure at the agency last October that saw the OMD group chief executive, Nick Manning, install three managing partners - Ffitch, Neil Hurman and Phil Nunn - to run MG OMD.

This followed the departure of the managing director, Alison Wright, who left without a job to go to.

Ffitch was the first employee of Manning Gottlieb Media when it launched in 1990, working closely with Manning and Colin Gottlieb, now the chief executive of OMD Europe. He previously worked with Manning and Gottlieb at CIA.

In 1994, Ffitch became a board director, before moving in 1996 to run Manning Gottlieb's shortlived joint venture with the direct agency MGM Brann. More recently, he has managed key accounts including Virgin Trains.