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Saatchis and Grey do battle for Sony marketing chief to fill vacant CEO posts.
Grey and Saatchi & Saatchi are fighting it out to hire David Patton, Sony's senior vice-president of communications for Europe, to fill their vacant chief executive roles.
Grey has already offered the role to the high-profile Sony marketer, but he is also one of three candidates that has been shortlisted for the CEO job at Saatchi & Saatchi.
Kevin Roberts, Saatchis' worldwide chief executive, is due to fly in and vet the final candidates this week.
Grace Blue, the headhunting company set up by Gay Haines, is thought to have put Patton forward for both roles.
The role at Grey became available in January this year, when the former chief executive, Tamara Ingram, left the post to take on the leadership of the dollars 1 billion global Procter & Gamble account.
The Saatchis job came up for grabs a month later when Lee Daley, the chairman and chief executive, departed the agency to become the global commercial ...