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MSQ Expands into North America with Raft of New Hires

15/07/2021
Marketing & PR
London, UK
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Aaron Lang and Justin Cox join from Deloitte Digital to lead the new MSQ multi-disciplinary offers

MSQ, one of the world’s fastest-growing marketing groups, is expanding its multidisciplinary offer in North America to give clients better and easier access to integrated marketing services through a number of senior hires.

The group has appointed Aaron Lang as the first President of MSQ North America. Lang joins the business from Deloitte Digital, where he was a managing director within their advertising, marketing and commerce group. He will report directly to MSQ’s chief executive, Peter Reid.

Prior to his role at Deloitte, Lang oversaw the work that led to San Francisco based agency Heat winning Adweek’s Breakthrough Agency of the Year and subsequent acquisition to Deloitte in 2016.

Lang will be joined at MSQ by Justin Cox, who becomes the group’s first chief strategy officer, North America. Cox was most recently general manager and chief strategy officer at Deloitte Digital’s Heat, and will work closely with Lang in developing the MSQ offer in the region. 

With previous stints at agencies including Publicis & Hal Riney, Pereira O’Dell and DDB California, Cox strategically led Heat to be named the #1 Most Effective Independent Agency at the Effies.

Rounding out the MSQ US team are several other key leadership hires across the newly expanded group proposition. Mike DaRe and Sheila Hozhabri have joined the business to launch Smarts, MSQ’s Cultural Comms and PR agency, in North America for the first time. Susan Levy has joined as General Manager to relaunch branding shop Holmes & Marchant New York, and Nancy Aresu has been appointed as the President of The Gate New York, MSQ’s creative and media agency. Meanwhile, Susan Guerrero was last year promoted to Chief Operating Officer to lead Stein IAS in the US, MSQ’s award-winning B2B agency.

The leadership team will work closely together to bring MSQ’s joined-up thinking proposition to life, driving a group of diverse thinkers who use human insight, technology and creativity to help brands thrive, adapt and disrupt in today’s world. 

The investment means that five of MSQ’s nine agencies now have a presence in North America. Further capabilities and services – such as MSQ’s new dynamic content production and delivery offer that makes insight-driven personalisation of creative content a possibility for clients of all investment levels – will also be rolled out in the region throughout 2021. 

Peter Reid, chief executive of MSQ, says: “MSQ has been growing rapidly and evolving our multi-disciplinary proposition on an international level is the key next step in our journey. We have an agile, accessible model that offers clients world-class creative and strategic thinking on a global and local level, and by creating these new roles – and bringing in such leading industry talent to fill them – we’re confident that our proven joined-up model will thrive in the US market." 

Lang says: “MSQ’s proposition is perfect for ambitious brands in North America looking for a marketing partner who can help them deal with the change that’s happening in every aspect of their business and their customers’ lives. Too often clients either end up getting entangled in big holding companies or are unable to access the integrated capabilities they need from individual agencies. MSQ is able to offer a unique multidisciplinary approach and I look forward to working with the talented new leadership team to bring that approach to life.”

MSQ was founded in 2011 and has since grown to more than 800 people working in 9 agencies across 12 international offices. In 2020 the group became one of the first marketing agencies of its size to be a fully Carbon Negative business. Last month MSQ announced record revenues of $132 million for the financial year ending February 2021, with gross profit increasing by a further 20% for the first two months of the new financial year. 

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