Thomas Auvray Named Managing Director of Orion in France
Levallois Perret, July 11, 2013 – Orion, which is part of IPG Mediabrands, announced today that Thomas Auvray has been named Managing Director of its French office. Since joining Orion last September as Sales Director, Auvray has been leading the development of the company’s French office, which is a high priority market. He will manage a team of 10 people in France and report to Tom Telesco, President of Orion Trading Worldwide.
Tom Telesco stated, “I am excited to see Thomas step into his new role. He is a true leader and his passion for helping clients succeed will continue to propel both him, and ORION Trading in France, to even greater heights.”
A graduate of l’ESPEME Lille, Auvray began his career in 1996 as Client Services Manager at Acxiom, formerly Claritas France. Eight years later, he left to become the Director of Client Services, Bank Insurance. He has also worked in New Business Development at Experian.
Auvray stated, “My objective is to continue developing alternative ways of financing advertisers’ media campaigns by allowing them to use assets to partially-fund their media expenditures.”
Auvray will work in close collaboration with the IPG Mediabrands’ teams, but also with the French media market.
About ORION Holdings: Orion Holdings, a division of IPG Mediabrands, is a solutions-oriented collection of media companies that support and or complement what traditional media agencies offer to clients. In that spirit, the professionals within Orion Holdings are passionately-focused on providing effective financial and strategic solutions for their clients worldwide. It was established in 1996 and currently has over 800 employees in offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Orion Holdings is a subsidiary of IPG Mediabrands and is 100% owned by Interpublic Group. Orion Holdings includes: Orion Capital (media investments), NSA Media (newspaper services), Orion Trading (barter), OAG and rapport (out-of-home media), Orion Printing (print management), Wahlstrom (local lead generation).
About IPG Mediabrands: Founded by Interpublic Group (NYSE:IPG) in 2007 to manage all of its global media related assets. Today that means we manage and invest $36 billion in global media on the behalf of our clients, employ over 8,500 diverse and daring marketing communication specialists worldwide and operate our company businesses in more than 127 countries. A proven entity in helping clients maximize business results through integrated, intelligence-driven marketing strategies, we are a global holding company that enhances offering and performance across its network of media agencies including UM, Initiative, BPN, Orion Holdings, ID Media and its roster of specialty service agencies including MAGNA GLOBAL, Mediabrands Audience Platform (inclusive of Cadreon, Reprise Media, Ansible, Spring Creek group), the IPG Media Lab, Ensemble and Identity. For more information, please visitwww.ipgmediabrands.com.
