JWT promotes internally

Singapore - JWT has promoted senior account director, Thomas Ong to the role of group account director.

Ong, who joined in 2006, had been managing the HSBC account together with other agencies like MindShare and XM and is tasked to lead all HSBC business units as well as its Unicharm and Monster accounts.

In other news, JWT London CEO, Allison Burns will return to New York to take up the new role of global client services director. Burns will be shuttling between London and New York to aid in the transition of roles before she takes on her new position officially in early 2009.

Burns reports to JWT's Rosemarie Ryan and Ty Montague, president and co-president New York, respectively. A London CEO successor to Burns will be named later this year.