GroupM promotes two senior managers

GroupM has promoted two senior managers to head the digital and technology areas in Malaysia – Edmund Wong (left) as GroupM head of technology, a newly-created position, and Ridhuan Sidek (right) to lead GroupM interaction.Girish Menon, CEO of GroupM Malaysia said: “Ridhuan and Edmund have virtually re-written their job scopes every few months since they joined us. I am thrilled that they are both moving into exciting and challenging new positions that are worthy of their skills."Edmund joined the GroupM family in 2008 as the head of mobile. In 2011, he took over as the head of digital for Mindshare and supervised a period of rapid growth which saw Mindshare’s digital revenue more than doubling within two years. Edmund will be responsible for internal process automation, licensing technology and developing new products as well as creating a long-term technology road map for the group.Ridhuan as head of GroupM interaction takes over from Joni Leimala, who is now chief strategy officer. In his new role, Ridhuan will be responsible for integrating the newly-acquired Vocanic operations, expanding GroupM’s digital creative capabilities and integrating digital solutions with GroupM’s activation and content offerings.