Omnicom taps Chris Foster to run its PR group
Omnicom Group Inc. has announced the appointment of Chris Foster as CEO of Omnicom Public Relations Group (OPRG) effective 28th June.
Foster will oversee the public relations portfolio within Omnicom, focusing on talent, innovation and cross-agency collaboration to drive growth. Current interim CEO, John Doolittle, will become the Chairman of OPRG.
Chairman and CEO of Omnicom group, John Wren, said: “I am pleased to welcome Chris to Omnicom as CEO of OPRG. With his passion for talent and proven ability to drive growth through innovation, I look forward to OPRG’s continued success under his leadership.”
Interim CEO, John Doolittle, said: “Chris comes to us with significant, hands-on agency leadership experience. His fluency in integrated marketing communications and his data-centered approach will be a tremendous asset to our clients and our business. I am excited to work with Chris as he leads OPRG into the future.”
Foster was previously North America president at BCW. Earlier he was worldwide executive vice president and Chief Business Development Officer at Burson-Marsteller. Earlier he was senior vice president & partner at Booz Allen Hamilton working in both the firm’s commercial and international market sectors.
Foster said: “We’ve learned over the past year the incredible power of communications within an organization to effect real change in how customers, employees and stakeholders think and act, I am excited to join OPRG as CEO, leading our agencies into a new era of data-driven communications, fueled by some of the most creative and innovative minds in the industry.”
Foster is a founding member of the Black Executive CMO Alliance (BECA) founded in April 2021. He was named to PR Week’s “U.S. Power List” in 2018 and has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University School of Continuing Studies, the University of Maryland and Western Kentucky University. In 2017, Foster published his first book, ‘Reputation Strategy and Analytics in a Hyper-Connected World’.
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