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Young & Rubicam Brands Inc. in Irvine is close to naming a replacement for David Murphy, former North American managing partner at the Orange County shop.
A spokesman said the agency plans to announce the new chief as early as this week.
Murphy resigned from Y&R in November to take a job as president of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide Inc.'s Torrance office. He said he's looking forward to several opportunities at Saatchi: "The opportunity to help diversify an agency, the opportunity to reinvent the type of offerings and creative services the agency has and do it on a much larger scale."
Y&R, a unit of Britain's WPP Group PLC, put a team of people in place to manage the Irvine office in Murphy's absence.
Murphy, 45, held executive positions at Y&R for the past seven years. The shop's most recent wins include Beverly Hillsbased Hilton hotel Corp., worth about $40 million to $50 million.
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