Havas Media Group, the media division of the global marketing and communications group Havas, has announced the appointment Carolyn Keegan as Ad Operations Director. The role will see Keegan focus on ensuring best practice across data and ad operational capabilities for all Havas Media clients.
Working alongside the digital account team and clients, she will lead a team of specialists ensuring high standards around campaign management as well as helping clients understand the value of data as they drive growth.
Welcoming Keegan to the team, Kevin Fernandes, Havas Media Head of products, said, “In the past year, we’ve made massive strides as an agency to refocus on the importance of keeping consumers at the heart of all media experiences. This has led to an even more important reasoning around how data sits across all our brands. Carolyn’s vast experience and meticulous work ethic will not only help accelerate the digital transformation clients are demanding, it will also help tick every box when it comes to best in class and secure management of our client’s data assets. We’re all excited to have Carolyn onboard.”
On taking up the new role, Keegan said, “I look forward to working alongside Kevin and the digital team at Havas Media, as we continue to build on existing data capabilities and ensure a seamless experience for our clients. I am incredibly excited about the opportunity to step into this role and join such a dynamic agency.”
Caroyln Keegan started off her career journey as Digital Coordinator at Digital Chameleon Learning, later moved to Nine, where she spent two years as team lead – campaign operations, responsible for premium campaigns and performance activity via 9Optimum. She previously worked as senior campaign manager at Mamamia and, in an earlier stint at Nine, in roles spanning advertising sales, campaigns, audience and programmatic and technical operations. At Nine, she managed a team of Campaign Managers & Ad Operations Executives and was responsible for premium handheld campaigns as well as performance activity via 9Optimum.She was also responsible for improving productivity by eliminating non-value-add activities and minimizing team error rate. She strived towards delivery of key business priorities and complex technical projects such as platform migrations and worked closely with inter-departmental peers on product roll outs and business priorities.
About Havas Group
Havas Group is one of the world’s largest global communications groups. Founded in 1835 by Charles Louis Havas, the Group employs more than 19,000 people in over 100 countries. Havas is organised into three main business units: Creative, Media and Health & Wellness communication. Havas Group deals with advertising, analytics and decision sciences, brand design, brand strategy, content studio, digital commerce, direct marketing, engagement planning, experience design, health & wellness, luxury, innovation, media, mobile marketing, product development, PR & Corporate communications and social marketing.
