Menzies steps up to COO role at Bigmouthmedia
Lyndsay Menzies has been appointed Chief Operations Officer at Bigmouthmedia.
Stepping into the new group role, Menzies takes top-level operational control across the agency’s ten international territories. Responsible for driving the company’s continued integration, she will also oversee an anticipated expansion of operations following Bigmouthmedia’s planned 2009 growth programme.
“As the company continues to grow, ensuring that each new acquisition successfully dovetails with the existing offices requires a dynamic leader capable of implementing best practice across the group, driving synergies and maximising the benefits of our international footprint,” said Steve Leach, group CEO.
Having identified the requirement for a COO the board initially ran a pan-European search for potential recruits, but identified Menzies as the candidate.
“It pays to keep a winning team together, and having worked with Lyndsay for over 10 years I have first hand experience of her tenacious attention to detail and refusal to rest before a job is done. Under her management bigmouthmedia UK has consistently outperformed expectations, and I am delighted that she will now be bringing her unique mix of passion and expertise to this important international role,” added Leach.
The promotion to COO follows Menzies tenure as managing director of bigmouthmedia UK, during which she has driven four consecutive years of exponential growth and seen the company named Britain’s fifth most rapidly growing firm in Deloitte’s Fast 50 Awards. Prior to taking up the role in 2004 she was the agency’s operations director, having joined in 1998.
“I’m looking forward to this challenge, particularly at a time when the economic situation is throwing up a whole new set of opportunities and obstacles. I’ll be working hard to ensure that the group’s international footprint and increasing cultural diversity are fully exploited, and am delighted that I will be taking a senior role in the company’s aggressive plans for acquisitions and growth,” said Menzies.
“As Bigmouthmedia expands into new territories the heads of our international offices will be coping with many of the same issues we once faced in the UK, and that experience should allow me to provide them the support they need to progress,” said Menzies.”