Johannes Leonardo names former Deutsch partner as CEO
Johannes Leonardo has appointed Michael Duda as chief executive officer, effective immediately, following a series of hires this year.
Duda has been tasked with overseeing the creative agency’s operations, teams and clients, as well as leveraging his business development acumen to further strengthen the agency’s ability to ignite profitable conversations for clients.
He joined from Consigliere Brand Capital, a marketing management consultancy and investment fund, where he was co-founder and managing partner where he advised and developed start-ups and brands like Boston Beer Company, Chobani, Under Armour, Birchbox and Warby Parker .
Duda will remain an investor in Consigliere, while Johannes Leonardo will also look for opportunities to partner with the company.
Prior to that, Duda spent over a decade as a partner at Deutsch.
“I flat-out missed the unique talent, culture and impact that an agency can truly have,” said Duda on his return to the creative industry. “Jan and Leo [Jacobs and Premutico, agency co-founders and chief creative officers] are an elite level of creative minds who have wonderfully high standards, something I look forward to helping build upon. The agency is hungry, ambitious and uniquely equipped to tackle the complexities that today’s business and clients are challenged by. I am honoured and ready to help Johannes Leonardo become an even more renowned agency and place to work.”
Additionally, the agency will move to a larger office space in SoHo, at 628 Broadway, before the end of the year.