NEW YORK - GroupM's leading flagship Mindshare(传立媒体), today named Colin Kinsella as its new Chief Executive Officer for North America, replacing Antony Young(杨东念), who will remain with Mindshare while shifting his focus to global business projects and development. The announcement was made by Mindshare Global CEO Nick Emery, who added that Kinsella’s appointment is effective July 15. “Our challenge as a business is to realize media's potential to be our client's lead business partner,” Emery said in making the announcement. “Everything begins and ends in media, and Colin's leadership will ensure that Mindshare is a business partner above and beyond the conventional.” “I want to thank Antony for leading North America for the past 20 months and for his many contributions to the success of our agency,” Emery said. “He did excellent work, bringing us a fresh perspective and new ideas.” Kinsella comes to Mindshare with more than 20 years of experience in traditional and digital advertising. Most recently he was CEO North America for Digitas, a Publicis agency. In that role, he was responsible for driving growth, innovation and collaboration across the agency’s largest region. Previously in his career, Kinsella served as Global Chief Innovation Officer for Razorfish, a role he was appointed to in May 2009 after working as president of the agency’s Western region. Prior to joining Razorfish in 2004, Kinsella led creative, strategy and business-to-business efforts at QuinStreet, a startup specializing in online marketing and technology, which he joined after working for 14 years in a range of leadership roles at Foote Cone and Belding in San Francisco, London and Chicago. As CEO of Mindshare North America, Kinsella will be responsible for the management and operation of all Mindshare activities in five U.S. cities and Canada, overseeing an agency with more than 800 employees and more than $9 billion in billings (Source: RECMA). “I’m very excited about this new opportunity,” Kinsella said. “I've admired Mindshare for years and am a big believer in the agency's goal of becoming their clients’ lead business partner. Their adaptive marketing perspective is tailor made to lead in this new era of utilizing real-time consumer data to rapidly initiate, alter and optimize client marketing efforts.”