What Happened?
New York, NY-based Interpublic Group has Promoted John Halper as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Interpublic is one of the world`s premier advertising and marketing services companies. Our agency brands deliver custom marketing solutions to many of the world`s largest advertisers. We cover the spectrum of marketing disciplines and specialties, from public relations and consumer advertising, to mobile and search engine marketing. Our client solutions vary from project-based activity involving one agency and its client to long-term, fully-integrated campaigns created by a group of our companies working together on behalf of a client. With offices in over 100 countries, we can operate in a single region or align work globally across all major world markets. Interpublic employs approximately 50,200 marketing professionals. Based in New York City, Interpublic sets company-wide financial objectives and corporate strategy, directs collaborative inter-agency programs, establishes financial management and operational controls, guides personnel policy, conducts investor relations and initiates, manages and approves mergers and acquisitions. In addition, we provide limited centralized functional services that offer our companies operational efficiencies, including accounting and finance, marketing information retrieval and analysis, legal services, real estate expertise, travel services, recruitment aid, employee benefits and executive compensation management.
About the Person
John Halper is Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG). He has held the position of Chief Application Officer (CAO) at IPG and has held Senior IT Leadership roles at Aventis, Vivendi Universal, Joseph E. Seagrams and Sons, and Nabisco. Mr. Halper joined IPG in 2006 as IPG’s CAO. He was responsible for developing, implementing, and supporting enterprise applications that are used across IPG Operating Companies, globally. This includes, ERP Platforms, HR/Payroll, Office Automation, and Budgeting, Forecasting, & Reporting. At Aventis, Mr. Halper was responsible for Global IT Planning and Program Management. In this role he was responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance (FDA, SOX, Data Privacy) and providing Program Management for Key IT initiatives (including Infrastructure Consolidations and ERP Implementations). He also developed the company’s SAP Strategy and Architecture to lead the SAP consolidation initiative. Prior to joining Aventis, Mr. Halper served as Vice President of Corporate Applications and Head of IT Planning, Program Management & Communications for Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. and subsequently for Vivendi Universal following the acquisition of Seagram by Vivendi. At Seagram, Mr. Halper led an IT Integration Program that yielded over $100M in IT synergies in the Seagram-Vivendi merger. In his role as VP of Corporate Applications he managed a staff of 120 IT professionals supporting HR/Payroll, Finance, Tax, and Legal applications. At Nabisco, Inc. Mr. Halper served as Senior Director of Project Management & Strategic Planning, responsible for IT Financial Management, IT Strategic Planning and IT Program Management. He also was Program Director of Nabisco’s Y2K program, overseeing all IT and non-IT Y2K activities. John received a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from Virginia Tech in 1981.
Info Source
News
Short Profile