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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

Joseph Farrelly is Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) one of the world's leading organizations or advertising agencies and marketing-services companies. He has held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Aventis, Vivendi Universal, Joseph E. Seagrams and Sons, and Nabisco. At Aventis, Mr. Farrelly was responsible for an IT organization that operated on a worldwide basis supporting the company's $20 billion global pharma business. He oversaw the implementation of major IT solutions to support the company's global business re-engineering initiatives based on SAP, Seibel, and Ariba platforms, as well as the development of standard IT architecture and infrastructure. He was also responsible for implementing the IT governance model for Aventis, maintaining relations with key IT partners, and was a member of the Aventis Operations Management Committee. Prior to joining Aventis, Mr. Farrelly served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. In addition to its Spirits & Wine division, Seagram also included Universal Music Group and Universal Studios. At Seagram, Mr. Farrelly had global responsibility for the company's information systems and telecommunications, including standards, policies, processes and structure. He was part of a team that led the development of an enterprise-wide systems architecture, the development of IS-wide standards and the creation of a global infrastructure to support all of the company's business groups. He was also responsible for the development of global solutions for HR and Finance. With the merger of Seagrams and Vivendi, Mr. Farrelly successfully managed the IT integration activities and was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the newly formed Vivendi Universal Company. At Nabisco, Inc. Mr. Farrelly was Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer where he was responsible for setting the overall direction of the company's information technology initiatives and directing its information services strategic and operational objectives. He created a “best in class” IT infrastructure services group, and successfully implemented major applications, including a large-scale SAP order management system and “best of breed” manufacturing & distribution suite. Mr. Farrelly is a member of the Boards of Directors of Aperture Technologies, Inc., NetNumber and Tango Networks.