Executive will remain chairman of the agency until March 2024
Jeffrey Sharlach, founder of JeffreyGroup, announced that he will retire at the end of March.
During his 47-year career, Sharlach held leadership roles at Carl Byoir & Associates (now Hill & Knowlton), Burson-Marsteller (now BCW) and Saatchi & Saatchi in New York City, before launching JeffreyGroup in Miami in the year 1993.
Currently, JeffreyGroup has six offices that serve brands such as Airbus, Amazon, American Airlines, Bayer, Disney, Marriott, Mastercard and Salesforce.
From the beginning, it was clear to me that if we wanted to compete with the big agencies, we needed to differentiate ourselves in the way we worked, not in the services themselves. For JeffreyGroup, this meant focusing on customer service, being proactive and committed to delivering meaningful results, with senior professionals who always remain close to customers, said Sharlach.
The executive, who serves as Chairman of JeffreyGroup, stepped down as CEO in 2015, handing over leadership of the agency to Brian Burlingame.
In 2022, JeffreyGroup was acquired by WPP and became part of the Hill & Knowlton (H&K) group. At that time, Burlingame became CEO of H&K in Latin America, while also maintaining his role as regional CEO at JeffreyGroup.
This year feels like the perfect time to retire from JeffreyGroup. We have successfully transitioned from a private company to proudly becoming part of WPP and H&K, offering our clients access to a growing range of world-class capabilities, especially in data intelligence, and providing exciting career paths for our team, in addition to additional services, concluded Sharlach.
