Politisk kommunikation og marketing i det nye årti. Den 11. maj kl. 15.30 – 18.00 på Københavns Universitet i Chr. Hansen auditoriet, Øster Farimagsgade 5. 1353 København K.

More internationally anchored offers, growth in the Nordics and continued recruitment of the market’s best advisors. This is the mandate for the new management duo – Maria Grimberg and Peter Steere – that will take over as CEOs of JKL Group, part of the global MS&LGroup, on May 1st 2010. Founders Anders Kempe and Anders Lindberg will continue to be active in the company, but from different platforms.

Lotte Glad (43) has been hired as senior advisor by communication consultancy JKL. Lotte comes most recently from software company IntraPoint, where she served as Director of Business Development and Marketing. Her background also includes positions at PA Consulting, SAP Norway and Kvaerner. JKL thus gains a stronger position within corporate communications.

Mads Christian Esbensen overtager stillingen som administrerende direktør for JKL A/S. efter Ditte Kirstein Brammer. Mads Christian Esbensen er en af Danmarks ledende rådgivere inden for public affairs og strategisk kommunikation og kommer nu til at lede JKLs fortsatte vækst. I ledelsesgruppen indgår også de to erfarne og kompetente rådgivere Malin Pettersson og Nikolaj Bøgh.

Publicis Groupe combines MS&L Worldwide, Publicis Consultants and Publicis Events to create a powerful public relations and events network, MS&L Group

As of this date, Cecilie Ditlev-Simonsen is the acting CEO of JKL’s Oslo office. She succeeds Per Høiby, who is leaving JKL.

Lena Smedsaas, commentator on domestic politics at TV4, will join JKL as a consultant at the end of the year. Lena Smedsaas is one of Sweden’s most experienced political journalists and has, among other things, led all of TV4’s party leader debates over the past ten years. She has been with TV4 since its start and previously worked as a journalist for TT (Swedish Central News Agency) and Göteborgsposten.