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Walker quits amid mass adulation - but is her leaving permanent?

Publication: Marketing Week
Publication Date: 03-MAY-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Walker quits amid mass adulation - but is her leaving permanent?(Christine Walker of Walker Media )

Article Excerpt
The ebullient and outspoken Christine Walker has announced her retirement a decade after founding Walker Media with Phil Georgiadis.

The head of the eponymous media agency intends to leave the industry following an announcement to the Stock Exchange, as exclusively revealed on marketingweek.co.uk.

Advertising and media executives are almost as one in hailing her charisma and success, while lamenting the loss of one of adland's "true" characters.

The former chief executive of Zenith, now ZenithOptimedia, launched Walker Media with M&C Saatchi in 1997, with Dixons as its founding client.

Thinkbox chief executive Tess Alps, a friend of Walker, says: "It was no mean feat to launch a media independent when she did. At the time...

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