Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. (San Antonio, TX) has named William Eccleshare president and CEO of Clear Channel Intl. (CCI), effective September 2009. In this position, Eccleshare will be responsible for all of Clear Channel Outdoor’s businesses outside the Americas, and report to Mark Mays, CEO, Clear Channel Outdoor.
Eccleshare, 52, will join Clear Channel from BBDO Europe, a major marketing-communications agency, where he was chairman and CEO and responsible for all BBDO advertising, direct marketing, digital, and public-relations agencies in 44 countries. Prior to that, he was chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam EMEA. He also held senior executive roles at McKinsey & Company and J Walter Thomson.
Eccleshare holds a master’s in history from Trinity College Cambridge. He is married with three children.