Infinite Spada Announces Global Leadership Change

Jamie Diaferia Succeeds Gavin Ingham Brooke as Global CEO, Zach Olsen Takes Helm as President

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Apr 19, 2016, 01:18 ET

NEW YORK, April 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinite Spada, the world's leading specialist professional services communications consulting firm, today announces the purchase of agency founder Gavin Ingham Brooke's majority shareholding by a management team for an undisclosed sum. Ingham Brooke, who founded legacy agency Spada Ltd in London nearly 22 years ago, will step down from the role of chief executive and become Of Counsel to the agency.

Co-founder Jamie Diaferia, who established Infinite PR 15 years ago in New York, heads the management buyout team and will become Infinite Spada's new global CEO and majority owner. He will be joined on Infinite Spada's Global Board by Zach Olsen who heads the company's San Francisco office and takes over as the global President.

"I am honored to continue what Gavin started in London more than 20 years ago," Diaferia says. "Under his leadership Spada grew to become the go-to PR agency for professional services firms. I'm looking forward to leading Infinite into the future alongside the smartest, most successful team in the business, and continuing to grow our Communications and PR, Branding and Content services."

Infinite Spada's London management team will be led by Chief Operating Officer Isabel Podda and Directors Scott Addison, Ryan McSharry and Bruce Wraight.

"We look forward to the future with great excitement and with reverence to our esteemed history," said Olsen. "Our clients around the globe trust us with their most sensitive and valuable of assets – their reputations – and we will continue to serve them diligently while looking for ways to grow and expand our capabilities in the U.S. and abroad."

About Infinite Spada:

Infinite Spada is an award-winning global communications agency dedicated to serving the professional services market. Formed by the 2014 merger of US-based Infinite PR and UK-based Spada, Infinite Spada has more than 45 consultants in offices in New York, San Francisco, Research Triangle and London. We transform perceptions of businesses through insight-led media engagement, digital consultancy, strategic branding and in-depth research. For more information, visit http://infinitespada.com/.

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