MEC Global Solutions strengthens digital team

The company has appointed three digital experts - Ben Rickard, Richard Davies and Mudit Jaju.

MEC Global Solutions has made three senior level hires - Ben Rickard, Richard Davies and Mudit Jaju.

They will be based in London.

Ben Rickard joins as digital partner, and will be responsible for driving the agency's mobile offering for clients across EMEA. His focus will be on the intelligent application of data. He comes in from JWT where he headed the mobile division and was responsible for the launch of JWT NOW.

Richard Davies joins as digital partner, and will be responsible for heading the digital team on the global Vodafone account. He has nearly 20 years of experience across search, customer insight and CRM. Most recently, he worked as media partner at VCCP.

Mudit Jaju joins as digital partner too. A WPP MBA Fellow, he graduated from Yale and worked at comScore previously. In his new role, he will work on digital product development and innovation initiatives across clients.

Jeff Hyams, chief digital officer, Global Solutions and EMEA, MEC, says, "We have a vision of how we need to evolve and part of this is through creating a thriving digital culture across the whole of our business. Encouraging new ways of thinking and doing and adding key specialist talent helps this process."