Twas a busy day at camp McCann as the Worldgroup has made several promotions within its leadership ranks. Among those getting a bump-up are Michael McLaren, formerly MRM East president and global client solutions director, who has now been made president of MRM’s worldwide operations.

While we’re on the MRM front, Hank Summy, who joined McCann from Sapient in fall 2011 to serve as president, North America, will now serve as president, commerce at the former agency. Meanwhile, current MRM EVP/chief technology officer, North America Andy Jacobs (pictured) will add global responsibilities to his CTO role. Taking over as president at McCann New York will be one Chris Macdonald, most recently chief executive at the agency’s London office. Speaking of McCann London, while Macdonald crosses the pond, Rob Doubal and Laurence Thomson, who served as co-ECDs in said office, will be moving up the ladder to serve as co-presidents/chief creative officers. Get all that? Good.

SapientNitro has lost of one of its lead “idea engineers” as Anthony Yell is leaving the agency he called home for nearly 13 years to join up with MRM as EVP/executive creative director for the East region (which includes the NYC, Princeton and Detroit offices). Yell most recently served as VP/ECD at SapientNitro, working out of the agency’s Los Angeles office and leading/managing the creative teams not only locally, but for San Francisco, Chicago and Toronto. During his tenure at SN, Yell worked with clients including Adobe, Sony, Bare Escentuals and more.

Now at MRM, the creative exec will be based in the IPG/McCann Worldgroup agency’s New York office and report to East president, Michael Mclaren.