Indie company community Goodway Group introduced Wednesday that it has appointed Paul Frampton-Calero as its new CEO. 

The management swap up signifies a brand new period for the family-owned enterprise, based in 1929.

Frampton-Calero is stepping up from his role as global CEO of Goodway Group’s consulting arm Overline Consulting (previously Management vs. Uncovered), and can take the brand new put up on Monday, Might 12. Previous to becoming a member of the group in 2019, Frampton-Calero held quite a lot of management positions within the promoting and tech areas, together with as Group CEO of Havas Media Group and CEO of startup Hello Inc.

“I’m feeling excited,” Frampton-Calero informed ADWEEK. “The foundations of this 96 year-old family-run, impartial enterprise are very sturdy proper now.”

He plans to double down on the company’s investments in commerce, consulting, and AI particularly. Goodway Group’s mixed consulting and commerce enterprise has grown 22% during the last yer.

Frampton-Calero will change Jay Friedman, who helmed Goodway Group for almost 20 years. Underneath Friedman’s management, Goodway reworked from a print advertising company with fewer than 30 workers to a global company servicing main purchasers together with Mars, Ulta, the New York Jets, and Greenback Normal. 

Friedman will keep on in an advisory capability and can concentrate on future-casting and AI technique, mentorship, and relationship administration within the trade. 

Goodway Group’s government chairman and third-generation proprietor, David Wolk, acknowledged Friedman’s contributions to the corporate, saying in a press release that he “has continuously pushed us ahead into new areas of alternative,” and famous that he’s helped place the enterprise for its “subsequent stage of transformation.”

Friedman is proud at hand the ropes to Frampton-Calero, who he’s labored intently with over the previous couple of years to assist form the route of the corporate. 

“He does an amazing job trying into the long run,” Friedman stated of his successor. “He has an exquisite means to provoke and produce the crew collectively.” 

Elevating Goodway’s profile

Past deepening Goodway Group’s core follow areas of commerce, AI, and consulting, Frampton-Calero needs to lift Goodway Group’s profile. 

The company community has scaled considerably in recent times, rising its income by round 25x, in response to Friedman. In 2022, it made two vital acquisitions, snapping up efficiency advertising company Tuff and consultancy Canton Marketing Solutions.

However whereas Goodway Group has made a reputation for itself within the adtech group, Frampton-Calero stated, a lot of the world nonetheless doesn’t know who Goodway Group is or what it does. He hopes that, beneath his management, the group can “broaden that popularity out throughout media and advertising.”

He stated: “We have to shout louder…and be a bit extra seen out there.”