
Foot, who will report to Cornwell, played a lead role in MRM London's appointment to the Microsoft account in 2004.
In 2007, Foot was promoted to client services director at the agency, retaining leadership of the UK Microsoft account. At the same time, Foot also became regional lead for the McCann Worldgroup Nortel account, generating an award-winning acquisition campaign.
Cornwell has spent the past nine months repositioning MRM London. he had to lay off 10% of the agency's staff early on in his tenure - "a difficult way to start the job". Executive creative director Matt Mayes left the agency by mutual consent.