Carolyn Carter, the Grey Global Group president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, would neither confirm nor deny reports that Lace would remain at the agency.
"Grey has had no part in this rumour and doesn't want to comment on speculation," she told 北京赛车pk10.
Lace was appointed as chief executive in October 2002 when he took over the seat left vacant by Martin Smith who was ousted after a year in the job, which someone close to the agency described at the time of Lace's appointment as a "poisoned chalice".
Last week it was revealed that after examining security tapes Grey London had failed to identify the author of a widely circulated hoax email implicating Lace in a secret business venture to set up a loyalty scheme with Drew Thomson, the managing director of Air Miles, a Grey client.
Grey human resources consultant Lou Burrows watched security camera tapes from an internet cafe, named as the source of the email, but failed to identify the culprit.
Lace said he has not seen the tapes and has vehemently denied any plans to set up a venture with Thomson, with whom he is friends. Lace ran the Air Miles account at his old agency TBWA\London before it moved and followed him to Grey. The two also talked of swapping jobs last year for three months but this plan failed to get off the ground.
Some have been surprised by the involvement of the police in the hoax email affair when they were called in to track down the author, after Lace financed the hunt for the terminal that sent out the email out of his own pocket.
Met inquiries established that the email was sent from an internet cafe in London's Tottenham Court Road on the afternoon of Saturday February 7.
The footage was relatively easy to secure because internet cafes are currently being monitored by security cameras owing to the heightened threat posed by Al Qaeda terrorists, who are known to use internet cafes for their communications.
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