Media Buying Briefing: CourtAvenue’s new president looks to grow, integrate and find M&A targets

January 26, 2026

By Michael Bürgi If you can’t beat ’em sometimes you have to hire ’em away. That’s the approach CourtAvenue took when coming up against Stagwell in some of the pitches it didn’t win.

The independent multi-pronged agency run by ex-WPP execs Dan Khabie, Kenny Tomlin and Michael Stich, hired Robyn Freye to be CourtAvenue’s first president and chief growth officer. Most recently Freye was Stagwell’s chief growth officer who had a hand in winning clients such as Qualcomm and Expedia, and helped to build out Sports Beach, which just launched as a standalone entity. This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. Continue reading it on digiday.com and subscribe to continue reading content like this. …read more

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