Etihad Airways appoints Cheil as global digital & social media agency

Etihad Airways appoints Cheil as global digital & social media agency

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has appointed the Cheil Network to handle its global digital and social marketing activities, following a competitive pitch process held last month. Cheil is now responsible for delivering Etihad Airways’ strategy and creative in all digital and social channels. The agency will also support […]

Fabio Di Giammarco Named to Top Marketing Role for Bacardí Rum

Fabio Di Giammarco Named to Top Marketing Role for Bacardí Rum

Bacardi announced the immediate promotion of Fabio Di Giammarco, 42, to Global Vice President for Bacardí rum. In this role, Mr. Di Giammarco is responsible for the Bacardí rum brand marketing efforts globally, including enhancing brand equity, positioning, advertising, packaging and pricing. He reports to Mauricio Vergara, CMO North America and global lead for Bacardí […]

Wunderman UK boosts strategic and creative offering with new hirings

Wunderman UK boosts strategic and creative offering with new hirings

Wunderman UK has made key hirings bolstering its strategic and creative offering, with Paul Harvey joining as Head of Project Management, Lezaan Roos as Strategy Director, Michael Maxwell as Senior Strategist and Andrew Thomas as Conceptual Lead. Head of Project Management Paul Harvey joins from AKQA where he was Associate Programme Director working on Nike. […]

Y&R name Andrew Dimitriou President of Y&R Europe

Y&R name Andrew Dimitriou President of Y&R Europe

Y&R Global CEO David Sable announced that Andrew Dimitriou, a 16-year Y&R veteran, with experience working across four Continents in the network, has been named President of Y&R Europe. Andrew will work closely with the leaders in the region to evolve and help grow Y&R’s European offering, in order to serve Y&R’s clients across markets […]

Regus awards Havas helia its global CRM business

Regus awards Havas helia its global CRM business

Regus, the global workplace provider, has appointed Havas helia to handle its global CRM business. Havas helia won the account after a pitch against undisclosed agencies. Regus’ Chief Customer Officer Eva Eisenschimmel called the pitch earlier this year. The pitch process was handled by the intermediary Agency Insight. Havas helia will now work to deliver […]

LIFE enlists former Mother and KesselsKramer ECD Maurice Van De Ven

LIFE enlists former Mother and KesselsKramer ECD Maurice Van De Ven

Integrated marketing agency LIFE has appointed ex-MEC, Mother and KesselsKramer creative heavyweight Maurice Van De Ven as executive creative director to lead its new ‘Create Consequence’ orientation. Van De Ven will provide leadership and take responsibility for the creative direction of all agency accounts as LIFE launches ‘Create Consequence’ – the agency’s new point of […]

PSONA Group appoints Jamie Bell as executive creative director

PSONA Group appoints Jamie Bell as executive creative director

PSONA Group, recently formed by marketing services group Communisis, has appointed former VCCPme creative partner, Jamie Bell as executive creative director. He will work across the Group’s three agencies: PSONA, PSONA Films and PSONA Social, with a remit to raise the creative bar across the full suite of clients and attract new business. As creative […]

Will Glynn-Jones joins The Moment from Leo Burnett Group as Director of Experience

Will Glynn-Jones joins The Moment from Leo Burnett Group as Director of Experience

The Moment, the international content company, has appointed Will Glynn-Jones as Director of Experience from Arc Worldwide, part of the Leo Burnett Group, to strengthen its presence within the events and experiential marketing sector. Will joins The Moment’s management team, rebranded in June 2015 from ONE TWO FOUR. He will oversee the events team who […]

Doreswamy Nandkishore joins Blippar to help focus marketing & strategy for leading brand clients

Doreswamy Nandkishore joins Blippar to help focus marketing & strategy for leading brand clients

Blippar, the leading image recognition and visual discovery platform, today announced that former Nestlé S.A Global Executive Board Member Doreswamy Nandkishore has officially joined the company as its first external non-executive board member. Nandkishore will be helping advise the company in its increased focus on brand and marketing strategy across the company’s full portfolio of […]