Cheil Worldwide appoints Aaron Lau as President of International

Cheil Worldwide appoints Aaron Lau as President of International

Cheil Worldwide, the marketing solutions company headquartered in South Korea, has announced the appointment of Aaron Lau as President of International. Aaron has served as the President & CEO of Cheil Greater China since 2012 and has grown the China operations into a 1,400 staff organization and the country’s 6th largest agency based on annual […]

Hometown appoints Don Larotonda as its first Strategy Director

Hometown appoints Don Larotonda as its first Strategy Director

Hometown has boosted its senior team and strategic offering by appointing Don Larotonda as its first Strategy Director. Larotonda previously worked at Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R as Board Planner for over three years, on clients such as Virgin Atlantic, Lloyds TSB, Danone and Bank of Scotland. Larotonda will lead strategy across all Hometown clients, including […]

IPM appoints Lord Guy Black as President

IPM appoints Lord Guy Black as President

The Institute of Promotional Marketing (IPM) has appointed Telegraph Media Group executive director and Commonwealth Press Union chairman Lord Black of Brentwood as its president. This the first time that the IPM has appointed a president and he joins a senior line-up that includes chairman Graham Temple, vice-chairman John Sylvester and new MD Carey Trevill. […]

Blippar hires Omaid Hiwaizi as part of expansion plans

Blippar hires Omaid Hiwaizi as part of expansion plans

Omaid Hiwaizi, the UK chief strategy officer at Geometry Global, has been hired by Blippar as its first President of Global Marketing. Hiwaizi will be responsible for expanding and transforming the marketing efforts of the leading image recognition and augmented reality app and grow consumer adoption. He will initially focus on the UK and USA, […]

Maxus Strengthens Global Board with Two New Roles

Maxus Strengthens Global Board with Two New Roles

Maxus announced the strengthening of its global senior management team with the appointment of David Kaganovsky as chief information officer and the promotion of Richard Stokes to the newly created post of chief development officer. Kaganovsky joins Maxus from GroupM, where he was global applications director, sitting on GroupM’s Global IT Executive Committee and Global […]

Heineken USA Appoints Ronald den Elzen As CEO

Heineken USA Appoints Ronald den Elzen As CEO

Heineken USA announces that effective July 1st, Dolf van den Brink will be the new CEO of Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma/Heineken Mexico. He will be succeeded by Ronald den Elzen, the current Managing Director of Heineken Portugal. Van den Brink has been with Heineken for 17 years. During his six year tenure at Heineken USA, he led a successful turnaround of the business, […]

Partners Revamps Creative Team With Raft of Senior Hires

Partners Revamps Creative Team With Raft of Senior Hires

Partners Andrews Aldridge has boosted its team with three new hires and two promotions as part of a creative team restructure spearheaded by creative director Paul Snoxell. The new structure sees the introduction of three roles at the agency: deputy creative director, head of design and head of digital display, taking the total creative department […]

Sun Branding Solutions appoints new sales director

Sun Branding Solutions appoints new sales director

Sun Branding Solutions has appointed Julie Hall as sales director to lead its new business strategy across target markets in Europe and North America. Hall will be responsible for developing and executing all key growth sales strategies, tactics and action plans. Prior to Sun Branding Solutions, Hall was sales director at GreenBottle Ltd., a start-up […]

Steve Burden Joins Taxi Studio as Creative Director

Steve Burden Joins Taxi Studio as Creative Director

Following a period of tremendous growth and exciting opportunity, 2014 promises to be another big year for Taxi Studio, starting with the arrival of new Creative Director Steve Burden in January. Steve has consulted all over the world for major players including WPP, Fitch and Interbrand for brands such as Vodafone, BP, Harrods and Qatar […]