RKCR/Y&R has hired Tamsin Djaba as Strategy Partner as part of a realignment of the management structure at the agency. Djaba joins the agency from Droga5 London where she worked as Strategy Director. She will be responsible for leading strategy on key clients, including BBC and M&S, and diversifying the agency’s output. RKCR/Y&R is reworking […]
Hogarth Worldwide is delighted to announce the appointments of Ruhiya Nuruddin to Director of Broadcast Operations for Hogarth North America, and Louisa Gleichman to Director of Marketing for Hogarth North America, both new positions for the global agency. Both Nuruddin and Gleichman will work out of Hogarth Americas’ New York headquarters. Nuruddin joins Hogarth from […]
Morar, the research and insight consultancy, has unveiled its new-look senior team. Morar has grown by 150% since joining the Next15 Group in December 2014. Now 25-strong, the company was founded a decade ago by two former Interbrand consultants, Roger Perowne and Alistair Cunningham, and acquired by Next15 in late 2014. Heading up the consultancy, […]
Maxus has announced that Kostas Voudouris will be re-joining as its Head of Organic Performance. Voudouris previously worked for Maxus as SEO director from 2011 to 2015, before moving to New York to work as organic search director at Catalyst and MEC. He now returns to Maxus to head up its Organic Performance team in […]
McCann Erickson Japan has announced that AI-CD β (AI-CD beta), the world’s first artificial intelligence (A.I.) creative director (according to McCann’s research), will be joining the agency. AI-CD β will be attending McCann Worldgroup’s new employee welcoming ceremony on April 1st, along with 11 fresh college graduates. AI-CD β was developed through the Creative Genome […]
Omobono has seen a 20% YOY growth with overseas sales now accounting for over 60% of total turnover; this is thanks to new business wins and the launching of its first London office at the end of 2015. This was the second opening for Omobono in 2015, following its first US office in the heart […]
AllofUs, the interactive design and user-experience agency, has hired Capital One’s former head of design Heather Eddy as user experience director. Her appointment coincides with a re-engineering of AllofUs to focus outright on business transformation through digital and service design. Eddy has experience at client companies including Fidelity Investments, Gilt Taste and Scholastic Book Clubs […]
Matt Pye has been hired by INNOCEAN UK to lead the next chapter in the development of UK business. His remit is to further strengthen the relationships with key INNOCEAN clients including Hyundai Motors UK and Kia Motors UK, and to lead the charge on new business. Pye will report in to Sang-Hoon Rhee, the […]
MEC Manchester has boosted its senior line up by hiring Joanna Parnell as Managing Partner. Parnell will lead the paid digital team and drive forward the agency’s proposition to clients and new business. She reports to MEC Manchester’s Managing Director Mick Style. She joins MEC from Unique Digital where she was Strategy Director. Parnell is […]
Award-winning customer acquisition agency, The Specialist Works, has appointed Lucy Davis to Head of Brand Partnerships. The newly created role will see Davis have direct responsibility for several services, including Goodwill Works (facilitating client partnerships to deliver low cost acquisitions), Personar, the UK’s only personality-type database and email and postal data. Davis will be heading […]