LIDA hires industry heavyweight Ben Golik as Chief Creative Officer

LIDA hires industry heavyweight Ben Golik as Chief Creative Officer

LIDA has appointed one of London’s leading creative stars, Ben Golik, as the agency’s new Chief Creative Officer. Ben joins LIDA from Rapp where he was Group Executive Creative Director, working on a range of award-winning campaigns for brands such as PayPal, Virgin Media and Heist. Prior to Rapp, Ben spent 10 years at Kitcatt […]

Publicis Groupe appoint R/GA’s Nick Law as new chief creative officer

Publicis Groupe appoint R/GA’s Nick Law as new chief creative officer

Publicis Groupe announced that Nick Law has been hired as Chief Creative Officer of Publicis Groupe and President of Publicis Communications. As one of the industry’s most progressive creative leaders, the choice of Nick Law signals Publicis’ on-going commitment to creativity and technology at the service of marketing and business transformation. Nick’s mission will be to […]

Energy BBDO’s Andrés Ordóñez talks about ‘Sarah and Juan’ and the agency’s creative vision going forward

Energy BBDO’s Andrés Ordóñez talks about ‘Sarah and Juan’ and the agency’s creative vision going forward

Andrés Ordóñez is a proven creative leader and a force for innovation at Energy BBDO. He has over 15 years of experience in integrated marketing, helping some of the most successful brands in the world achieve creative greatness. One such brand to reap the rewards of Andrés’ creative brilliance recently was Wrigley’s. His ‘Sarah and Juan‘ […]

LIDA appoints Trefor Thomas, award-winning ECD of SapientNitro, as Chief Creative Officer

LIDA appoints Trefor Thomas, award-winning ECD of SapientNitro, as Chief Creative Officer

LIDA has appointed Trefor Thomas, Executive Creative Director of SapientNitro, as its Chief Creative Officer (CCO) – a newly created role. Thomas joins the senior management line-up alongside Matthew Heath (Chairman), Victoria Fox (CEO), Jonathan Goodman (Managing Director) Simon Calvert (Chief Strategy Officer). He will sit on the LIDA management board. Starting in June 2016, […]

Leo Burnett London appoints new Chief Creative Officer

Leo Burnett London appoints new Chief Creative Officer

Leo Burnett announces the appointment of Chaka Sobhani to the role of chief creative officer. Chaka joins Leo Burnett London from Mother. Chaka brings with her 20 years of experience from both the Advertising and Broadcast industries, notably setting up ITV Creative and becoming their first creative director. She started her career as a comedy […]

Y&R names Jaime Mandelbaum new Europe Chief Creative Officer

Y&R names Jaime Mandelbaum new Europe Chief Creative Officer

Y&R Global Chief Creative Officer Tony Granger and Andrew Dimitriou, Y&R’s CEO of Europe, announced the appointment of Jaime Mandelbaum as Chief Creative Officer of Europe. The São Paulo-born creative who has served as Chief Creative Officer of Y&R Central & Eastern Europe since 2013, will now oversee the global ad agency’s creative efforts across […]