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Top 10 Hires of the Week

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CHI&Partners

CHI&Partners has hired Dave Bedwood, creative founder of Lean Mean Fighting Machine, as a Creative Partner – bringing him on board to help build on the agency’s reputation as a leader in integrated, innovative creativity. Starting next week, Bedwood will report directly into joint executive creative directors Yan Elliott and Micky Tudor as well as chief executive Sarah Golding. Bedwood has worked at agencies including Tribal DDB, M&C Saatchi and AnalogFolk, as well as co-founding two agencies of his own – Lean Mean Fighting Machine and data-driven marketing consultancy Cauliflower. He will bring with him to the role at CHI&Partners cutting-edge expertise in digital-first, data-driven and technologically innovative creativity – with a portfolio including #Hibernot for Land Rover, “Non Stop Fernando” for Emirates Airlines and D&AD-winning “The Photographic Adventures of Nick Turpin” for the Samsung Pixon camera, as well as outstanding analogue work such as “Transporting Londoners into the Future” for TfL. Bedwood joined Tribal DDB as a creative director in 2001, helping to make the agency famous for creating outstanding digital work at a time when creative rigour was often lacking within the medium. It was there that he met Tom Bazeley and programmer Dave Cox – the duo he and creative partner Sam Ball left with in 2004 to set up Lean Mean Fighting Machine. Lean Mean Fighting Machine quickly established itself as a multi-award-winner, creating stand-out work for clients including Virgin Games, Dr Pepper, Strongbow, Signal, Flora, Domestos, Samsung, Google and Emirates Airlines with Bedwood at its helm – and going on to win Interactive Agency of the Year at Cannes Lions in 2008. In 2014, the agency was acquired by M&C Saatchi, where Bedwood worked for some time as a creative director, before leaving for AnalogFolk and then to launch data-driven marketing consultancy Cauliflower.

 

AMV BBDO

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AMV BBDO has hired two exciting new creative teams to boost their creative department - they will join this week. First up are Jack Smedley and George Hackforth-Jones, who joined BBH six years ago on the back of the multi-award winning Lauren Luke campaign for domestic violence charity Refuge. In that time they've produced award winning work for Lynx/Axe (Global Peace campaign), Samsung (School of Rugby and Rio) and the Guardian (Own your weekend or someone else will). They've also worked on clients including Adidas, Google and Tesco, as well as leading ongoing campaigns for Refuge. Next up are Ben Polkinghorne and Scott Kelly who join from W+K London where they have worked for the last two years, mainly on Finish and Lurpak. Before that, they spent three and a half years at Colenso BBDO in New Zealand. They worked across many clients whilst there, including Pedigree and Samsung. Key awards won 11 Cannes Lions, D&AD Pencils and being listed on Business Insider's “30 most creative people in advertising under 30” list.

 

POSSIBLE

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POSSIBLE has appointed Joe Crump as Managing Director of the NYC office, overseeing all client relations, delivery and business operations. Effective immediately, he will report into Martha Heifield, CEO of the Americas. For the last seventeen years, Joe has been a Senior Executive at Razorfish, now known as SapientRazorfish. During his tenure, Joe held multiple executive positions, leading the agency and its clients through dramatic shifts in technology evolution and consumer behavior. In 2014, he founded the agency’s Product and Service Innovation Practice. Comprised of designers, technologists, data analysts, brand planners and business strategists, Joe’s cross-disciplinary group harnessed new technologies to create rapid prototypes for breakthrough digital products, services and retail experiences. Before becoming Head of Product and Service Innovation, Joe ran the agency’s Strategy & Planning Group, and served as Executive Creative Director. During his tenure as Executive Creative Director, the agency experienced a creative renaissance and won more top creative awards than any time in its prior history.

 

Gramercy Park Studios

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Gramercy Park Studios has appointed Javier Santaella as Motion Graphics Designer as it continues to bolster creativity within the growing department. In his role, Santaella will support the burgeoning production team across 2D and 3D animation. Santaella joins GPS with a background combining skills in 2D, 3D and VFX, building his career as a motion graphics artist in CANAL+‘s on-air promotions department. There he learnt alongside a talented team of artists which defined his style as a designer, including inspiration from the work of Etiene Robial for the original CANAL+ visual identity.

 

Aesop

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Aesop has appointed Ben Callis to the role of ECD – effective immediately. Callis joins from a highly productive two-year stint as creative director/producer at Breakneck Films working across a broad portfolio of projects including short films, documentaries, gaming development and feature length content. Prior to this, Callis was group creative director at Huge and before that creative director at Sapient Nitro where he took on the challenge of integrating creative ideas into the heart of technology. In his four years at Sapient he developed award-winning work for a roster of big brand clients including; Converse, Footlocker, Ladbrokes and McLaren Automotive. Callis will head up the Aesop studio and will have overall responsibility for all creative output. His appointment bolsters a creative team – broadening the capabilities for both new and existing clients.

 

Above+Beyond

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Joanna Borton is joining Above+Beyond as its first Creative Services Director, and will sit on the board with CEO Zaid Al-Zaidy, ECD David Billing, Brand Services Director Tom Bedwell and Creative Directors Rapha Campos and Ben da Costa. Borton joins from 180 Amsterdam, where she was Head of Project Management. She has previously worked for Wieden+Kennedy and BBH London. Borton has varied experience in the advertising industry, ranging from producing campaigns to project management and working across global brands, including Qatar Airways, DHL, Audi and Vodafone. At Above+Beyond, Borton will work across all client accounts, including Amazon, Betway, Kerrygold, Pilgrims Choice, Unilever and Meantime, in a role which will be central to the agency’s development of work rooted in audience culture.

 

Brothers and Sisters

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Brothers and Sisters has appointed Will Flack and Aaron Willmer as its joint Executive Creative Directors. The promotion of the team, previously the agency’s Creative Directors, will enable Andy Fowler, Brothers and Sisters’ current Executive Creative Director, to focus on growing a couple of the agency’s biggest client relationships and developing innovation projects in the role of Founder. Flack and Willmer will take responsibility for the day-to-day creative output of the agency across all clients, which include Sky, Sunny, Pearl & Dean, and uSwitch. The duo joined Brothers and Sisters in 2009 and were promoted to creative directors in 2013. Their award-winning work since includes the Sky Q launch campaign and the “Back of the Head” and “Tumbleweed” spots for Pearl & Dean – “Tumbleweed” most recently winning a Cannes Lion in Film. Flack and Willmer met on the creative advertising course at Buckinghamshire in 1999. From there, they joined AMV BBDO before moving to Karmarama in 2003, where they worked on clients including IKEA, Colman’s, UKTV, VH1, Kickers, Amnesty International and the Conservative Party. The pair’s recent highlights include winning and launching the Harry’s shaving service in the UK.

 

Stink Studios

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Stink Studios has announced that Executive Producer, Jax Ostle-Evans, will be taking over the running of the creative studio as Managing Director of London. This new position has been formed following the promotion of James Britton to Global Managing Director in June 2017. Ostle-Evans has been at the forefront of development within the business since her arrival at Stink Studios in November 2012. Over the last four years, she has helped lead digital and content innovation, advancing the company’s offer to ambitious modern brands in technology, fashion and entertainment. In her new role, Ostle-Evans will focus on retaining the studio’s reputation as one of the world’s top 50 companies that creatives would ‘kill to work at’, continuing to strengthen and diversify the company’s creative output and will expand the brands that Stink Studios works with. Reporting to Stink Global Managing Director, James Britton, she will work closely with the current leadership across Stink Studios’ seven global offices. Ostle-Evans's hybrid experience in commercial film, digital and content production makes her uniquely placed to fulfil this role. Before joining Stink Studios in 2012, she set up Superglue, the internal production company at Glue London (now Isobar), where, as Executive Producer she worked on ground-breaking projects such as Toyota’s “Get Your Energy Back” and MINI, where she worked on the first interactive film to ever be created in the industry. Since being with Stink Studios, Ostle-Evans has spearheaded innovative projects for clients such as Sky, Google,and the recent Cannes Lions winning “Your Next Great Idea” campaign for Pinterest.

 

Boys & Girls

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Boys and Girls, the international award-winning Dublin based creative agency that counts Three Mobile, Digicel, Dulux and most recently Ulster Bank amongst its clients, has announced the appointment of Karleen Smyth as Senior Activation Director, leading the experiential business unit. At Boys and Girls, Karleen will join one of Ireland’s most successful activation teams and will be responsible for providing top calibre service in the form of analysing, planning and creating compelling activation ideas and experiences that provide a competitive edge for client brands. As such, she will liaise closely with the Account Management, Creative, Digital, Production and Finance teams at Boys and Girls on a day-today basis. She is a co-founder of Twigged Creative, a boutique events agency that provided an ideal platform to showcase her skill at events and activations. Previously, Karleen spent a number of years working with Lindsey Holmes Publicity (LHP) on a series of high profile projects and artists in the entertainment industry. While at LHP her accounts included Electric Picnic, Forbidden Fruit festival, Limerick City of Culture, RTE, and a long list of music gigs from Ennio Morricone to Leonard Cohen and Blur.

 

FCB Chicago

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FCB Chicago has announced that Avital Pinchevsky has joined the agency as SVP, Executive Creative Director. Pinchevsky will be reporting directly to Chief Creative Officer, Liz Taylor, and will be responsible for providing creative leadership on Cox Communications. Prior to joining FCB, Pinchevsky held positions all over the globe, growing her career at TBWA Hunt Lascaris in Johannesburg, BBDO New York, Crispin Porter +Bogusky, and Y&R Tel Aviv, providing creative leadership on a diverse group of brands including household names like JELL-O, BMW and Pepsi. Her work has been recognised by the One Show, D&AD, Cannes Lions, and Clios amongst others. Pinchevsky joins FCB Chicago from Leo Burnett where she held the position of Senior Vice President, Executive Creative Director, overseeing creative for the Kellogg’s brands, after leading the pitch that brought the Kellogg’s Special K business back to Leo Burnett only eighteen months after the brand had left the agency for JWT.

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