Arrivals & Departures

NZ native & programmatic provider Yahoo Platforms has appointed Tom Adamson as programmatic specialist based in Auckland. The appointment follows a pivot towards the channels in November 2016, which is driven by Yahoo Platforms’ two key properties – programmatic resource Brightroll with Brightroll DSP+ and Brightroll Ad Exchange, and global native marketplace, Gemini.

Clemenger BBDO/Proximity Wellington managing director Livia Esterhazy has announced she will leave the agency in the coming months, after two years in the role. Clemenger Group creative veteran Brett Hoskin has been appointed to replace her.

Botany Town Centre has appointed Tanya Chadha to the role of marketing manager within the centre management team. Chadha is a marketing professional with more than six years of experience in retail and a BCom (Hons) in Management & Marketing. She had been the centre’s assistant marketing manager for two years prior to her promotion.

Freeview has announced the pending departure of its long-serving general manager, Sam Irvine, who is leaving in March to take up the role of chief operating officer at Isthmus Group.

Sydney-based director Kiku Ohe, who is represented in Australia & New Zealand by Exit Films, has joined Los Angeles commercial production house Superprime for representation across the USA.

Paris-based Publicis Groupe has chosen Arthur Sadoun, currently ceo of Publicis Communications, to succeed Maurice Lévy as chairman & ceo of the groupe, effective June 1. Lévy has been retained as supervisory board chairman.

Following an international search, CX-driven retail agency 99 has announced that Dan Bye – a multi-award winning communications strategist – has joined the agency as director of strategy.

Young+Shand has announced the appointment of Geoff Joe in the newly created role of design director. Internationally awarded, Joe initially studied Visual Communications with a Bachelor of Design with Honours at Massey University in Wellington. His studies included extensive training in graphic design, interactive design, motion graphics and typography.

Pead PR Auckland has appointed Konrad Kasiske to the newly created role of director of content. Pead PR managing director Becky Erwood says the former foreign editor in the TVNZ newsroom fills an important role in the business.

Former Saatchi & Saatchi NZ digital creative director Tom Eslinger – an American creative who spent 15 years in NZ from 1990 to 2005 – has been named global chief creative officer of Y&R Group agency Burson-Marsteller, a global strategic communications & PR firm based in New York.