Arrivals & Departures

PHD Group NZ today announced it has appointed Jo Hartley as head of trading & investment. She’s ex Dentsu Aegis NZ where she was trading director.

Omnicom Media Group NZ agencies have made three recent key hires: Rachel Leyland has joined Dynamo as a business director, working primarily on Spark, helping promote its Skinny Mobile and Lightbox offerings. She’s an ex FCB Auckland media director.

J Walter Thompson New Zealand has appointed Grant Henderson to take the reins of the agency’s digital strategic direction.

PHD Group has appointed Dallas Gurney as general manager of Spark PR & Activate, replacing Robin Wilson, who is returning home to the UK.

Westhaven-based agency Chemistry Interaction has hired Jude Lehmann as creative services manager to ensure seamless workflow across the agency’s diverse portfolio, which now includes Green Cross Health and The Travel Corporation.

Carat New Zealand has announced the appointment of Nick Scott to the role of group business director. Scott returns to New Zealand after 10 years in Singapore working for global marketing and performance agencies such as Havas, Neo@Ogilvy and MullenLowe Profero, where he led multiple blue chip digital accounts including IBM and Apple.

Nick Paschalis has joined online display advertising technology shop Acquire Online Auckland as an agency sales director after a 5 1/2 year innings with Yahoo as head of direct sales.

MediaWorks has commenced a global search for a TV programming executive to replace director of programming Mark Caulton, who has resigned from TV3 to move to the United Kingdom in the New Year.

Award-winning NZ creative director Matt Swinburne has been lured from McCann New York to a creative director role at Droga5 New York.