Arrivals & Departures

Y&R has appointed Fleur Head as managing director in its Wellington office. Effectively, this is a new role (previous Wellington MD Tim Ellis left over a year ago, and is now head of client service at Shine).

Sydney-based Andrew Hunter has joined Facebook in a newly created Australasian role as news partnerships lead, fronting Facebook’s “increasing collaboration” with Australia and New Zealand’s media networks and help with the local rollout of products specifically designed for the publishing industry.

Margaret Hawker is set to join downtown Auckland-based indie Running with Scissors as an Auckland-based creative strategist.

NZME has appointed Matt Headland to the position of chief commercial officer leading the organisation’s advertising sales teams and programmes. He replaces Laura Maxwell, who took up the new role of chief digital officer in August.

Global audience data provider Eyeota has strengthened its ANZ leadership by hiring Sydney-based industry veteran Peter Hunter as NZ/Australia general manager.

Bauer Media has turned in-house to replace commercial director Paul Gardiner – who in September moved to a similar role at Bauer Australia. The NZ arm has made permanent the acting commercial director role of Kaylene Hurley, who’s been filling in for Gardiner.

Sydney-based commercials producer Photoplay – which already has Kiwi director Brendan Donovan on its books – has signed award-winning comedy performance director Frazer Bailey (an Aussie) for representation in Australia and New Zealand.

DDB Group communications agency Mango has appointed a new experiential director – Noeline van den Berg, who joins from Publicis Groupe South Africa, to lead Mango’s events team, delivering experiential campaigns for a range of clients including McDonald’s, Specsavers and Mini.

Auckland digital PR/activations agency Darkhorse has appointed Courtenay Clark as social media manager in its growing team. Clark has six years of social media experience, and has worked at Socialites in downtown Auckland, in-house at Città Design Auckland and most recently at Auckland digital design agency Hello.

Auckland indie Lassoo Media & PR has strengthened its digital team – promoting one staffer, and bringing back an old friend – as online marketing spend in New Zealand continues to grow.