Arrivals & Departures

Russell Fisher has been appointed the executive chief of sales for Yellow, a key role in the company as it pivots to become New Zealand’s largest digital marketing agency for SMEs.

FCB managing director Fleur Head has resigned from the agency to return to her hometown of Wellington, according to a report in StopPress.

Digital/data/customer experience agency WiTH Collective Linked by Isobar  has announced the appointment of John Marshall to lead its New Zealand office in the role of client services director.

Kiwi creative expat Todd McCracken has returned to New Zealand to take the joint executive creative director role at Freemans Bay creative agency Contagion.

iProspect New Zealand has made two key senior hires, welcoming Nicola Yates as head of paid media and Falk Werner to its downtown Auckland home as digital performance director.

FCB has announced the promotion of Jane Wardlaw to the position of head of account management, replacing Matt Scott. Wardlaw, who has worked at the agency for over 15 years, most recently held the title of group account director for Mitre 10.

NZME’s commercial creative solutions hub CreateMe and its agency sales team have welcomed new team members into key leadership roles.

FCB nine-year veteran Matt Scott has resigned to join Assignment Group as managing partner of its Auckland office. At FCB, Scott joins head of planning Matt Kingston, who left Special Group for Assignment earlier this year. 

Two well-known ASB executives have handed in their cards – ceo Barbara Chapman will leave early next year, while the bank’s marketing comms GM Roger Beaumont departs next month.

NZ-born publicist Rachel Howard is joining TVNZ as corporate communications manager. Howard has been based in London as a BBC publicist for the past year; before that she was Warner Bros Europe publicist, working out of London.