Arrivals & Departures

Tourism company Southern Discoveries continues to expand by adding new roles to its marketing team. With the new additions, the company is focusing its marketing operations into online and offline, PR and partnerships.

AUT University senior advertising lecturer Martin Waiguny has resigned to return to Austria for personal reasons.

MediaWorks group head of revenue Liz Fraser has resigned to take up a new position at Air New Zealand.

Downtown Auckland boutique communications agency Intelligent Ink has appointed Sophia Berry-Smith to the role of PR & People Person.

50+ online lifestyle website and social club GrownUps has appointed Sara Bushell as advertising coordinator.  Bushell has 14 years experience in advertising at Fairfax Media (advertising manager) and the NZ Herald (sales management roles at Canvas, Viva, TimeOut, TV Guide & Sunday Magazine).

Vizeum New Zealand has promoted Richard Hale to the role of agency director, where he will lead the day-to-day management of the agency and, “in keeping with Vizeum’s dedication to senior resource”, will maintain hands on leadership across all key clients.

Corporate PR agency Ideas Shop is “building its national profile” with the promotion of Amanda Woodbridge to a full partner role.

Bauer Media has appointed Susannah Walker as editor of Metro magazine, effective from the November issue. Walker takes over the role from Simon Wilson, who will step back to more of a fulltime senior writer role.

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NZ director Jess Bluck has returned from working overseas to sign with Thick As Thieves. Previously, she’s worked on commercials for Origin Energy, 9 MSN, Cadbury, Nikon, Toyota and Honda.

Building on “a period of consolidation & growth” in 2015, bcg2 is welcoming three new faces into their Auckland & Wellington teams.