Arrivals & Departures

AUCKLAND, Today: Independent agency Thrive PR + Communications has grown its team with the appointment of Victoria Fruean as group account director and Natasha D’Souza as senior account manager.

AUCKLAND, Today: Val Morgan Group has unveiled key appointments and promotions to their New Zealand leadership team. NZ sales director Matt Tremain has taken on a group role leading the teams across its Val Morgan Cinema and VMO businesses effective immediately.

AUCKLAND, Thursday: MediaWorks has appointed Angus Swainson to the role of operations director, effective Monday 12 August 12.

AUCKLAND, Today: Former Freeview ceo Sam Speedy Irvine has joined Auckland B2B specialist agency Badger as managing director. And yes, that really is his middle name.

AUCKLAND, Today: PHD PR/comms specialist Victoria Fruean is leaving the company and moving to Sydney. Exactly where, she won’t say!

NEW YORK, Today: Publicis global chief creative officer Nick Law is set to depart for an as-yet unspecified role at Apple. Law is an Australian who has been chief creative officer at Publicis Groupe and president of Publicis Communications for the past 18 months.

AUCKLAND, Today: Digital ad sales company Scroll Media has made two senior hires – Vinay Shriyan and Megan Keene. Shriyan joins as programmatic & operations director to manage the operational side of the business. He has years of technical experience at realestate.co.nz and stuff.co.nz and Acquire Online and will use his experience to develop several new integrated placements including native, data capture and carousels.

AUCKLAND, Today: Melanie Spencer joins social media agency Socialites as managing partner, alongside founder/ceo Wendy Thompson, with a remit to help grow the business.

AUCKLAND, Today: Sean McCready, managing partner at indie media agency MBM, reckons he’s “pretty excited about some new talent on the bench – calling out a crew which now has even more depth to deal with continued strong growth over the last few months”.

SYDNEY, Today: Carat has appointed Sue Squillace as its new Australia & New Zealand ceo. Squillace, who will be based in Australia, joins Carat from Spark Foundry where she was ceo.