Arrivals & Departures

LONDON, Monday: UK-based R/GA EMEA head of strategy Rob Campbell is to join Colenso BBDO early next year as chief strategy officer.

AUCKLAND, Today: Leading PR firm Porter Novelli has appointed agency alumnus Brad Pogson to group account director in a newly created role, while Courtney Stayte returns as account director to support continued growth.

AUCKLAND, Today: Lumo Digital Outdoor has appointed Chloe van Diepenbrugge as agency account manager. Previously, she worked in media sales at Val Morgan Outdoor.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Creative tech studio Method has bolstered its team with four recent hires – Dom Henshall, Nick Piper, Hannah Rogers, and Sophie Douglas.

AUCKLAND, Today: Avondale-based independent production specialists Production Partners is bringing on a new partner. Olivia Duthie has worked with the team for three years and is now joining Lee Shaw as partner to continue to evolve the business and deliver on their promise of “innovation made easy”.

AUCKLAND, Today: The new owner of Metro magazine is papering the ad/media sector with a flyer that provides no firm resumption date, and – apart from two editorial appointments – very little information about the identity of the people who sent it.

AUCKLAND, Today: Prominent NZ cookbook author Nici Wickes has joined School Road Publishing as food director, working on three of the independent publisher’s new magazine brands.

SYDNEY, Thursday: M&C Saatchi Australia has appointed former Colenso BBDO CSO Emily Taylor as chief strategy officer. Taylor’s appointment rounds out the agency’s leadership team, and will see her partner with group MD Russell Hopson and CCO Cam Blackley.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Shout Media has added Mac Hepburn to its agency sales team. “Mac is ideal for the role with agency experience at FCB, and media suppler experience with NZME,” said sales director Jan Sergel.

NEW YORK, Today: FCB global ceo Carter Murray has announced that Bryan Crawford will transition from his fulltime role as vice-chairman of the global FCB network and chairman of FCB New Zealand to act in a part-time, non-executive advisory capacity for FCB offices globally whilst also focusing on his business interests and governance roles outside of FCB.