Arrivals & Departures

AUCKLAND, Today: PHD Group has announced the appointment of Nick Scott as strategic partnerships director, and the promotion of PHD group business director Helen Brown to group investment director.

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Bauer Media Group has appointed Kelly Badland as the new agency sales director for the Auckland agency team. She replaces Sarah Yetton, who is now with oOh!.

AUCKLAND, Today: TVNZ’s popular corporate comms general manager Georgie Hills leaves tomorrow, after six years with the company. She’s moving to the Cook Islands with her husband and their three young boys.

AUCKLAND, Today: oOh!media will appoint Timothy Miles as an independent non-executive director, effective at the conclusion of the company’s 2019 AGM this afternoon.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Colenso BBDO has appointed Londoner Rob Graves-Morris to the role of senior copywriter on the other side of the world.

AUCKLAND, Friday: Steve Bayliss (formerly of Foodstuffs, Air NZ, Lion Nathan) has been appointed chief marketing officer at Sky TV.

NEW YORK, Thursday: Omnicom Media Group has named Philippa Brown as ceo of PHD Worldwide. Brown, who joins PHD from her role as ceo of Omnicom Media Group UK, succeeds Mike Cooper, who was recently named group ceo of Omnicom Media Group APAC and EMEA.

AUCKLAND, Today: Leading customer intelligence agency Perceptive has appointed Nicholl Oblitas-Costa to the role of research consultant.

SYDNEY, Friday: Pete Bosilkovski, the Sydney-based joint chief executive of merged agency VMLY&R for Australia and New Zealand, has resigned from his post after just seven months.