Movers & Shakers: Archibald Williams, Adholics, We Are Social, Cummins&Partners, Wunderman Thompson

By AdNews | 17 June 2022
 

It's hard to keep up with all the latest moves across media, marketing and advertising, so we've made a list. Check out some of the biggest moves this week.

Clemenger's Brendan Willenberg moves to Archibald Williams
Brendan Willenberg has been appopinted executive creative director and creative partner of Archibald Williams. He joins the agency this month after clocking up 10 years with Clemenger BBDO as ECD.  Prior to that he spent five years as senior eriter with McCann Sydney.

Samba TV expands in Australia, announces key hires
Tom Parsons has been appointed head of client & data partnerships and Damien Tang has been appointed data solutions director, leading data integrations, client solutions and overseeing operations for Samba TV’s programmatic audience offering.

Social Soup hires We Are Social's Pete Hong
The Influence Group’s Social Soup has appointed Pete Hong influence director. Hong’s role will see him engaging with and vetting influencers, creating content-led paid strategies, and measuring influence performance.

Optus's Angela Greenwood moves to Youi as CMO
Insurance challenger brand Youi has appointed Angela Greenwood as CMO. Greenwood joins from Optus as a senior director of consumer marketing. She previously held senior marketing roles with Mortgage Choice and with a UK based digital marketing agency working with leading brands including Red Letter Days, Disneyland, Superdry, Randstad and Reckitt Benckiser.

Michael McConville becomes global CEO Cummins&Partners
Cummins&Partners has appointed Michael McConville to head its offices in Melbourne, Sydney and New York as global CEO. McConville is returning home after almost nine years in the UK working as client managing director & partner at WCRS/Engine, and managing partner at adam&eveDDB.

Edelman names MediaCom's Tom Robinson CEO for Australia
Edelman announced the appointment of Tom Robinson as CEO Australia. Robinson joins Edelman from MediaCom and takes over from Michelle Hutton who has become APAC vice chair last year.

Wunderman Thompson hires Re's Annabelle Barnum
Wunderman Thompson Australia has appointed Annabelle Barnum general manager of its Sydney office. Barnum joins the creative agency from her position as group capability head, design and experience at Re Design where she led the Design & Experience capability for Woolworths, along with leading other key clients such as CommBank, CommSec and Domain.

Pivotus hires two senior account managers
Independent media agency Pivotus has boosted its account management team with the appointment of two senior account managers, Alina Kulchol and Rebekah Wymer. The pair will work closely with Pivotus’ growing client base to streamline their digital media spend, reporting and analytics, for maximum impact.

Adholics hires from GroupM and The Media Store
Independent media agency Adholics has grown its team with three senior hires from GroupM and The Media Store. Stephen Benrad joins Adholics as head of growth & operations from The Media Store, Rob Shaw has been appointed group account director and also reigns from The Media Store and Georgia Urquhart-Hay has been appointed programmatic & digital campaign manager and was previously with GroupM.

CX Lavender hires VMLY&R's Craig Page
CX Lavender has appointed Craig Page chief strategy officer. He joins from VMLY&R, where he was head of strategy, leading the agency’s Sydney strategy team and heading strategy for the Melbourne-based Defence Force Recruiting account.

MiQ promotes Jason Scott to APAC CEO
MiQ has announced the promotion of Jason Scott to CEO APAC, adding Southeast Asia to his leadership.
Scott’s remit includes APAC countries excluding India and China, and he will continue to serve as CEO for Australia and New Zealand, reporting to MiQ global president Richard Dunmall.

oOh!'s Kristian Waller becomes Paramount Sydney sales director
Paramount Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) has appointed Kristian Waller Sydney sales director. He will be responsible for sales and commercial activity in Sydney across Network 10, 10 Play and Paramount+, reporting to national sales director, Lisa Squillace.

Dentsu's Sophie Lander to Cummins&Partners as MD Sydney
Independent creative and media agency Cummins&Partners has hired another senior industry figure. Sophie Lander is leaving dentsu after three years running the Sydney office of BWM Isobar and DMB to become MD at Cummins&Partners Sydney.

Clemenger's Brendan Willenberg moves to Archibald Williams
Brendan Willenberg has been appopinted executive creative director and creative partner of Archibald Williams. He joins the agency this month after clocking up 10 years with Clemenger BBDO as ECD. Prior to that he spent five years as senior writer with McCann Sydney.

Khemistry appoints Jo Millington as GM
Behaviour change creative agency Khemistry has appointed Jo Millington to general manager and Susan Lyons becomes Khemistry managing director. Millington is an experienced advertising and marketing professional having spent more than 20 years leading brand strategy and development of iconic, global brands across higher education, travel and tourism, lotteries, pharmaceutical and retail.

 

 

 

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