People on the Move
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
  • Auge Reichenberg
    McCann HumanCare

    Auge Reichenberg joined McCann HumanCare, the consumer-focused health & wellness agency of McCann Health, as executive vice president, executive creative director. Reichenberg joins from Rosetta Digital Marketing where she served as executive creative director. She will work on McCann clients such as Merck, Takeda, Novartis, Boehringer-Ingelheim and Eli Lilly. Previously, Reichenberg led an 87-person creative department at Rosetta Digital Marketing, comprised of art directors, designers, copywriters, UX architects, medical editors, and graphic artists, across three locations, including London. Prior to that, she held senior creative posts at New York-based Young & Rubicam, MRM//McCann and FCB.

  • Kate Howe
    gyro London
    Kate Howe was named managing director of gyro London, leading the office alongside Mike Shackle, executive creative director. Howe most recently served as European president for Draftfcb where she aided in the London acquisitions of digital agency Blue Barracuda and integrated agency Inferno. While at Draftfcb, Howe also managed the global Beiersdorf account and successfully led a number of local pitches and defended the Post Office direct response account. Nick Jefferson, who has served as managing director of gyro London since 2012, is moving to a new opportunity in Spain. "It's gyro's goal to completely redefine the B-to-B discipline as we know it," said Christoph Becker, CEO and CCO of gyro. "Kate and Mike are the right leaders to take gyro London to new levels and replicate the momentum we're experiencing in other markets."In the past year, gyro London has won Cisco and Keurig U.K. accounts while growing existing account, Shell.
  • Paul Taylor and Nigel Rahimpour
    Lowe Campbell Ewald

    Lowe Campbell Ewald hired Paul Taylor and Nigel Rahimpour join as group directors to lead strategic planning efforts on two key accounts. Taylor will lead the brand planning team for the agency's USAA account out of the San Antonio office. He will report to Kevin Wertz, managing director of Lowe Campbell Ewald's San Antonio office. Rahimpour will be based out of New York and lead brand planning for the agency's Milk Processor Education Program account. He will report to Sal Taibi, president of Lowe Campbell Ewald's New York office. Taylor joins Lowe Campbell Ewald after a stint with his own insights and strategy consultancy, Beechcroft Road. Prior to that, he was a strategy director and senior partner at MediaCom where he was responsible for setting the agency's strategic vision for brands like Revlon and Audi. Prior to MediaCom, he was a consumer planning director at Diageo, working on brands including Captain Morgan, Smirnoff and Ketel One. Rahimpour was previously a global group planning director at Saatchi & Saatchi, where he lead integrated strategies for General Mills brands such as Cheerios and Haagen-Dazs International. Prior to that, he was a planning director at Leo Burnett where he led strategy efforts on Kellogg's adult cereal brands.

  • Stephen Butler, Fabio Costa and Brent Anderson
    TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles

    TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles promoted Stephen Butler to chief creative officer. Butler joined the agency in July 2013 and was promoted following the departure of John Norman in March 2014. As part of the restructure of the Los Angeles creative department, Fabio Costa and Brent Anderson have both been promoted to executive creative directors, reporting to Butler. Butler joined TBWA in July 2013 as executive creative director from Mother London. While there, he helped grow the agency from 80 to 220 people and was also responsible for founding Mother's Experience Design unit in 2012. In the first year, he and his team handled projects for Unilever, Gucci, P&G Prestige, Elton John AIDS Foundation and the British Government. In 2006, a year after joining Mother, Stephen was asked by U2's Bono to help develop the RED project. Butler worked with Bono and RED's partner brands, including Nike, American Express, Apple, Gap and Starbucks, to engage and drive the private sector into raising awareness and funds to help eliminate HIV/AIDS in Africa. Prior to Mother, Butler was creative director at Bartle Bogle Hegarty, where he led creative for Levi's across Europe.

  • Carl Hartman
    Geometry Global

    Geometry Global, part of WPP, hired Carl Hartman as CEO of Geometry Global North America, reporting to global CEO Steve Harding. With over 20 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning advertising, media and research, Hartman created and operates the WPP shopper marketing portal. In addition, he has been the WPP Team Leader for Kimberly-Clark for the past six and half years managing all marketing communications delivered by WPP companies globally. Hartman will continue in both of these roles along with the CEO position. Prior to that, Hartman served as director of integration at MEC where he led accounts like Cadbury Schweppes, Energizer, Playtex and Schick. Current Co-CEO Sheila Hartnett will take on the new position of chairman, North America while Co-CEO Harvey Kipnis decided to step down to pursue other opportunities.

  • Ruben Mendiola
    mun2
    NBCUniversal’s Hispanic Enterprises and Content named Ruben Mendiola as president of its cable channel, mun2.
  • Peggy Conlon
    Ad Council
    Peggy Conlon is retiring as president and CEO of the Ad Council. She joined the company in 1999.
  • Rupert Runewitsch
    Leo Burnett
    Leo Burnett named Rupert Runewitsch as the head of its Social and Mobile practice in North America. Runewitsch will be based in San Francisco.
  • Doug Serton
    Kargo
    Doug Serton joined Kargo as its first head of communications.
  • Chris Halvorsen
    Synthesio
    Synthesio hired Chris Halvorsen as vice president of sales, North America.
  • Shenan Reed
    MEC
    MEC tapped Shenan Reed as president, digital, North America.
  • Tracy Bussan
    MKG
    MKG promoted Tracy Bussan to managing director of New York.
  • Michael Haldane
    Recommended
    Production company Recommended added Michael Haldane as managing director.
  • Sonya Cooper
    160over90
    160over90 hired Sonya Cooper as executive director of client services.
  • Julie Preis
    PulsePoint
    PulsePoint named Julie Preis as senior vice president, product management.
  • Taymour Martin
    TPN
    TPN added Taymour Martin as managing director, data, and analytics, based out of New York.
  • Allison Hunt
    GMR Marketing
    GMR Marketing promoted Allison Hunt to vice president of client management.
  • Andrew French and Stefan Adamczyk
    AdColony
    AdColony named Andrew French as general manager, EMEA and Stefan Adamczyk as sales director, EMEA of its European offices.
  • Meredith Brace
    true[X]
    true[X] media named Meredith Brace as director of sales, northwest region. Most recently, she was global media director, Custom Media & Strategic Partnerships for Microsoft.
  • Adam Gillman and Jessica Grant
    Fluent
    Fluent hired Adam Gillman as vice president, strategic development and Jessica Grant as director of business operations and product development.
  • Iness Pleus
    Spike TV

    Iness Pleus was promoted to senior vice president, operations, brand marketing & creative at Spike TV.

  • Detavio Samuels
    One Solution
    One Solution, a cross-platform integrated marketing initiative of Radio One and TV One, named Detavio Samuels as president.
  • Jennifer Cohan
    Edelman
    Edelman named Jennifer Cohan president of Edelman New York, effective July 1. She succeeds Russell Dubner, who was recently named CEO of Edelman U.S.
  • Josh Baumrind
    MarketLive
    MarketLive named Josh Baumrind as vice president, partner alliances.
  • Lauren Ann Bronchtein
    Hawthorne Direct
    Hawthorne Direct named Lauren Ann Bronchtein as a vice president and account director, based in the company’s Los Angeles headquarters.
  • Sophie Thiellon, Lauren Merritt and Ashley Ford
    Framestore
    Framestore hired Sophie Thiellon as executive producer of Live Action out of Framestore’s New York office. The company also hired Lauren Merritt as new business manager in New York and Ashley Ford as business development, integrated advertising, in the recently opened Los Angeles office.
  • Lena Smart
    Wasabi Rabbit
    Wasabi Rabbit hired Lena Smart as an account director.
  • Nick Hoadley
    The Integer Group
    The Integer Group hired Nick Hoadley as senior vice president, director of insight and strategy.
  • Edward Rosenthal
    Generator Media + Analytics
    Generator Media + Analytics hired Edward Rosenthal as vice president.