INNOCEAN USA tapped Kathleen Kindle as planning director on the agency's Hyundai Motor America account. Kindle reports to Don Longfellow, senior vice president/account planning. She joins INNOCEAN from Siegel + Gale Los Angeles, where she led strategic development programs for clients including: Caesars Entertainment, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Dow AgroSciences, Hawaii Medical Services Association and City of Hope. Prior to Siegel + Gale, Kindle worked for other Los Angeles-based agencies like TBWA\Chiat\Day, Fraser Communications and Sapient.
Nathan Frank joined Goodby Silverstein & Partners New York as creative director. The move reunites Frank with his former partner, Paul Caiozzo, who took over as executive creative director earlier this month. Frank joins the agency following the sale of design-centric pharmaceutical company, Help Remedies, where he served as chief creative officer and cofounder since 2009. Frank spent his earlier career as a copywriter and creative director for NYC advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi, BBH, TAXI and Cliff Freeman & Partners. His work for Procter & Gamble's Tide to Go ("Talking Stain") won multiple advertising awards and was voted YouTube's favorite Super Bowl ad of 2008. At GS&P, Frank will work on new business projects. "Nathan is a rare three-headed beast. A wildly original creative, an extremely intelligent strategic thinker and also someone who is willing to be my friend," said Caiozzo.
Leo Burnett Worldwide hired Kat Gates as global creative director. Gates will report to Mark Tutssel, chief creative officer of Leo Burnett Worldwide, and will manage creative product across the agency's P&G Always feminine care portfolio of work. Gates joins the agency from Publicis New York where she served as group creative director. While there, she worked on the 2012 Summer Olympics campaign for Bounty paper towels dubbed: "Let the Spills Begin." Prior to Publicis New York, she served as regional creative director, western Europe, at Saatchi & Saatchi Frankfurt, managing creative strategy for Pampers and Iams. Throughout her career, Gates has worked on brands including M&M/Mars, Miller Lite, Delta Airlines, Tylenol and Foot Locker, among others.
Ogilvy & Mather New York hired Keith Anderson as executive creative director, head of art, for Ogilvy & Mather New York. Anderson will focus on IBM, BlackRock and new business and report to Steve Simpson, chief creative officer, Ogilvy & Mather, North America. Most recently, Anderson worked at AMV BBDO, where led the BlackBerry account. Prior to that, he spent nearly two decades at Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, where he rose to become associate partner and director of design. Anderson has created work for Adobe, HP, Nike and the Wall Street Journal, among others.
McKinney promoted Will Chambliss, associate creative director who joined the agency in 2010 from Arnold Worldwide, to creative director. In addition, Owen Tingle, associate creative director who joined McKinney in 2005 from The Creative Circus, was also elevated to creative director. Chambliss began his career as a copywriter at Fitzgerald+CO in Atlanta, where he worked on Coke, Durex, Quikrete and Aruba. He then spent the next six years at Arnold in Boston, where he produced a Super Bowl spot for ESPN; created campaigns for American Legacy's anti-smoking truth campaign, Timberland, Volvo and Fidelity; and became a creative director on Carnival Cruises. Most recently, Chambliss worked on the Join the Nation campaign for Nationwide Insurance, including the brand spot, "Baby." Tingle joined McKinney in 2005 and directed his very first commercial "The Play" in 2006 for Sony. Tingle has spent the last 18 months working on campaigns for Nationwide Insurance and Big Boss Brewing. He also recently worked on Travelocity, including conception of the recent #iWannaGo program within the Go & Smell the Roses campaign. "Will and Owen have been the creative backbone for us on Nationwide," said Liz Paradise, Group Creative Director at McKinney. "They're totally ambidextrous in that they not only do a lot of the work, but they deftly manage and mentor other creatives on the account. These promotions really just reflect the important roles they had already been playing."