• by Fern Siegel , January 9, 2025

Harbour Group, the marketing services company launched by the agency collective Harbour with Curious and Flourish in August 2024, has named two senior appointments.

Caitlin Ryan is its first group non-executive director. In the new post, Ryan, a former vice president of Meta’s EMEA Creative Shop, will advise the Harbour Group board.

A creative ad vet, she has held roles at various agencies, including Proximity, Karmarama and Cheil Worldwide. During nearly six years at Meta, she led creative output across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, delivering award-winning campaigns.

In addition, Harbour tapped Charlie Canetty-Clarke as its group new business director. She joins from Digitas, where she served as new business and partnerships lead. Prior to this, she worked at Rufus Leonard, part of the Harbour Collective before being acquired by Capgemini.

Canetty-Clarke will develop Harbour Group’s new business strategy, starting with Curious and Flourish, before expanding her focus to other agencies joining the group. She reports to Paul Hammersley, CEO of Harbour Group.

London-based Harbour Group is comprised of specialist marketing agencies under a shared ownership. The group plans to acquire additional agencies in key service areas, including customer acquisition and optimization, social, content and customer experience.

Ryan said: "Harbour’s founders share that bold, forward-thinking vision, building an agency model designed for the future — agile, flexible and free from the constraints of legacy systems."

Canetty-Clarke added: "The way brands work with marketing agencies has evolved, and the Harbour team brings the curiosity and ambition needed to adapt to these shifting demands."

Agency clients include Google Fitbit, BT, Heineken and John Lewis & Partners.