WPP shopper marketing specialist POSSIBLE has appointed Anurag Gupta Chief Growth Officer.  Based out of Singapore, Gupta will be working closely with Global and Asia Pacific teams to drive POSSIBLE’s offering in the region and to key global clients. Gupta has held senior roles at WPP, DDB Mudra Max, Geometry India (Ogilvy Action), Scan Group East Africa, working with top CPG and FMCG clients. Most recently, at WPP he worked with client P&G, coordinating efforts throughout the holding on behalf of the client, a process WPP calls horizontality.   He has more than two decades of experience …

Argonaut, part of Project Worldwide, has tapped Angelique Moreno to oversee talent recruitment. She’ll report to CEO Robert Riccardi. Previously Moreno spent five years at Grey New York. According to the agency Moreno’s hire was sparked by the agency’s growth this past year. Agency executive Maura Heilbron was previously head of talent and culture but will now serve as head of culture, focusing on all aspects of life at the agency. Prior to Grey, Moreno, a Palm Springs, California native, spent more than a decade in the industry recruiting creative talent for agencies including TBWA/Chiat/Day, Wieden+Kennedy, FCB, Havas, and Saatchi …

Brilliant Noise is strengthening its leadership team with two newly created roles. Allison Wightman joins as client partner to work with adidas and Universal Pictures. Will Lockie is appointed client partner to oversee Tetra Pak and Heathrow Airport. These two senior-level hires follow a series of high-profile client wins for the marketing and communications agency including The Economist and Tetra Pak. Most recently Wightman served as co-founder of tech start-up ConnectID and previously worked as head of eBusiness at Virgin Atlantic Airways. Lockie was previously head of multichannel at Evans Cycles working with clients including Porsche, Halifax and Toyota.

Kathy DiToro, a noted producer with more than 25 years of experience, is joining Martin Williams Advertising as VP, director of content production. In this newly created role, she will lead the agency’s content studio offering, developing digital and video content to complement the output of the agency's existing broadcast and digital teams. DiToro’s appointment is a strategic expansion of the company’s existing offerings, meeting a market need for quick-turnaround, highly creative content production, the agency stated. Most recently, she developed and directed Craft Minneapolis, a studio for creative content production. She began her production career at Ogilvy New York …

Wieden+Kennedy is promoting Susan Hoffman to co-chief creative officer, alongside Colleen DeCourcy making the independent creative agency one of the few shops with two female leaders. As a senior creative, Hoffman will help to run the company as part of the agency’s global management team with DeCourcy and chief operating officer Neil Christie. The longtime creative leader and agency stakeholder joined WK 32 years ago as "employee number eight." She has helped to open W+K global offices and served as executive creative director in Portland, Amsterdam, London, New York and Delhi.  Agency clients include Nike, Old Spice, Levi’s, Chrysler, Target, …

FCB is appointing Gabrielle Simpson as director of communications and PR to help guide the IPG-owned agency's media relations. Based in NYC, she reports to global chief communications officer Brandon Cooke. She most recently served as director of communications for NBCUniversal, where she was responsible for overseeing the development of internal and external communications plans in support of the corporation’s numerous diversity initiatives. This is a new role for the agency and her arrival coincides with FCB's push to find new and innovative ways to share the agency’s overarching “Never Finished” message. “We were looking for a person with a …

McCann has appointed Pierre Lipton as a Global Executive Creative Director, McCann New York. Lipton joins McCann from 360i where he served as Chief Creative Officer.  Lipton has more than a decade of experience developing award-winning campaigns, securing new business wins and helping shape agency offerings.  In his most recent role at 360i, Lipton played a key role in connecting the tech and creative departments, helping to spearhead the agency's Innovation Group and establishing its XD capabilities.  Before that, he was CCO and Founding Partner of M&C Saatchi New York, which he joined as employee #2, helping to design the …

Guy Griggs is appointed head of revenue for the social influencer marketing agency HelloSociety and the experiential design agency Fake Love, both acquired by The New York Times Company in 2016. He will report into Kevin Sayles, general manager of the NY Times' T Brand Studio, and split his time between The Times’s headquarters in New York, Fake Love in Brooklyn and HelloSociety in Los Angeles. Griggs joins the The Times from The Washington Post where he led their New York sales team for the past two years.     

Dan Murphy is departing Google to join Deutsch as SVP director of digital operations and production in its New York office. He will oversee production of digital projects across all clients including Busch, J&J’s ACUVUE, and PNC Bank as well as manage talent on all digital production efforts.  Additionally, he will assist in new business efforts and grow digital production capabilities. “Landing talent like Dan will be a game changer for the New York office," says Winston Binch, chief digital officer, Deutsch North America. The ex-Google Creative Lab executive producer worked on Android’s “Be Together. Not the Same” campaign launch …

In the latest iteration of Mindshare’s adaptive marketing practice (aka real-time marketing) the WPP media agency has appointed Norm Johnston CEO of FAST (Future Adaptive Specialist Team). Johnston also retains his previous role as Global Chief Digital Officer of the agency.  Adam Ray, formerly global head of programmatic at Mindshare Worldwide, is promoted to chief innovation officer for FAST.  Tom Johnson, currently performance marketing director at Mindshare Worldwide, adds the role of chief client officer for FAST. These executives will be based in London. Meanwhile, Gowthaman Ragothaman, currently Mindshare APAC chief operating officer, is appointed global chief strategy officer for …