Publicis Groupe's premium/luxury brand-focused agency Team One is hiring Kirsten Rutherford as executive creative director to lead all creative output for Expedia globally, including oversight of work and client teams in Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Tokyo.  Previously Rutherford was creative director at TBWA\Chiat\Day, where she led brands like Intuit QuickBooks, Persil, Southwest Airlines and Viking Cruises.

BSSP (formerly known as Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners) is elevating Matthew Curry to Partner. Curry replaced founding partner John Butler – who previously announced he was moving to co-chair last fall – and has been working alongside CEO David Eastman, who succeeded founding partner Greg Stern.  Curry will continue to serve in his current chief creative officer role. With his integrated and digitally-focused background, Curry will focus his efforts on creative output, talent, work process, new business and overall leadership. Before joining BSSP in September, Curry worked at 72andSunny as group creative director leading work for Google, Activision, and …

The&Partnership is hiring Justin Ruben as executive creative director to lead creative for the firm’s New York office. He will report to Agnes Fischer, president, New York at The&Partnership. Ruben previously served as group creative director at Droga5 where he led creative for the agency’s Chase, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Kraft, Diet Coke and Ancestry accounts.

Twitter is hiring Doug Brodman as the platform's new U.S. agency development director assuming the responsibilities of Stephanie Prager who has been elevated to lead global agency development. Reporting to Prager and based in New York, Brodman will lead the platform's American team to help agencies and their clients create programming, content and media solutions.  Brodman has spent the past five years at Google as a part of the U.S. agency team, leading strategic deals & partnerships with the largest U.S. media agencies and top clients across media & entertainment, CPG, automotive and retail. During that time, he is credited …

Encore Digital Media is hiring Stephen Noble as client director to lead the agency's client-facing teams. He’ll also advise on strategy and oversee programmatic solutions with a focus on in-housing. Noble joins from WPP’s GroupM, where he was director of its programmatic display team. Earlier he worked for 13 years with GroupM’s Mindshare as head of trading for both Digital Display and Publishing. 

Colle McVoy is hiring Tracy Richards as the agency's first creative operations director to lead resourcing and staffing within the agency’s creative department and provide input on operating best practices. She was most recently VP of talent at VSA Partners in Chicago, where she led the talent team and managed day-to-day resourcing.   

She Runs It (formerly Advertising Women of New York), is celebrating marketing, media and tech leaders who skillfully navigate the multiple demands of work and motherhood. In addition to 22 individual honorees, the organization is also recognizing three outstanding companies for working mothers. The 2019 corporate honorees are Colle McVoy, IPG Mediabrands and Swift. The winners were chosen for activating policies and practices to create a supportive environment for mothers who want to excel as parents and as corporate and community leaders. The selection criteria focused on the number of women in leadership and client-facing roles, the scope of paid/flexible leave that companies provide to …

Madwell, the Brooklyn-based advertising agency has appointed Alice Too as the agency’s managing director in its recently opened Hong Kong office.  A Hong Kong native and University of Toronto alum, Too has over 20 years of agency experience with shops like Saatchi & Saatchi, and J. Walter Thompson and Grey. She most recently spent 3 years with Activation Group, where she led its branding and advertising business unit in Shanghai.    

The Many, formerly known as Mistress, is hiring Davis Jones to the newly created role of managing director, media services. His primary task will be to continue expanding the agency’s media group and developing a team of both traditional and non-traditional media experts. Jones joins The Many from Crossmedia where he served as group media director, his first stint at a media-only agency after 12 years at full-service creative agencies such as Swirl, Doremus, Colle+McVoy and Goodby Silverstein & Partners.