• Guerra Named Managing Director Labelium Toronto
    E-commerce agency Labelium has promoted Alejandra Guerra to managing director in Toronto and the hiring of Jamie Kokiw as director of business development based in that office.  Guerra was previously Media Director at the agency. In her new role Guerra will manage over 30 e-commerce clients across various industries and from Canadian brands such as Rudsak to international marketers such as Lexmark.
  • Mojo Supermarket Hires Strategist, Brand Directors
    Strategist Ryan McDaid is joining Mojo Supermarket. The agency has also hired two group brand directors. McDaid is best known for his work at Droga5 leading strategy on iHOP, Hennessy and most recently heading up the strategy department at Samsung’s Brand Studio. This new role reunites him with former Droga alum Mo Said, current founder/Creative Chief at Mojo. In his new role, he will be overseeing strategic efforts on multiple AOR clients as well as leading new business efforts with other strategists. In addition, the firm is beefing up its account department by hiring group brand directors Tyler Murphy from …
  • FCB Health Adds New Creative Leader
    FCB Health Network is hiring Debra Polkes as creative partner/co-managing director of FCBCURE, one of the group’s full-service healthcare agencies. In addition to creative oversight at the agency she will work closely with FCBCURE’s managing director Tammy Fischer to elevate the agency’s experiential and technology work by ramping up its XD design transformation.  She comes to the agency after spending 20 years at Omnicom, including roles at CDM Princeton, CDM US and CDM New York.
  • Razorfish Adds New BIz Dev Leader
    Razorfish has appointed Angela Yang vice president, business development to lead all new business pursuits. She will report to Cynthia McIntyre, Chief Growth Officer at Publicis Communications.Yang previously spent six years leading marketing and business development functions at Austin-based advertising agency T3. Previous stints included RDW Group and Empower MediaMarketing.
  • Chemistry Adds Three Dozen Staffers
    Chemistry added 36 new team members — 34% growth —  across production, creative, strategy and account management in 2020 as the agency expanded its diversity. In the Atlanta office, 69% of the new hires are women and 44% identify as BIPOC, and in Pittsburgh, 55% of new hires are women, with 15% identifying as BIPOC. Some of the new additions include Christy Bates, who previously served as SVP, global account director at BBDO New York, joining as VP client lead in Pittsburgh. This Pittsburgh office also adds Marcello Figallo as VP consumer experience after 20 years of working …
  • New BBH NY Leadership Team Is Set
    BBH NY has appointed Amani Duncan president and has promoted Tom Callard to Chief Strategy Officer. The appointments round out the Publicis Groupe agency’s new leadership team which also includes Rafael Rizuto who joined as Chief Creative Officer last year.  Duncan was previously MTV’s senior vice president of music. Earlier she served as head of brand marketing for Martin Guitar and senior vice president of marketing at Capitol Music Group. Callard was previously head of planning and earlier worked at BBH London. He also served as group strategy director at 72andSunny where he led strategy on Marcus by Goldman Sachs, …
  • Opus Agency Taps Ex-Nielsen CEO To Lead Shop
    Opus Agency has appointed Mitch Barns CEO. He’ll team with President Kim Koptez and work with key clients including Google, Amazon and Microsoft. The seven-office agency employs 350+ people. During his five years as CEO at Nielsen, he helped transition the company from its legacy data and information to become a more tech-enabled company, operating in over 100 countries with over $6 billion in revenues. Prior to his role as CEO, Barns led several businesses within Nielsen. Earlier in his career he worked at Procter & Gamble in marketing research and brand management. At Opus he replaces the retiring Monte …
  • FCB Health Strengthens Mosaic Team
    FCB Health Network is hiring Anna Loyeva as management director for the Mosaic Group, the network’s full-service payer and market-access healthcare agency. In this new role, she will oversee account management across all clients and brands and report to FCB Health Network director of client solutions Ross Quinn.Loyeva joins from ICON/MediMedia Managed Markets where she led the team on launches and market-access initiatives for multiple clients.
  • Sid Lee LA Expands Creative Department
    Sid Lee is adding eight new creatives in its Los Angeles office to coincide with the expansion of the agency’s client roster with the recent wins of Dos Equis, Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, and Schwan’s. The team of Christina de la Cruz and Eric Molina join as creative directors having worked as a creative duo for several years at different agencies. Their previous clients include Apple, Nike, IMAX, D'Addario, Volvo, Airbnb, Facebook, and TikTok. The creative duo Juan Davila Morris and Francisco Rojas are departing David & Goliath with a portfolio that includes campaigns for Miller Lite’s Cantroller, …
  • CPB Names New Global CEO
    CPB is appointing Marianne Malina as Global CEO replacing Erik Sollenberg - former Global CEO who moved back to Sweden, where he's from, due to a family health issue. Malina will join an evolving leadership team, including recently hired Chief Creative Officer, Jorge Calleja, and CPB veteran and Managing Director, Ryan Skubic. The agency has struggled recently, losing several big accounts like Dominos. The new leadership team is tasked with getting the MDC Partners agency back on track. Malina is a well-regarded industry veteran. In over two decades at GSD&M, she touched every department and held long-standing client relationships that …
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