Catherine Davis Joins Cheil UK as Chief Growth Officer

Cheil UK has appointed Catherine Davis as the agency’s chief growth officer for the UK and Europe, responsible for “driving business growth across Europe with a specific focus on the UK market.” She will report directly to Cheil UK chief operating officer Matt Pye. The hire follows the appointment of Cheil UK’s president global chief growth officer, Lotta Malm-Hallqvist, in January.

Davis arrives from Grey London, where she has served as chief marketing officer since October of 2013 and new business and marketing director since 2009. Before joining Grey, Davis was marketing and PR director for CHINA NOW, “the largest festival devoted to China that the UK has ever seen.” She has also worked as a board account director for RKCR/Y&R and Burkitt DDB, a communications director for Leo Burnett/Magellan and senior account manager for TBWA.

“Cat’s new business record at Grey speaks for itself. She’s a phenomenal appointment, and follows hot on the heels of Lotta Malm-Hallqvist as global growth officer,” said Pye. “This underlines Cheil’s ambition to secure rapid growth with high-quality clients. It’s a really exciting time to be part of the Cheil network.”

Cheil UK Builds Camera-Bot for Samsung

Inspired by the Mars exploration rovers, Cheil UK built a “web user-controlled camera-bot, the first of its kind, called the NX Rover, for Samsung to showcase the unique connectivity of the Galaxy NX Camera.” Needless to say, it’s pretty badass.

To demonstrate the Galaxy NX’s capabilities, Cheil UK is sending the NX Rover on an international trip to “a series of extraordinary places and events.” Planned stops include London Super Comic Convention, an FC Bayern Munich training session, on-location in Iceland, and an after-hours visit to a major London museum. Samsung will also be giving interested parties the opportunity to take control of the NX Rover and snap shots with the Galaxy NX camera. To accomplish this, Cheil “built an interface which will give users real time control of the camera via a ‘point and click’ function.” Users can also control the arm of the Rover which can extend up to 2m high. Among the other Rover functions are up/down movement of the arm, 360-degrees pan and tilt/pivot of the camera, as well as focus and zoom.

“We wanted to reignite the spirit of adventure and put the NX in to the hands of the photographers everywhere, and do it in a way that did justice to this game-changing product,” says Cheil UK COO Matt Pye. “Through the NX Rover keen photographers will have the opportunity to see and capture some of the world’s most interesting places and characters in an entirely new way.”

If you’d like to try out the NX Rover experience yourself, head on over to Samsung’s microsite and check it out.

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