Hasta La Creative!

Several months after the April announcement that Peggy Conlon would step down after 15 years as president/CEO of The Ad Council, the group has announced her successor: Lisa Sherman will assume the role starting November 3rd.

Sherman spent eight years launching and managing Viacom’s LGBT-themed channel Logo TV, where she currently serves as EVP/general manager. Sherman announced her resignation from that role nearly one year ago, and in the meantime has held advisory roles such as Vice Chair of the Board of the New York City-based God’s Love We Deliver.

Before joining Logo, Sherman spent nearly two decades in various communications/marketing roles with Verizon and founded a marketing services company called Women’s Sports Network. She also brings agency experience to the new role after spending two two years at Hill Holliday New York as EVP/SVP of new business and account management.

Laura Desmond, the global CEO of Starcom MediaVest who became the Council’s new chair in July, had this to say about Sherman:

 “Her background spanning media, advertising and corporate brands, as well as the charitable arena, provide her with a unique 360 view that will serve the Ad Council well.”

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Here’s one we missed today: Jay Benjamin of Saatchi & Saatchi New York has signed two new ECDs to his roster.

In what looks like one of the bigger moves made since Benjamin left Leo Burnett for Saatchi in April, he hired Chris Moreira and Mark Schöller, both of whom most recently served as creative directors in CP+B’s Miami office.

The two are native Australians, and they worked together at both JWT and Leo Burnett’s Sydney offices before moving to Miami just over a year ago.

AdAge notes that the pair will be “working across the agency’s account portfolio”, which most recently included work for Cheerios (Honey Nut and otherwise), UGG and Duracell.

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Today we learned that Friday will be Executive Producer/Head of Studio Marc Calamia‘s last day with 360i – house of digital campaigns, animated manifestos and the Super Bowl tweet that spawned ten thousand headlines.

While the specifics of his next gig are not yet clear, we can say that he will be replaced by Phil Pessaro, executive producer/project manager and group production director who previously spent time at Huge, Tribal Worldwide and Digitas New York.

As head of the agency’s studio, Calamia oversaw creative production for client campaigns including Oreo’s Vine account, the Breast Cancer Awareness “This is Mamming” meme, and many bacon-themed spots for Oscar Meyer.

Internal memo after the jump.

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In quick staffing news, Dick de Lange has left R/GA after working in its planning department for more than three years to assume the top role at Y&R.

de Lange joined R/GA in August 2011 after spending just over a year as head of group planning at JWT New York. Prior to that stint, he spent five years with Saatchi & Saatchi, splitting that time between the agency’s Sydney and New York offices. He also spent most of a decade with DDB in Amsterdam, Sydney and Chicago.

While de Lange joined R/GA to run the Nike account, he most recently worked on Samsung global — and Adweek tells us that his hire serves to replace outgoing planner Hope Cowan.

Since de Lange will lead the department, he will work on all of the agency’s existing accounts.

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Back in July we reported that ECD Michael Canning had left Leo Burnett’s New York office, and today we know where he went: to the West Coast and a new group creative director role at 72andSunny.

Canning — another Australian — was hired by Burnett in 2011 along with his creative partner Kieran Antill in order to help the agency open its then-fledgling New York office along with current Saatchi CCO Jay Benjamin.

For context: Sydney native Canning wrote copy for Lowe Hunt and BMF before moving to Leo Burnett in his home country; he’s also won an award or two. His quote from the release:

“LA has emerged as the new epicenter of branded content, tech and entertainment, and 72andSunny is right in the middle of that.”

72?s most recent creative staffing announcement concerned the promotion of GCD Matt Murphy to partner; the agency also lost CD Jamie Reilly to indie agency Kastner & Partners earlier this summer in what looks like an unrelated move. The release offers no details on which accounts Canning will handle or to whom he will report.

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We learned this afternoon that Nick Drake – former global managing director at TBWAChiatDay who just happens to share the name of our favorite semi-obscure late 60?s British folk singer – is no longer with Quiksilver, the company that made those surfboards all our friends used to ride the pathetic Myrtle Beach waves in the early 90?s.

The company’s CEO Andy Mooney noted that Drake’s departure marks a downsizing for the company and that nine other marketing positions were also eliminated.

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Today McKinney announced the appointment of Adam Levine, who most recently served as EVP/global brand marketing director at Deutsch, as its new CMO.

Levine landed at Deutsch’s New York office just over three years ago to help the agency run its Microsoft account. Before that, he spent one year and eight months as chief growth officer at what was then DraftFCB before leaving in January 2011, and the release notes that he helped defend the Merck and White House Office of National Drug Control Policy accounts during that period.

The new CMO has a more extensive agency history than most: his first stint as a Deutsch employee lasted nearly a decade and ended with him serving as EVP/brand director, and he also spent five years working on new business at DDB.

Levine officially left Deutsch for the second time six months ago to become a self-described “free agent”, and in the press release McKinney Chairman/CEO Brad Brinegar clarifies that he will “split his time between McKinney’s new offices in SoHo [which opened in January 2013] and our headquarters office in Durham”. We enjoyed Levine’s official quote:

“…I won’t rhapsodize some BS about my role. It’s actually quite simple: Grow the agency.”

His roles outside the world of advertising include Chairman of the Board at Live Out Loud, a nonprofit created to help gay youth further their own careers by connecting them with established professionals in the community.

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While we have very little to go on at the moment, a tipster tells us that Larry Hampel, who spent nearly a decade at Cramer-Krasselt and most recently held the executive creative director title, is no longer with the agency.

Things we do know: Hampel joined the agency almost exactly ten years ago to become one of the co-creative directors in its then-new New York office. This move followed a ten-year stint running Hampel/Stefanides, the agency he co-founded with fellow CD Dean Stefanides. His work during that period includes multiple PSAs attributed the Ad Council.

A tipster pointed us toward Hampel’s LinkedIn profile, which lists his current position as “Chief Creative Officer, Self-Employed” and has his stint with Cramer-Krasselt ending this year.

Unfortunately, we have not received word from the agency today so we can’t elaborate on the details of the story. More information as it arrives.

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Leo Burnett London announced today the addition of creative directors Matt Collier and Wayne Robinson.

The creative team arrives from DDB Chicago, where they have worked together since 2011. While at DDB, the pair won over 20 awards, including five Cannes Lions for brands Skittles, Milky Way, Walls, and government-backed adult education program GED. Prior to moving to the states for their DDB Chicago gig, Collier and Robinson began their careers at JWT London before moving on to CHI & Partners. While in the UK, the pair won over 100 awards, working with clients including Shell, Nestle, Toyota, Mazda, Kellogg’s, News International and 888.com. (more…)

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Today we confirmed that Christine Moore, who most recently served as CFO at mcgarrybowen, has left the agency to join KBS.

Moore served as CFO of world markets at IPG Media Brands before joining mcgarrybowen in May 2013 to replace outgoing partner/CFO/COO Erik Vukmirovich. In her new role, she will serve as the first global chief operating officer at KBS.

The hire follows KBS’s acquisition of London-based Albion, and part of Moore’s new responsibilities will involve winning new business and further establishing the agency’s footprint in the UK and Europe.

Moore worked in several financial positions at IPG before joining mcgarry; prior to entering the agency world, she held the position of senior group manager, advertising procurement at PepsiCo.

In other mcgarry news, today the agency announced the hiring of Katherine Lumb to serve as group planning director on the Verizon account. Lumb joins from Publicis Kaplan Thaler, where she held the VP/director of strategic planning position and worked on such accounts as Procter & Gamble Oral Care (among others). Earlier roles include VP, director of strategy & analysis at Publicis Modem and VP, creative experience director at Publicis Dialog.

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