Hasta La Creative!

J. Walter Thompson London is appointing Jo Wallace as creative director, one of a number of new creative hires reporting to Executive Creative Director Lucas Peon. Wallace most recently worked with Publicis and Tribal DDB as a freelance creative, and has been regional creative director for Europe at Saatchi & Saatchi and creative director at DraftFCB, now FCB Inferno. Recently she has organized several industry art exhibitions including “There’s a Good Girl” which showcased female creative talent, and “There’s a Good Immigrant,” celebrating the diverse perspectives migrants bring to the creative industry. She also hosts a dining event, “Good Girls Eat Dinner” to champion inspirational female role models across the creative industries. Other new hires at JWT London include associate creative directors Rob Bovington and Steve Webley, who have worked at Adam & Eve/DDB and Possible, creating campaigns for Budweiser, Knorr, Hasbro, Danone and Volkswagen. Also new are creatives Juliet Mclaren and Courtney Dow, who most recently worked at VCCP, on campaigns for brands such as O2 and EasyJet.

Proximity Worldwide is promoting Eva Santos to global chief creative officer of the Omnicom-owned network. She’ll keep her current job as chief creative officer of Proximity Spain, and remain based in Barcelona. Santos, who joined Proximity Spain as a copywriter in 2002, has been CCO for three years and was named one of Ad Age’s Women to Watch Europe this year. She is behind some of Spain’s most-awarded campaigns, including Audi Spain’s 2016 holiday campaign “The Doll Who Chose to Drive,” and Bijoux Indiscrets’ “Orgasm Sound Library.”

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