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April 22, 2013
  • Kate Buxton joins Creative England as head of communications and strategy.
  • Andrew McKechnie has joined DDB New York as group creative director, overseeing creative for the global Reebok account that the agency won in January. McKechnie, who reports to Matt Eastwood, chief creative officer of DDB New York, was previously executive creative director at Y&R NY, where he led the Land Rover North America, LG Global, United States Olympic Committee, and Footaction accounts.
  • McCann London has promoted co-executive creative directors Rob Doubal and Laurence Thomson to the new roles of co-presidents and chief creative officers. The promotion, one of a number of moves at McCann Worldgroup, sees them report to Gustavo Martinez, president, McCann Worldgroup Europe, Asia & Pacific. Doubal and Thomson who joined McCann London from Wieden + Kennedy in May 2012.

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April 19, 2013
  • Droga5 N.Y. names Ted Royer Chief Creative Officer.
  • Rosetta taps Tom Adamski to serve as CEO.
  • Sarah Thompson named CEO at Droga5, New York.
  • Rekha Pamani-Gulati elevated as COO at DY Works.
  • Callison LLC’s Leigh Dennis joins Cheil Worldwide.

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April 18, 2013
  • DraftFCB London has appointed David Harris as its executive creative director.
  • Adam & Eve/DDB has bolstered its strategy and planning department with the hiring of Jessica Lovell and Georgia Norton.
  • McCann names London exec Macdonald as N.Y.head.

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April 16, 2013
  • Pitch elevated Rachel Spiegelman to president.
  • CP+B hired David Measer as group planning director in the Los Angeles office, where he will lead planning for the Microsoft Windows account.
  • Big Spaceship promoted Ranae Heuer to managing director, a new position at the agency.
  • RAPP promoted Zihla Salinas to chief marketing officer.
  • MDC Partners hired Raffi Grigorian, former chief operating officer of Omnicom’s Eventive Marketing, as managing director.
  • Cheil Worldwide appointed Leigh Dennis as global vice president brand experience & managing director of Mind Design Laboratory (MD Lab), a Munich-based design house.
  • Liz Musch has been named global CEO of Ipsos ASI.
  • Cory Berger joined Pereira & O’Dell as managing director of the New York Office.

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April 15, 2013
  • Douglas Lamont, Innocent group marketing and innovation director, will become the company's first chief executive as the co-founders step away from the business.
  • Profero has promoted Ross Jenkins, the managing director of its media division Performance in the UK, to the new position of global managing director of Performance Media.