People On the Move - Alison Lewis leaves Coca-Cola, Astrid Van Essen becomes MD and Dermot McPartland joins Cake
Connect has appointed Guy Bevan, who previously handled planning for Karmarama in a freelance role, as its new head of insight. Bevan, who has also worked with VCCP, Draftfcb and Publicis Modem, has been tasked with strengthening the strategic thinking at the agency and for its clients including Jaguar, Land Rover, Bugatti, Baxi and Tarmac/Lafarge, as well as driving forward Connect’s growth plans for 2014.
Astrid Van Essen
The next stop for Alison Lewis, Coca-Cola's head marketer in North America, is Johnson & Johnson. She will be the first-ever global chief marketing officer of J&J’s consumer companies, reporting to Worldwide Chairman Lynn Pendergrass, also a recent hire.
MediaMonks London, the independent creative digital production agency, has promoted client services director Astrid van Essen to the role of managing director. Van Essen, who will take up her role in London on 1 November, has spent the last two years as client services director for the company at its headquarters in Amsterdam. MediaMonks works with agencies including AMV/BBDO, BBH, Iris, Mother, Saatchi & Saatchi and Work Club.
Twitter has announced that Vivian Schiller will take up the newly created role of head of news partnerships at the start of 2014. Schiller takes up the role following two years in the position of chief digital officer for NBC News.
Wunderman has appointed Lincoln Bjorkman as global chief creative officer effective immediately and he has gained a seat on the company’s board. Bjorkman, who most recently led Digitas LBi’s six North American offices, will report to Wunderman chairman and CEO Daniel Morel and has been tasked with formulating and articulating the company’s global creative strategy.
Former McCann Manchester strategy and insight director Ian Lloyd Jones has been named as the new planning director at Gyro Manchester. Jones brings experience spanning B2B, food, retail, software, betting and gaming, electronics and financial services to the role, and over the course of his career has worked with clients including Manchester United, Brother, UPS and Virgin.
Billington Cartmell has announced the appointment of Emily Knox as head of conversation. Knox previously worked at creative digital agencies in Sydney in roles including social media strategist, social media manager and blogger
We Are Social has hired Dare’s business director Lucy Doubleday, JWT’s head of technology Matt Payne and Nick Hearne, senior creative of U-Dox, it has revealed. The three senior hires will be based within the agency’s London headquarters.
Exponential Interactive has appointed its former managing director of its Asia-Pacific region, John McKoy, as chief revenue officer. McKoy will be tasked with managing all of the agency’s revenue producing external teams globally.
Channel 4 has appointed Martin Greenbank, most recently the head of intelligence at Arena Media, to the role of head of advertising research and development.
Marcus Millgate, previously general manager of G2 Korea, has been appointed to the newly created role of Head of Shopper Marketing Australia for OgilvyAction. He is charged with the responsibility of driving and delivering the Shopper Marketing Agenda for OgilvyAction in Australia.
Oli Beale and Alex Holder from Mother creative have joined Anomaly, taking stakes in the business as they join.
Laura Jordan Bambach has joined Mr President as a creative partner. She joins the agency from Dare, and was formerly creative director at LBI.
Razorfish has appointed Anders Plyhim, who joins from Farfar, alongside Rowena Vithlani who joins from Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and Josh Newnham, who joins from We Make Play,
Dermot McPartland joins Cake as its new creative director. He formerly worked for clients Stella Artois, Dell and Pot Noodle.