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People on the move featuring Unilever, Amaze, Uber and more

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By Jenny Cleeton, Social Media & Video Content Creator

March 24, 2017 | 7 min read

This week has seen another wave of appointments and departures at brands, media owners and agencies. The Drum has rounded up the key moves from the EMEA, APAC and North America regions below.

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People on the move featuring Desiree Lopez, Icy Li Yuhong and Kris Kellar

EUROPE

Unilever

Unilever will be on the lookout for a new UK and Ireland media director as Alex Tait departs to launch a consultancy venture, drawing from his 17 years of experience in the industry working with some of the biggest brands.

Having worked at Unilever since 2015, Tait has been at the coal face of the marketing industry and understandably has decided to strike out on his own at a time when his expertise in media has never been more in demand.

Paddy Power

Paddy Power has created the position of ‘head of Trump betting’, a role which will task the successful candidate with managing the brand’s newly launched ‘hub’ of specials around the US President while also keeping up with his press conferences, statements, tweets and “general idiocy”.

The three-month contract is based in Dublin and involves monitoring and managing existing Trump markets while devising new specials to launch.

Publicis London

Publicis London has appointed Dom Boyd as chief strategy officer in a bid to strengthen its strategic offering.

Coming from adamandeveDDB as its group head of planning, Boyd will report to Nick Farnhill, chief executive of Publicis London and Poke. He will work alongside executive creative director Dave Monk and chairman Karen Buchanan.

Amaze

Amaze, the digital marketing, technology and commerce specialists, have confirmed Alex Comyn in the post of chief strategy officer, helping to marry data intelligence and experience design within the company.

Comyn joined Amaze seven years ago, rising through the ranks to become strategic director with responsibility for leading the digital direction of brands such as Toyota, Hiscox, Unilever and Lexus.

Huge

Huge has appointed Christopher Koller as vice president of strategy as he returns having previously worked in the agency's Brooklyn office as group vice president of brand experience.

In his new role, based in London, Koller will work to help clients with connected, relevant and purposeful brand marketing.

Appboy

Appboy has appointed Daniel Head as senior vice president of global sales and James Manderson as general manager and regional success lead for EMEA.

Manderson was previously head of CRM at Universal Music Group International where he headed CRM for Shelter. Head, with over 20 years experience, will oversee the global sales organisation and work to grow the customer base while working across the globe.

Flamingo

Flamingo has hired Desiree Lopez to lead the development of the company's behavioural and science offer.

The newly created role, will see Desiree join the senior leadership of the business while being based in London.

Auto Trader

Auto Trader has poached Volkswagen's ex UK sales head Ian Plummer as manufacturer and agency director.

With over 20 years experience in the automotive industry, Plummer will be responsible for building strategic relationships with all UK automotive manufactures and their partners.

APAC

IPG Mediabrands

IPG Mediabrands have named Arun Kumar as the group’s first chief data and marketing officer.

This will be in addition to his current role as global president of Cadreon, IPG’s programmatic technology arm. In this new role, Kumar will manage the global operations of Cadreon, as well as oversee Mediabrands insights and technology divisions.

Havas

Havas China has appointed Icy Li Yuhong as Shanghai managing director.

Having previously held various senior strategic roles for Publicis Groupe Shanghai and Wieden & Kennedy, Yuhong will lead the operations of Havas Shanghai and as well as managing existing and new client relatinships along with driving growth.

AppNexus

Kaylie Smith has been appointed as managing director

NORTH AMERICA

Uber

Uber president Jeff Jones has extended a run of departures at the troubled ride hailing app after throwing in the towel just six months into his tenure.

It is unclear exactly why Jones chose this juncture to quit with reports from the BBC suggesting that he was left exasperated after being looked over for the role of chief operating officer after learning he was not amongst the candidates - although Recode believes that he was propelled out the exit door by an ongoing sexism storm.

Zenith

After a brief stint at OMD, Mac Hagel is returning to Zenith to head up the agency’s West Coast operations.

Hagel initially joined Zenith in 2012 as senior vice president-strategy. In this role, he oversaw both the JPMorgan Chase and H&M accounts. In 2014, he transitioned to executive vice president-media lead to oversee the agency’s Verizon account.

AKQA

AKQA has appointed Mark Uttley to group strategy director at AKQA’s San Francisco office. Mark will lead the research and insights discipline, which is integral to the company’s brand strategy practice.

The brand strategy practice, which also includes business strategy, communications strategy and data science, helps AKQA design the end-to-end brand experiences for companies like Audi, Caterpillar and Delta.

Cadreon

Cadreon has named Arun Kumar as its first ever chief data and marketing technology officer.

In the newly created role, Kumar will work on the development, prioritisation and management of the companys data, technology and applications. He will also continue with his current role.

Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil has bolstered its team with two new executives, Scott Murray as vice president of creative content and Dani Kollin as creative director.

Having previously lead content teams at Herzog & Company and Buddha Jones to name a few, Murray will lead the creative content team. While Kollin will the creative on the agencys Softbank Robotics account.

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