It's hard to keep up with all the latest moves across media, marketing and advertising, so we've made a list. Check out the biggest moves in adland from this week.
Henry Tajer joins Seven West Media as chief commercial officer
He is one of Australia's most senior advertising and marketing executives, with a 25-year career that includes roles here and in the US, including with IPG Mediabrands, Amazon Media Group and Dentsu Aegis Network.
Tom Dodd promoted to chief strategy officer at Initiative
Dodd was head of media at IAG, Initiative’s client, managing the media business across the brand portfolio, including NRMA Insurance and CGU.
Rochelle Chhaya becomes Hearts & Science CEO APAC
As the network’s first APAC CEO, Chhaya, who has been with OMG for over 14 years and most recently served as CEO of OMG Thailand, will oversee the continued expansion of Hearts & Science in APAC.
DDB's Kate Sheppard appointed managing director Connecting Plots
Sheppard brings 20 years of executive leadership experience working within the DDB network, where she acted as a senior client leader for brands including McDonald’s, Wrigley, Arnott’s, Virgin Australia, Unilever, PepsiCo, and J&J.
Ronny Raichura joins Match & Wood as head of digital and transformation
Raichura will be based in Match & Wood’s new office in Cremorne Melbourne, and will be responsible for their digital product nationally.
Karen Halligan appointed chair of UnLtd
The CEO of OzTAM has served on the UnLtd board for six years.
ACM promotes Jarrah Petzold to CMO
He joined ACM 18 months ago as director of marketing.
Snap appoints first ANZ talent partnerships lead
Reporting to Snap’s director of global content partnerships, Jim Shepherd, Chris Lewis will lead strategy, outreach and onboarding efforts with local creators and develop partnerships.
Paul Murphy to run Ebiquity ANZ
Headquartered in Sydney, he will report to Leela Nair, managing director of APAC, and will be responsible for leading the company’s strategy and business operations.
Afterpay's Andrew Balint becomes Airwallex's APAC VP of marketing
Most recently he was the VP of marketing ANZ and APAC at Afterpay for four years, leading the buy-now-pay-later platform’s marketing efforts across brand, growth marketing, product marketing and customer experience.
Guardian promotes Justin Easter, Delwyn Smith to state sales directors
They will both report to Shannon Hollis, head of advertising.
Andrew Cook resigns from Are Media
He joined the business in 2020 after serving as general manager of sales for The Australian.
Audience Group mixes up leadership
Co-founder and managing director Tom Evans will become chief operating officer, co-founder and director of strategy James McDonald will take on the managing director role.
Jessica Bailey named editor of ELLE Australia
She previously held a decade-long role as editorial director of Grazia Australia.
Melissa Matheson becomes editor of WHO
She joins WHO with more than two decades’ experience in content strategy, audience growth and journalism, working across several print and digital publications in Australia, including Pedestrian Group (Insider, Gizmodo, Kotaku and Lifehacker).
Ashton Tuckerman becomes TwentyTwo Digital's first GM
Tuckerman joins the team having previously held roles as CMO and GM at global catering marketplace Gathar, and account director at Havas Red.
LoopMe expands to Melbourne and hires HS Shin
Having previously spent two years as client partner at TikTok, Shin’s new role will see him expanding LoopMe’s client base.
Bri Nixon promoted to creative director at Willow & Blake
Nixon has brought her holistic creative approach to clients such as KEVIN.MURPHY, frank body, Bakers Delight, Heinz, BMW, Suzuki, Jacob’s Creek, Asahi, DISSH, Lucas Restaurants, and Bed Threads.
9News Queensland's Andrew Lofthouse retires
Lofthouse has been with Nine for 17 years, 16 of those spent beside his on air partner, Melissa Downes.
Independent creative agency Whippet reengineers team
Former client services director Adam Rafferty steps into the role of customer and strategy director, Lucy Yeo has been hired as MD and Lauren Hughes has been promoted to operations director.
Jordan Scott promoted at Veridooh
Australian adtech company has promoted Jordan Scott from agency and client partnerships director - ANZ to head of agency and client partnerships. He has been with the company since 2023, having worked at Seen This prior.
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