Trading places: this week's people moves

Jerome Lemaire takes charge of Reckitt Benckiser's UK marketing and Mark Cridge resurfaces at design consultancy Berg, in this week's round-up of people moves across advertising, marketing and media.

Mark Cridge joins BERG London as director of consulting
Mark Cridge joins BERG London as director of consulting

Advertising


Mark Cridge, the founder of Glue and the former global managing director of Aegis Media's Isobar network, has joined the design consultancy BERG London in the new role of director of consulting. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Marketing


Qsoft Consulting Limited
, the owner of GaydarRadio and Gaydar.co.uk, has appointed former Westfield marketer Kevin Smith as its first chief marketing officer. ()

Marjorie Scardino, chief executive of Financial Times publisher Pearson, is stepping down at the end of 2012 and will be replaced by John Fallon, chief executive of Pearson's international education division. ()

Honda has today (2 October) appointed internal candidate Martin Moll to replace Ian Armstrong as head of the company's European marketing operations. ()

Reckitt Benckiser has appointed Jerome Lemaire as UK marketing director amid a reshuffle that is sending incumbent Stefan Gaa to head the FMCG firm's Japanese business. ()

Media


The7stars has appointed the MEC client activation director, Susan Clarke, as its head of digital. She replaces Julian Ireland, who is leaving the7stars to explore other options. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Profero Performance, the media division of Profero, has appointed Mona Walsh, formerly a senior social media strategist at Momentum Worldwide, as its first head of social strategy. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

MediaCom has hired David Beale from Vizeum as its managing director of Direct MediaCom UK. Beale, the managing partner, integrated performance, at Vizeum takes the position previously held by Darren Barber, who has been appointed as the EMEA regional director of the agency's Dell account. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Ocean Outdoor has appointed Shaun Gregory, the global director of advertising at Telefónica, as a non-executive director. ()

Dallas Wiles, currently group business director of JCDecaux, has been promoted to the role of director of trading, replacing Daemon Brown, who is moving to taxi advertising company VeriFone Media. ()

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