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Advertising

Nigel Jones, the UK group chairman and chief executive at Publicis, is leaving after five years to take a global strategy role at DraftFCB. Jones, who heads the group that includes Publicis London, Publicis Blueprint and Publicis Chemistry, does not yet have a leaving date. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Lowe & Partners has appointed Jeremy Hine as its first president for Europe, Middle East and Africa. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

PHD, the Omnicom Media Group agency, has promoted Avril Canavan, its worldwide PR and communications director, to the new role of worldwide marketing and communications director. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

M&C Saatchi has promoted Camilla Harrisson to chief executive of the agency to replace Carrie Hindmarsh, who stepped down in July to focus on non-executive work. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Adam & Eve/DDB has hired Toby Harrison from Droga5 as a planning partner. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Former Fallon managing partner and chief marketing officer Chris Willingham has become the latest high-profile recruit at social media data analytics business Starcount. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Creative agency 101 has hired Simon Schmitt, a creative director at Sid Lee Amsterdam, to the same role at the shop. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Embrace, the integrated communications agency, has appointed Andrew Paterson as creative director following the promotion of Paul Turner to the new role of creative strategy and planning director. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Marketing

Pinterest has appointed Sarah Bush as its first UK country manager as it seeks to grow the brand outside of its core US market. ()

Toyota has appointed Chris Hayes as its UK marketing director, two years after scrapping the role as part of a restructure. ()

Argos has revealed ex-Ladbrokes marketer Stephen Vowles as its new marketing head, as it looks to become a leader in digital retail. ()

Renault has appointed Michael van der Sande from Aston Martin as its senior vice-president of marketing. The former Nissan and Harley Davidson marketer will replace Stephen Norman, whose new role will be announced separately. ()

BMW has appointed its UK marketing director Chris Brownridge to the position of director of Mini UK. ()

Media

Jeremy Male has left his leadership role as chief executive of JCDecaux, UK and Northern Europe after 13 years to become chief executive of arch rival CBS Outdoor Americas. ()

Bruce Daisley, the sales director at Twitter, has been promoted to UK country manager, replacing Tony Wang. (

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NBC Universal's global head of advertising sales Chris Shaw has joined rival network Viacom International Media Networks as executive vice-president and managing director of sales division, Be Viacom. ()

Talon has appointed former Posterscope convergence business director Richard Simkins to the newly created position of innovations director. ()

Weve, the mobile ad network created by Vodafone, O2 and EE, has hired LivingSocial's head of sales Nigel Clarkson as its first permanent commercial director. ()

PR

Political Lobbying and Media Relations has hired former BBC presenter and RBS Insurance head of content Mike Ramsden in the new role of head of broadcast. ()

Former Camelot head of corporate affairs Simon Burton has joined Tesco as interim group head of government affairs. (

Nick Grange, who joined W in January to set up its tech division, has stepped down from a full-time role with the agency. ()

Claire Furlong has been appointed head of media for England's athletes at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of a contract with her consultancy 16Ten. ()

NHS England's incoming head of comms Simon Enright has been charged with helping use his experience in driving local engagement to promote "openness, honesty and transparency". Enright will start his role in October. ()

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has appointed David Waller, comms boss of the world's largest listed hedge fund Man Group, as director of external relations. ()