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Advertising

Cheil UK has appointed Jon Buckley, the digital director of Mesh Marketing, as its first head of social to boost its social credentials. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

The Marketing Store has appointed Sav Evangelou as its executive creative director, across all of the agency's clients including McDonald's, Carlsberg and Britvic. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Wunderman UK has appointed Isobar's Joseph Morgan, as well as Pierre Camboly and Kevin Mercer, from 1000heads, to its strategy team. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Bartle Bogle Hegarty has hired Sam Oliver and Shish Patel as creative directors from Wieden & Kennedy. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

LKW Lowe's Lowe Open has appointed associate production director at AKQA Will Garwood as digital project director. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Rebecca Moody is leaving Adam & Eve/DDB for Ogilvy & Mather, where she will take up the new role of chief strategy officer. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Marketing

Npower has hired former Nationwide head of brands and marketing Alastair Pegg as its head of engagement marketing, as it seeks to position itself as the best energy firm for customer service. ()

Media

Rene Rechtman, chief executive of AOL Be On, is set to walk away from the internet giant, five months after having helped launch the branded video operation. ()

Channel 4 has appointed Simon Wells, the head of IP and entertainment formats at Drum OMG, as partnership controller for funded content and creative solutions. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

PR

Porter Novelli has appointed former Freud Communications director Fenella Grey as deputy managing director. ()

Scott McLean has parted ways with Speed Communications a year after he was appointed to the role of joint managing director. McLean’s departure now leaves Kate Bosomworth, who joined after her agency KTB PR was last July, as sole managing director. ()

Havas-owned financial and corporate agency Maitland has bolstered its team with two senior appointments. Martin Barrow, The Times’ former news editor, has joined the firm as a partner, while Laura Conaghan (née Humble) comes in as an associate partner from Man Group. ()

InVentiv Health has appointed medical biochemist and social media expert Emma D’Arcy as head of participatory medicine in its digital team. ()

Tracey Boles, former city and business editor of the Sunday Express, has joined corporate comms consultancy ReputationInc as a director in its UK office. ()

The Ministry of Justice has made Christian Cubitt head of news following his interim stint as the prime minister's deputy spokesman. ()

The former comms director of homelessness charity Shelter, Kay Boycott, has taken a chief executive role at Asthma UK. She replaces outgoing chief executive Neil Churchill, who has joined the NHS commissioning board as national director of patient experience. ()

Ketchum has announced Patricia Dessert and Harry King have been promoted as joint heads of the company’s healthcare practice. ()