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Advertising

Bo Hellberg, the executive creative director at Paris-based agency Megalo & Company, has been appointed executive creative director of Brave and its sister agency Billington Cartmell. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Greg Delaney, the chairman of DLKW Lowe, is leaving the agency after 37 years service. He will leave the agency at the end of the year but will be retained on a consultancy basis by Lowe for a short period. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Droga5 Europe has added Tamsin Davies, a strategist from the Nike Foundation, to its burgeoning line up in London. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Publicis Groupe has appointed Arthur Sadoun, its managing director, as the chief executive of its Publicis Worldwide network. He will report to Maurice Lévy, the chairman and chief executive of Publicis Groupe, and will join the P-12 executive committee. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Mcgarrybowen London has hired Rick Hirst, the Engine Group's client managing director, as its chief executive. He replaces Jim Kelly who left the agency in December. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

SapientNitro has appointed Neil Dawson, a founder and planning partner at Enter and a former chairman of TBWA, as its vice-president and chief strategy officer for Europe. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Spencer Livermore, a former senior strategist at SSF Group, will rejoin the Labour Party as its campaign director by the end of the year. He will be responsible for Labour’s recruitment of an agency and will oversee its work. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Steve Parker and Pippa Glucklich have both been pro­moted to the new role of co-chief executive of Starcom MediaVest Group UK. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

VCCP has promoted two of its staff, naming Lauren Ince as the head of account management and Louisa Tapper as its first head of talent. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Engine has hired Grey London's managing partner, Annie Gallimore, to look after the group's Government relationships. The role was created after the group won a place on the Government’s creative and PR rosters. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Chris Whitson is to leave VCCP me. Whitson co-founded the company formerly known as Stephens Francis Whitson (SFW) in 2005 alongside his colleagues Ben Stephens and Neil Francis. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

Marketing

Boots is promoting its UK marketing director Elizabeth Fagan to marketing director of international and brands in the health and beauty division. The promotion is part of an internal management reshuffle following the departure of health and beauty chief executive Andy Gourlay. ()

The Post Office has appointed Martin George, Bupa's former top marketer, to the position of chief marketing and commercial officer. ()

Microchip manufacturer Qualcomm has appointed former Samsung corporate marketing director Andrew Garrihy to act as its European vice president of marketing. ()

Media

The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) has appointed Nigel Sharrocks as non-executive chairman, succeeding Nigel Walmsley who is stepping down after 11 years. (±±¾©Èü³µpk10)

IPC Southbank has appointed Rich Sutcliffe, the digital development director at Haymarket Business Media, to the same role. He will begin his new position on 6 January 2014 and will have responsibility for developing the digital proposition of the IPC Media division, which includes Marie Claire, Ideal Home and Wallpaper. ()

PR

Pearson has hired Kate James as chief corporate affairs officer. She joins the education and publishing company in January. ()

David Cameron's director of strategy Andrew Cooper has left Number 10. He will return to the company he founded, Populus, after a two-year leave of absence working for David Cameron. ()

MHP has handed Pete Digger a new role spanning the agency's public affairs, corporate and health work. ()

Oil and gas production and power generation company Centrica Energy has appointed Corin Taylor, a senior economic adviser at the Institute of Directors (IoD), as head of communications research. ()

FleishmanHillard has appointed Sophie Scott to lead its technology team following the departure of Tom Berry. Scott takes the role after ten years in the agency’s technology team and has worked for clients including AT&T, TCS and Autodesk. ()