Advertising
Kevin Dundas, the chief executive of Droga5 Europe, has left the agency 18 months after it was launched. ()
Mindshare has hired Somo's Neil Bruce as head of mobile, replacing James Chandler, who recently moved into a newly created role as global mobile director for Mindshare. ()
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has appointed Gerard Crichlow, the director of social media at Droga5 New York, to the new position of director of social and cultural innovation. ()
IProspect has appointed Britt Soeder as head of owned media in the UK. Soeder joins from Greenlight and will be responsible for leading iProspect's natural search team. ()
Naked Communications has appointed Cyrus Vantoch-Wood, a creative director at Cheil London, to develop and lead its UK creative team. ()
Saatchi & Saatchi London has expanded its creative department with seven hires. James Ross-Edwards from Whybin\TBWA in Sydney takes up the role of copywriter, while Ben Robinson and Mike Whiteside are joining as a creative team from WCRS. Also joining as a copywriter is TBWA\Barcelona’s Victor Morón. He will be paired with Jose Hernandez, who moves from Lowe and Partners’ Madrid agency, Lola. Matt Butterfield and Ben Mills will start as a junior creative team shortly. They graduated from the West Herts College advertising course this year. ()
Marketing
AB InBev has appointed Coca-Cola marketer Nick Robinson to the role of marketing director for its UK and Ireland business. ()
Johnson & Johnson has appointed former P&G marketer Yana Ignatova as head of marketing for Northern Europe, amid a raft of senior management changes at P&G. ()
Coca-Cola CMO Joe Tripodi is set to retire from the company to be replaced by senior Coke executive Marcos De Quinto. ()
Media
Johnston Press has appointed the BBC marketer Terry McGrath to the newly created role of senior director of brand and product marketing. ()
Mail Online has appointed Clare Rush, the managing partner of commercials and joint head of investment at MEC, as its deputy chief revenue officer at Mail Online UK and rest of the world. ()
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