Arrivals & Departures

iProspect New Zealand has made two key senior hires, welcoming Nicola Yates as head of paid media and Falk Werner to its downtown Auckland home as digital performance director.

FCB has announced the promotion of Jane Wardlaw to the position of head of account management, replacing Matt Scott. Wardlaw, who has worked at the agency for over 15 years, most recently held the title of group account director for Mitre 10.

NZME’s commercial creative solutions hub CreateMe and its agency sales team have welcomed new team members into key leadership roles.

FCB nine-year veteran Matt Scott has resigned to join Assignment Group as managing partner of its Auckland office. At FCB, Scott joins head of planning Matt Kingston, who left Special Group for Assignment earlier this year. 

Two well-known ASB executives have handed in their cards – ceo Barbara Chapman will leave early next year, while the bank’s marketing comms GM Roger Beaumont departs next month.

NZ-born publicist Rachel Howard is joining TVNZ as corporate communications manager. Howard has been based in London as a BBC publicist for the past year; before that she was Warner Bros Europe publicist, working out of London.

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne has enlisted DDB New Zealand creative Nicole Sykes and installed her as creative director across the Ditch.

oOh!media Limited (ASX:OML) today announced the appointment of its new chair and an additional independent non-executive director to support the company in delivering on its growth strategy in NZ and Australia.

DDB group business director Scott Wallace is to depart DDB after 17 years to seek new fields of endeavour – with a focus on the nurturing of new brands.

NZME has made changes to the structure of its agency team, after head of agency Matt Headland took up the chief commercial officer role.