Arrivals & Departures

The Public Relations Institute has appointed Elaine Koller as its new ceo, replacing Simone Bell, who has stood down after four years in the role.

Parnell strategic & creative marketing communications shop The Business has hired Greg Antoine as account director. He was previously an AD at Ogilvy & Mather where he managed the Pernod Ricard New Zealand and Pizza Hut accounts.

Award-winning investigative journalism trio Paula Penfold, Eugene Bingham and Toby Longbottom joined Fairfax Media yesterday.

Newshub head of news Mark Jennings is “moving on” from MediaWorks after 25 years heading the 3News team. He will be replaced by NineMSN editor Hal Crawford – an Aussie whose 21 years in journalism is almost entirely in online news services (apart from three years at West Australian Newspapers at the start of his career in the ’90s).

Richard Thompson has been appointed ceo of the Kiwi Premium Advertising Exchange (KPEX), a local advertising exchange service established last year in joint partnership by Fairfax Media, MediaWorks, NZME and TVNZ.

NZME has announced the appointment of five newly created specialist account director roles in Auckland. 

Comedy performance director Florence Noble has joined 8 (the Transtasman production company previously known as 8com).

The Warriors league team has appointed well-known local PR personality Niki Schuck to its board of directors – only the second female board member in the history of the club.

Colenso BBDO creative assistant Aisling Lithgow – the first point of contact at the agency for journos like M+AD – has moved to the UK in search of new opportunities.

Adshel has appointed Ashlee Walsh as account manager, responsible for working with advertisers and media agencies on delivering creative and innovative campaigns across Adshel’s network of digital screens and static roadside panels.