Arrivals & Departures

Y&R NZ has appointed James Johnston to the newly created role of client services director effective immediately.

NZME Radio has promoted NZME Radio general manager Dallas Gurney to a new role at group level, GM of group content marketing, focussed on growing commercial branded content, white-labelled content solutions, PR and communications services for clients. He will continue to be based in Auckland.

MediaWorks has snared Mike Berry for the role of Wellington-based radio sales manager, effective Monday 17 August. Berry joins from The Radio Bureau, where he’d been Wellington sales manager since 1992.

Nielsen New Zealand marketing & communications manager Kim McFadden has taken six months’ extended leave. Even as you read this, she’s on the plane bound for Central America.

Former Eleven PR managing director Lauren Vosper, who left the TBWA NZ fold in July last year, has been appointed global PR manager at merino clothing chain Icebreaker.

Sydney-based APAC-wide mobile marketing agency Big Mobile Group has appointed co-founder Graham Christie to the additional role of group ceo.

Spark Home, Mobile and Business has appointed Clive Ormerod as its new general manager marketing.

Commonwealth//McCann, a division of McCann Worldgroup, has hired Ogilvy & Mather Vietnam CCO and Kiwi expat Todd McCracken as regional executive creative director for Commonwealth//McCann’s Asia Pacific operations, according to a report in Campaign Brief Australia.

MediaWorks has appointed Charlotte McLauchlan as group head of communications: In this role, McLauchlan will oversee external communications, corporate affairs and internal communications for the group, which includes TV3, FOUR and The Edge TV; radio brands The Edge, The Rock, More FM, The Breeze, The Sound, Mai FM, George FM, Magic, and RadioLIVE; a network of websites including 3news.co.nz and 3NOW, and a family of mobile and tablet apps.

Christie Tanner returns to Adshel Auckland sales team: Tanner has re-joined the company as senior account manager.