Arrivals & Departures

AUCKLAND, Today: Mercury Energy’s chief marketing officer, Julia Jack, will leave the company before the end of April. The statement from Mercury’s comms department announcing her departure did not disclose her replacement.

AUCKLAND, Today: Ad-tech solutions outfit BigAds has announced it’s hired Auckland-based Michael Buhagiar “to spearhead growth in the US & NZ”.

WELLINGTON, Wednesday: Clemenger BBDO has strengthened its leadership team with the hire of Ravi Matharu from as head of strategy, direct from the UK.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Outdoor advertising experts Go Media have appointed Frank Costello as commercial director. Previously, he was operations director at iSite-QMS for 18 years and most recently has been contracting.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Stuff has made two appointments to support aggressive growth in the rural sector. Lee Piper joins as head of rural revenue and Kate Boreham joins as business director – rural.

AUCKLAND, Today: Public relations consultancy Botica Butler Raudon Partners has appointed three new account executives – Jemima Vossen, Francesca Baan, and Henry Wouters will work across BBR’s B2B clients in the technology, energy, health, science, financial services, property, fintech and workplace health and safety sectors.

SYDNEY, January 1: After one year in the role, former Colenso BBDO NZ great Levi Slavin has resigned as chief creative officer of Howatson+Co Australia, turning his back on a 20-year career in the advertising industry – to return to New Zealand to join his family start-up, Ironclad, a cast-iron cookware manufacturer.

HAMILTON, January 1: Waikato-based PR agency HMC has announced the promotion of Rosie Miller to senior account manager – marketing communications lead, and welcomed Jamie Batters into the newly created position of digital pr content creator.

AUCKLAND, January 1: Deloitte Digital Creative New Zealand has announced the appointment of Priyanka Patel as programme director.

HAMILTON, January 1: Waikato-based strategic marketing agency HGB has announced the promotion of two staffers – Mitchell Hyde & Lachlan Blackburn – to new leadership roles, and the appointment of Karen Cousins as a marketing consultant.