Arrivals & Departures

AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Colenso BBDO has appointed Londoner Rob Graves-Morris to the role of senior copywriter on the other side of the world.

AUCKLAND, Friday: Steve Bayliss (formerly of Foodstuffs, Air NZ, Lion Nathan) has been appointed chief marketing officer at Sky TV.

NEW YORK, Thursday: Omnicom Media Group has named Philippa Brown as ceo of PHD Worldwide. Brown, who joins PHD from her role as ceo of Omnicom Media Group UK, succeeds Mike Cooper, who was recently named group ceo of Omnicom Media Group APAC and EMEA.

AUCKLAND, Today: Leading customer intelligence agency Perceptive has appointed Nicholl Oblitas-Costa to the role of research consultant.

SYDNEY, Friday: Pete Bosilkovski, the Sydney-based joint chief executive of merged agency VMLY&R for Australia and New Zealand, has resigned from his post after just seven months.

AUCKLAND, Today: Rob Bree – widely known as The Marketing Guy – has left the freewheeling lifestyle that came with 15 years of marketing and strategy consulting to join business performance improvement consultancy Prime Strategies Group.

AUCKLAND, Today: Leading customer intelligence agency Perceptive has appointed Sangeeta Kaydan to the role of senior software developer in NZ.

AUCKLAND, Today: Senior comms professionals Richard Gordon and Tim Marshall have joined PR consultancy Wright Communications (“the first specialist agency in sustainability communications”).

AUCKLAND, Friday: MediaWorks has appointed Barry Sadlier to the role of chief financial officer, effective immediately. Sadlier joined MediaWorks in 2017 as group financial controller and has been acting CFO since January.