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Communications Media Buys Singularity Design; to Hire Soon

Communications Media has paid an undisclosed amount to acquire interactive advertising agency Singularity Design. Jeff Greenhouse, Singularity’s founder, will continue to run the firm from its Philadelphia offices. Singularity was launched last year, and employs nine people. Greenhouse expects to be hiring soon. Communications Media provides media planning services, primarily to the pharmaceutical and health-care industries. It [...]

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Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness Hires Russell as Director of Client Services

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has brought on Ned Russell as Executive Vice President, Director of Client Services, a new position. Russell joins from Las Vegas Sands Corporation, where he was Vice President of Brand Marketing, and oversaw marketing for the world’s largest five-diamond resort, with over $3 billion in annual sales and 9,000 employees. Previously, he [...]

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Wieden+Kennedy to Hire for ‘Think Tank’

Wieden + Kennedy, London will open a new unit called Platform, which will act as a think tank to help clients with creative work not related to advertising or marketing. The new unit seeks to hire computer programmers, fashion designers, engineers, anthropologists, artists and others. Platform, which launches in September, already had two unnamed clients. It [...]

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Euro RSCG Brings on Cahill as Global Brand Director

Euro RSCG has hired on Coleen Cahill as global brand director for the Charles Schwab account. Cahill joins from Merkley + Partners, New York, where she was Brand Equity Director. She replaces Fred Saunders, who left for personal reasons. New York City’s Euro RSCG Worldwide provides advertising, marketing services, corporate communications, and interactive solutions to global, regional, [...]

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Beattie McGuinness Brings on Powell for New York Office

The UK’s Beattie McGuinness Bungay is bringing on Neil Powell, former chief creative officer of Margeottes Fertitta Powell, to head its new New York office as a stakeholder. A graphic designer, Powell was most recently head of We Are Gigantic, a merger of Margeotes Fertitta Powell and Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners. He ran his own boutique [...]

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Baldwin& Taps Bodrie for “Superconductor”

Durham, North Carolina’s Baldwin& is bringing on Jerry Bodrie from GSD&M Austin. Bodrie’s title will apparently be “superconductor,” which is supposed to be a clever neologism for “top executive on the account side.” (By “neologism” I don’t mean Merriam Webster’s first definition, “a new word, usage, or expression.” I mean the second definition, “a meaningless word [...]

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Mullen Hires Leikikh as Managing Partner

Mullen has brought on Alex Leikikh, formerly a group account director at Fallon, as managing partner, director of account service. The position was created for Leikikh, who becomes the tenth member of Mullen’s executive committee. At Minneapolis’ Fallon, Leikikh worked on United Airlines and BMW. Just a week ago, Mullen moved its headquarters from an historic manor house [...]

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TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles Hires 6

TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles has promoted Rob Schwartz to Chief Creative Officer, In addition, Fallon Worldwide’s Al Kelly has been hired as, and Patrick O’Neill has been promoted to, Co-Executive Creative Director. Kelly joins was Executive Creative Director for Fallon in Minneapolis. He will primarily work on the Pepsi account. O’Neill will continue to oversee the Agency’s [...]

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