​Pead PR has appointed Anna Reeve (nee Fitzpatrick) to the role of account manager on its sports & entertainment team. Reeve is ex Proximity Pulse and Red Bull NZ.

DraftFCB has announced the appointment of Keith Pinney as a senior planner, working on the Air New Zealand account as well as across the agency’s portfolio.

​TRN has appointed Laura Maxwell-Hansen as commercial director, leading TRN’s sales division, including agency and direct sales.

Ponsonby-based digital assets management company Adstream has appointed Matt Martin to head its NZ broadcast sales team. Martin has a 21-year career in advertising and television post-production. Most recently, he’s been running his own advertising consultancy, Two Degrees of Separation.

Auckland marketing agency BELOWTHELINE, a big winner at this year’s APMA Star Awards in Sydney, has appointed Sarah Clearwater to its account service team as an account manger. Clearwater is a Kiwi recently returned from a stint overseas. She's previously worked on Frucor, Westpac and Yealands Estate.

Following its purchase of Eye Corp, oOh!media Auckland has appointed Matthew Webb as senior account manager for the Fly (airports) and Study divisions (educational institutions). Webb most recently worked for Living Social as a marketing consultant, and before that he spent five years at Fairfax as a media consultant. oOh! NZ general manager Cameron Taylor [...]

Jennifer Robinson has joined Shout Media as sales director from her role as senior brand manager at Beam Global. “Jen was someone who was well known to me so I knew the high calibre of person I was getting,” said Shout md Paul Kenny.

Consumer consultancy the pr shop has added a new “shopper” to its Auckland office, with the appointment of Lindsay Stanley as senior account manager. Stanley has worked both agency-side and in-house in the UK for the past eight years, over a broad range of sectors including consumer, health, personal care, B2B, and FMCG. Fresh from [...]

Jennifer Pooley has joined Datamine as an Acrobat (aka executive assistant), flying through day-to-day tasks and generally supporting the executive team on new medium and long term initiatives to grow the business. Pooley has a BA in Law and Chinese from the School of Oriental & African Studies in London. Upon graduating she lived in [...]

Strategy Design & Advertising Christchurch has made two senior appointments. Cindy McEwan has been appointed to a managing partner, and Matt Hampton to a creative partner role.

Expat Kiwi Andrew McKechnie has joined DDB New York as group creative director. In this new position, McKechnie will oversee the global Reebok account, where he will be responsible for leading the creative output. He reports directly to Matt Eastwood, chief creative officer of DDB New York.

Digital solutions company Ngage Media has hired Sonia Taylor from Mediacom as its head of media sales. “The move signals Ngage’s push to expand its nationwide, in-store digital signage network, and add some new creative twists,” says director Alan Nicholas.

L’Oréal NZ has promoted Tanya Abbott to the new position of group corporate communications manager. The appointment recognises the growing importance of corporate communications in supporting L’Oréal’s reputation and promoting the role of beauty beyond stereotypes.

Ellerslie-based SME specialist PR agency Purple Sherbet (www.purplesherbet.co.nz) has appointed Alex Little as an account executive. “It’s been a pleasure bringing Alex into the Purple Sherbet team,” says managing director Sarah Davies. “Her fresh outlook and willingness to learn is just what we were looking for.”

Kiwi expat Louise Kuegler has moved within the Ogilvy group to take up the role of managing director of Singapore and regional client services director for Bates CHI&Partners.