Antonio Lucio, global chief marketing and communications officer at tech giant HP Inc., is leaving for the same role at Facebook, the company confirmed today. Lucio will report to Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox and start on September 4. “[Antonio] has an extraordinary reputation in the industry as a leader, a marketer, an operator,… ..
Tag : Leadership & Talent
Pete Blackshaw is leaving Nestl? after nearly 8 years as one of the CPG company’s top marketing executives. Today, Cincinnati-based Cintrifuse announced that Blackshaw will become its new CEO. According to the company’s statement, Blackshaw will help make the group “the No. 1 startup and entrepreneurial hub in the Midwest.” Cintrifuse is a 6-year old… ..
Accenture Interactive, the digital wing of the larger international consulting group, looks to expand its presence in the Nordic region by hiring a new chief creative officer. According to the attendant statement, Accenture aims to more actively seek out new business in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Adam Kerj joins the company after serving as… ..
Experiential marketing agency George P. Johnson (GPJ) announced the hiring of Marcos Ribeiro as vice president, global executive creative director for the IBM account, as he can provide expertise on the tech company he previously spent a decade overseeing at Ogilvy. The Project Worldwide-owned agency has worked with IBM for 20 years. Ribeiro was a… ..
For Andrew McKechnie, the journey from joining global agency FCB as a copywriter in January 2001 to becoming svp and CCO of Verizon in February 2017 was a steady climb. “I worked up the ranks in a fairly traditional manner: building my creative portfolio, doing good work, winning awards, winning accounts, winning large global accounts,”… ..
Havas North America is a little different, and the privately owned network doesn’t do things quite like all the other ad agencies you know. At least that’s what co-chairman and chief creative officer Jason Peterson says–and he makes no apologies for his own at-times-controversial style. In recent days, a video distributed internally to the network’s… ..
Mark Penn’s Stagwell Group, a portfolio of self-described digital-centric marketing and research companies, announced today the completion of a $260 million capital raise from investment funds managed by global private equity firm AlpInvest Partners. “The marketing landscape is in the midst of a dramatic transformation, and we are excited to have AlpInvest support our mission… ..
Two years ago, Maria Arenas had just graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (where she earned a BFA in graphic design and worked in the school’s print labs). She sent her resum? to “over 50 places” before she was hired as a graphic designer for New York design agency Tandem in September 2016. At… ..
While “purpose driven” might not be what first comes to mind when thinking of an agency with venture capitalist connections, Scout Lab has spent the first year of its life developing processes that replace traditional agency thinking with product development strategies. After spending years on the marketing teams at brands including Levi’s and Airbnb, co-founders… ..
Under Armour has parted ways with Adrienne Lofton, svp, global brand management, a spokesperson confirmed today. She was the organization’s most senior marketing executive. The apparel company reportedly announced the news in a memo that went out to all staff this morning. The reasons for Lofton’s departure are unclear at this time, though one party… ..
