The Ad Council, a nonprofit organization known for public service campaigns like Smokey Bear and gun safety initiatives, has elected 17 new members to its board of directors. Tara Walpert Levy, vice president of YouTube Americas, continues to serve as the board’s chair, while Carla Hassan, chief marketing officer at JPMorganChase, has been elevated to ..
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Snap has appointed Grace Kao as its new chief marketing officer. She is being promoted after serving for less than six months as the company’s vice president of consumer and business marketing. She will take the place of chief creative officer Colleen DeCourcy, who joined Snap in May 2022. DeCourcy will stay on as an ..
Zoom has hired Kimberly Storin as its new chief marketing officer (CMO). The exec joins from Zayo Group, a communications and bandwidth infrastructure provider, where she served as CMO since 2021. Before that, she was marketing chief at software company RapidDeploy and held several marketing leadership roles at IBM, AMD, and Dell. At Zoom, Storin ..
Chief marketing officer (CMO) Heidi Cooley is leaving Crocs to join Lovesac as its first chief brand and marketing officer, effective April 23. Cooley had been CMO of Crocs since 2021. She’s held several senior marketing roles in her nearly 9 years at the footwear brand, helping it forge a lane in culture while driving ..
U.S.-based TikTok ecommerce global governance and experience team staffers were recently laid off. This is the latest restructuring to afflict the social media company, which underwent a round of layoffs affecting its trust and security team in February. According to Business Insider, the global governance and experience team monitors product listings, seller compliance, and protecting ..
McCann New York is eliminating its top creative and growth roles as part of a restructure that will place oversight under regional North America leadership, according to an internal memo sent to staff Monday and obtained by ADWEEK. As a result, chief creative officer Shayne Millington and head of growth Suresh Raj will depart the ..
Jamie Siminoff will once again oversee Ring as Amazon named him vice president of product for its home security business. Siminoff, who founded Ring, returns to its parent company after a two-year hiatus. In this new role, his portfolio expands beyond Ring, as he will be in charge of Amazon’s Blink smart home camera unit, ..
The National Basketball Association’s chief diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officer Lesley Slaton Brown is stepping down from her role, according to an internal email obtained by ADWEEK. Per an email sent April 2 to all NBA staff, Brown informed the league that she plans to leave the post and relocate back to the West ..
McCann Worldgroup executive creative director (ECD) Ioana Filip is leaving to launch her own creative agency called International Waters, ADWEEK has learned. The exec has spent nearly 20 years at global advertising agencies such as McCann, MRM, and Energy BBDO, working as an ECD in markets including Chicago, London, and now her hometown of Bucharest, ..
PepsiCo has appointed Mark Kirkham as chief marketing officer of PepsiCo Beverages North America, the company confirmed to ADWEEK. He succeeds Greg Lyons, who served as the division’s CMO since January 2017. According to PepsiCo, Lyons is leaving to pursue an external opportunity, though his next job has not been disclosed. Kirkham most recently served ..
