Industry highlights and people moves
Signings at Partizan, Euro RSCG, TBWA Toronto, Outsider, Chelsea and more...
Matt Keon and Oliver Green joined Banks Hoggins O'Shea FCB, London, as a senior creative team. They formerly ran their own agency, If Your Mind Was A Room, in Sydney, Australia.
http://www.fcb.com
International Partizan signed directing duo Ramon & Pedro. Previously unsigned, the pair directed the 2003 AICP show opens.
http://www.partizan.com
Euro RSCG London appointed Ben Langdon, former partner at startup Ben Mark Orlando, as chairman.
http://www.eurorscg.com
TBWA, Toronto, named Simon Creet and Simon Duffy creative directors. They were formerly ACDs.
http://www.tbwachiatday.com
Outsider, London, signed directors James Rouse and Henry Littlechild. Rouse won Gold at last week's BTAA awards for The Viral Factory's Trojan Condoms viral spots, while Littlechild scored Silver for Ford Sportka's controversial "Bird", also a viral ad.
http://www.outsider.tv
Chelsea Pictures, NY, signed commercial/music video director Charles Mehling, and doc director Kevin McDonald.
http://www.chelsea.com
NY's Click 3x welcomed freelance flame artist Toni DiMauro to its ranks.
http://www.click3x.com
Santa Monica-based Gartner signed directing team Chris Riess/Amy Hill, formerly with bicoastal Anonymous Content. Their first job is a campaign for BP through Ogilvy.
http://www.gartner.tv
Burbank, CA-based production house Moo Studios signed Peter McCann of M1 Management for East Coast representation.
http://www.moostudios.com
Boston-based broadcast arts, visual effects and finishing studio Pisces has named Jimi Simmons director of visual effects, and Chris Goveia creative director of the company's new broadcast arts division. Shari Sklar-Jacobson is now director of marketing.
http://www.pisces.net
Chicago- and Seattle-based Digital Kitchen signed with Quad Productions, London, for European representation.
http://www.d-kitchen.com
Hollywood's Troika Design Group added Gil Haslam to its creative team. Formerly with Novocom, Haslam had already been freelancing for Troika.
http://www.troika.tv
Albuquerque, NM-based agency McKee Wallwork Henderson Advertising Production promoted artist Elias Martinez to art director.
http://www.growingfast.com
NY agency CO-OP signed former Crossroads Television managing director Stephen Axthelm and his company, Axcess Media, to its CO-OP network of affiliated companies.
Denver agency PGM hired creative director Terry Hackett, formerly of Xpanshen Marketing Communications in Colorado Springs, Colo.
London's BlueYed Pictures signed director Gavin Bowden for European spot representation. He continues to be repped in the U.S. by LA-based A Band Apart.
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