Trading places: this week's people moves

By Daniel Farey-Jones, brandrepublic.com, Friday, 04 May 2012 09:30AM

Sly Bailey steps down from newspaper company Trinity Mirror and Cilla Snowball becomes the first female chairman of the Advertising Association, in Brand Republic's round-up of this week's people moves in advertising, marketing and media.

Cilla Snowball: becomes first female chairman of the Advertising Association

Advertising

Blue Hive, WPP's dedicated agency for Ford, has appointed Karin Onsager-Birch as its executive creative director. (Campaign) 

Cilla Snowball, the group chairman and group chief executive of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, has become the first female chairman of the Advertising Association. (Campaign)

Albion London has bolstered its management team with the hiring of Creature Seattle's Hemant Anant Jain as a creative director, and Saatchi & Saatchi's Uma Mantravadi as a planning director. (Campaign)

The Advertising Standards Authority has appointed Roisin Donnelly and Alan Bookbinder to its ASA Council, responsible for adjudicating on complaints about ads. (Campaign)

JWT London has appointed the creative team Bill Hartley and Giles Hepworth. (Campaign)

Lida has appointed Nathan Gainford as managing partner to oversee the agency's new client, O2. (Campaign)

Marketing

Chris Burggraeve, Anheuser-Busch InBev's global chief marketing officer, has left the brewer and has been replaced by Asia-Pacific zone president Miguel Patricio. (Marketing)

Media

Sly Bailey is set to leave her role as CEO of Trinity Mirror at the end of this year after 10 years at the helm of the publisher. (Media Week)

Posterscope, the Aegis Media-owned outdoor media specialist, has appointed Helen Keable to the newly created role of commercial communications director. (Media Week)

Sean Healy, the managing director at Walker Media, has been poached by ZenithOptimedia to become its global planning director. (Campaign)

Neil Jones, the former Carat managing director, is poised to take a full-time role as vice-president of commercial at AOL Advertising Group, following a consultancy stint. (Media Week)

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