Movers and Groovers
George Dymond, who joined Morrisons at the beginning of the month and was expected to lead its new online grocery service, has unexpectedly resigned.
Operations director Dymond was hired last autumn from Coles supermarkets in Australia, where he was group general manager of merchandise. Prior to that he was trading director at Carphone Warehouse.
The Financial Times reports that the resignation centres on a disagreement on the nature of the role, and that Morrisons had been in talks with Dymond about an alternative position. Read On
Moneysupermarket.com has confirmed that marketing director, Kenny Jacobs is to leave the company.
He has a new role to go to, but this hasn’t yet been announced. Jacobs only joined the Chester-based firm in December 2012, but during that time oversaw a major upheaval in its senior marketing team. Read On
Poett, who has been with Tribal Worldwide, London since August 2012, takes up his new position with immediate effect, reporting to Managing Director Tom Roberts, and overseeing a creative department of twenty.
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Billington Cartmell Group has today announced that Simon Marshall will be joining as Chief Executive Officer, taking over from John Gellett.
Simon has over 20 years of experience under his belt having been Chief Executive of Publicis Dialog in the UK, Director at OgilvyOne and most recently Managing Director of The Marketing Store North America.
There, Simon was responsible for operations in both the US and Canada representing a diverse group of clients including McDonald’s, Nissan, Shell, Coca-Cola North America and General Mills amongst others. Simon’s other UK and international client experience includes American Express, British Airways, General Motors, Zurich Financial Services and Renault.
Nokia has elevated the role of its head of brand and campaigns Adam Johnson to become head of consumer marketing for the UK division of the Finnish mobile company.
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Carat has appointed Mark Brennan to head of mobile from his role as emerging platforms director at MEC.
GroupM has made Chris Copeland, formerly head of GroupM Search, chief executive of new innovation unit GroupM Next. Cary Tilds, currently leader of digital media operations at GroupM-owned Mindshare North America, takes up the post of chief innovation officer. [more…]
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