Lauren McNamara

6 days ago | mumbrella.com.au | Lauren McNamara

Earlier this week, pizza oven brand Gozney released a global campaign featuring its long-term brand ambassador, celebrity chef and media personality Matty Matherson, for the first time. The brand’s CMO, Jonathan Kantor, says it’s already become its biggest campaign to date. The spoof infomercial features Matherson front and centre, characterised as an absurd and over-the-top spokesperson, blatantly hawking over Gozney’s pizza ovens.

6 days ago | mumbrella.com.au | Lauren McNamara

Former Dentsu Creative ECD Sarah McGregor has joined AKQA Australia, replacing the role left vacant by Tim Devine last month. Joining as the agency’s new executive creative director, she will help lead its creative output locally, aiming to reinforce its position in the market. She will work closely with the senior leadership team, including fellow ECD Tara McKenty, CSO Iona Macgregor, ESD Nicole Armstrong, Sydney general manager Justine Leong, and managing director Jeremy Smart.

6 days ago | mumbrella.com.au | Lauren McNamara

After three-and-a-half years at Droga5 NZ, senior strategist Craig McLeod has relocated to Sydney to join The General Store as its new strategy director. McLeod joins The General Store as it continues taking on more work both locally and overseas. It has recently delivered projects in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Greece, with its capabilities “proving to be effective” across these regions.

6 days ago | mumbrella.com.au | Lauren McNamara

DDB Group Sydney has nabbed Howatson and Company’s former head of design, Caroline Gilroy. Gilroy joins the agency with over 20 years of brand and advertising design experience. She has held senior design roles at agencies across Sydney, Melbourne, London, and New York, including at M+C Saatchi’s Re, Droga5, South South West, and Studio Round. She also has extensive freelancing experience, having been engaged by Mother, BMF, Houston Group, Karmarama, Grey Group, and more.

6 days ago | mumbrella.com.au | Lauren McNamara

In Dynamic Duos, Mumbrella each week asks two colleagues with a professional and personal affiliation to share with readers the importance of workplace relationships in an increasingly hybridised world of work. Kate Fuller:I met Will in 1983, two days after Christmas, on a hot summer’s evening in Kadina, country-South Australia. I was just a few hours old, and he was besotted. Or so I tell myself.