Moves this week at JWT, Euro RSCG Fuel, Newhouse, Soixan7e Quin5e, BSUR and Chelsea Digital
JWT London CEO Simon Bolton is to leave his post. Bolton is expected to find a new post elsewhere within the company, but as yet no-one has been appointed to take over from him. Bolton started out at Ogilvy & Mather, before moving to FCB Malaysia and then FCB San Francisco before becoming chief executive of JWT in 2001. In other JWT news, Lisa Cooper has been appointed head of production after Nigel Foster stepped down in the summer due to ill health. Senior producers Clare Donald and Sarah Patterson are also promoted to joint deputy heads of TV.
Euro RSCG Fuel Worldwide has signed multi-award winning creatives Chris Aldhous and Peter Hodgson to work on the London agency’s Volvo account. The pair started out at McCann moving, to Publicis in 1999 and have worked on a number of high profile accounts including Coca-Cola, L'Oreal, Ericsson and, most significantly, HYPE for Hewlett Packard while at Publicis that scooped them two Golds at Cannes in 2004 and got them promoted to worldwide creative director level.
Newhouse films, a division of bi-coastal Crossroads Films has signed director Steven Ramser. Ramser joins the company from Partizan. His most recent work was a campaign for Becks for Leo Burnett, Chicago.
Soixan7e Quin7e in Paris has signed director Garson Yu who owns design and visual effect company Yu & Co for commercials representation. Yu has worked on previews, trailers and titles for Desperate Housewives, Saving Private Ryan and Mission Impossible 2 among others. Yu & Co has recently completed a spot for Orange that aired last week.
Amsterdam-based agency BSUR has appointed Dieuwke Reehoorn as creative director. Reehoorn will work with Joost Perik who takes on the role of chief creative officer. Reehoorn spent eight years with BSUR as a copywriter after beginning her career with Ogilvy & Mather and TBWA, both in Amsterdam, also as a copywriter.
Chelsea Digital has appointed former commercial producer Anthony Nelson to the position of executive producer. Nelson was formerly in charge of Content Development & Acquisitions for Corbis's motion division.
