Wieden + Kennedy adds Smith, Skinner + Primachenko

Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam has recently made three additions to its creative roster. The agency will soon gain copywriter David Smith, creative technologist Paul Skinner [pictured] and copywriter Evgeny Primachenko.

David Smith will return to W+K Amsterdam after working in Sydney as creative director at The Jamboree for the past two years. Most recently, Smith wrote and directed a travel/reality show narrated by Rhys Darby, aka Murray from Flight of the Conchords.

Paul Skinner spent two years at Digit London where he co-ran the R&D department and worked on projects for Marks and Spencer, Shell, The Eden Project, MSN and Bing. Most recently, he led a team of up to eight technologists at W+K London and worked with Nike, Nokia, Honda, Fairtrade, Nestea, The Guardian and Lurpak.

Evgeny Primachenko was born in Russia and became a copywriter at the local Russian agency Voskhod when he was 17. From 2006 to 2010, Evgeny brought the agency's Russian creativity rating from #56 to #1. Over these years, he worked with brands such as Beeline, Megafon, Euroset, Forex club and Rehau.