Theo Izzard-Brown, the CSO at McCann London, will transfer to Dentsu Artistic UK subsequent summer time to take up the identical function.
He’ll be part of Jessica Tamsedge, who additionally lately introduced a transfer from McCann to Dentsu, the place she can be UK CEO. At Dentsu, Izzard-Brown will work on shoppers together with Heinz, DAZN, Waitrose, The Co-operative Financial institution, Vodafone, Kellogg’s, Halfords and Generali.
Dentsu Artistic UK has been in search of a brand new CSO for some time. Within the interim, the function has been crammed by Patricia McDonald, the company’s international head of technique. She’s going to proceed to supervise UK technique till Izzard-Brown arrives in June.
Izzard-Brown stated: “This function presents a novel alternative to think about the type of a enterprise Dentsu Artistic can and ought to be for the UK market. With its deep bench of cross-disciplinary experience all underneath one roof, my intestine tells me Dentsu Artistic holds the successful hand.”
In addition to technique, Izzard-Brown is thought for his pitch-winning skills. At McCann he was instrumental in bringing many new shoppers on board, together with Reckitt, Pernod Ricard’s Chivas and Gin portfolio, and Simply Eat. He was beforehand at Wieden + Kennedy London.
McCann, in the meantime, can also be constructing a brand new administration crew. Jemima Monies lately moved from adam&eveDDB to develop into COO, whereas earlier this yr Polly McMorrow joined as CEO from BBH and Nusara Chinnaphasaen joined from W+Ok as head of technique.
