Accounts and People of Note in the Advertising Industry
The Ad Club, Boston, is observing its 100th anniversary with, among other things, a dinner-dance that will include a fireworks display, scheduled for Wednesday, and a television program, “The Ad Club: Boston’s Legends of Advertising,†to be broadcast by two Boston stations, WBZ and WSBK.
Nancy Cohen joined Up, Atlanta, formerly GMC TV, in a new post, senior vice president for ad sales, based in the New York office. She had been director for women at NBCUniversal Sales, part of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast.
Randie Dalia, associate group publisher at the Palm Beach Media Group, West Palm Beach, Fla., was named publisher of Palm Beach Illustrated. She succeeds the late Ronald J. Woods, who was also the owner of the Palm Beach Media Group.
Nathan Daschle joined Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, part of CC Media Holdings, in a new post, executive vice president for political strategy, based in Washington; he and a team he will oversee will be focused on working with political advertisers, issue advertisers and advertising agencies to develop customized campaigns. Mr. Daschle, whose father is the well-known Democrat Thomas A. Daschle, had been chief executive at Ruck.us, a company he founded, and before that was executive director of the Democratic Governors Association.
Peter Drakoulias, who joined DraftFCB as global chief of staff in November 2011, based in the agency’s New York office, is leaving after the departure of the chief executive for whom he worked, Laurence Boschetto, who is being replaced by Carter Murray. Mr. Boschetto is now a senior adviser to the DraftFCB parent, the Interpublic Group of Companies.
Jason Elm joined DDB California, San Francisco â€" part of the DDB North America unit of DDB Worldwide, a division of the Omnicom Group â€" as chief creative officer. He succeeds Lisa Bennett, who is now executive vice president for creative at DDB North America. Mr. Elm had been executive vice president and group creative director at Deutsch L.A., which is the Marina del Rey, Calif., office of Deutsch, part of the Lowe & Partners unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies.
Henry Engleka joined Porter Novelli, New York, part of the Omnicom Group, in a new post, as a senior vice president in the global health and wellness practice. He had been chief executive at the P4 Strategy Group, New York.
Joanne Forster joined Bolt Public Relations, Irvine, Calif., a division of Bolt Enterprises, in a new post, general manager and public relations director of the Irvine office. She had been running her own boutique agency, the Forster Group.
Jason Gingold rejoined Creature, Seattle, in a new post, director for strategy. He had been a senior brand strategist at the New York office of Wieden & Kennedy.
Patrick Glorieux, a copywriter, and Cecilia Azcarate Isturiz, an art director, who serve together as a creative team, joined Johannes Leonardo, New York, part of WPP. The pair had previously worked as a creative team at Happiness Brussels, where Mr. Glorieux was a copywriter and concept provider and Ms. Isturiz was the head of art.
Michael Greve joined the New York office of We Are Social in a new post, senior analyst. He had been consumer insights and strategy supervisor at J. D. Power & Associates.
Emmanuel Lallevé and Florent Imbert, a creative team, will join JWT New York, part of the JWT division of WPP, as executive creative directors. Their arrival, in August, will bring the total number of executive creative directors at JWT New York to seven. Mr. Lallevé and Mr. Imbert had been executive creative directors, serving as a team, at Marcel Worldwide, Paris, part of the Publicis Groupe.
Wolfgang Maasberg joined Turn, Redwood City, Calif., in a new global post, senior vice president for sales and field operations. He had previously held posts that included chief executive of Lyris and senior vice president for sales at Omniture, now part of Adobe Systems.
