A recap of who’s headed where in Canadian marketing and communications.
TBWA\Toronto added 10 new members to its creative team. They are: associate creative directors JONATHAN SMITH, DON EMBREE and BART SMITH, art directors JASON LEE and DAN BACHE, senior copywriter MICHELLE SPIVAK, copywriters MATT WILLIAMSON and FRANCESCO GRANDI and designers KELLY FERGUSON and GUI BERMEJO. Aside from Bermejo, who had been an intern at TBWA, all of the recent additions came from other agencies, including Taxi 2, The Hive and Leo Burnett.
ANNE FORTIN, vice-president and managing director at the Montreal office of Draftfcb Canada, left her position after 18 years at the agency to become vice-president of marketing for GP Car and Home and Belairdirect. JEAN-FRANCOIS GIGUERE replaces her.
MARC GIGUERE joined Montreal-based V as vice-president of sales and chief of commercial operations. Giguère was previously executive vice-president and chief operating officer for indoor advertising at Newad. Prior to that, he was vice-president of sales, marketing and operations at RNC Media.
Toronto Life magazine appointed CHRISTINE DEWAIRY to art director, effective July 11. She was previously art director at Maclean’s, Canadian Business, MoneySense and Profit, and also worked at the Saturday Post, Saturday Post Fashion and Saturday Night.
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) appointed SKY BRIDGES to chief operating officer, effective immediately. Bridges will oversee daily operations out of the network’s Winnipeg office.
JOANNE MACDONALD was named vice-president, news and general manager of CTV-owned CP24. In her new role McaDonald will oversee day-to-day operations of the news channel. MacDonald has held positions at PrideVision, CBC and APTN.
