On The Move – Weekly Roundup

A recap of who’s headed where in Canadian marketing communications
Extreme Group - Agathe de Saint-Denis

Extreme Group’s senior strategic planner, Agathe De Saint-Denis.

Jackman Reinvention hired RICH COOPER as creative director of brand value creation. Cooper, a longtime freelance copywriter, returns to agency life for the first time since 2003, when he worked as an associate creative director at Lowe Roche.

Groupe V Média appointed LUC DOYON as executive vice-president and chief operating officer, following the company’s acquisition of MusiquePlus. Doyon is responsible for programming, operating, managing, promotion and communications for V, MusiquePlus and MusiMax networks and their digital platforms.

Extreme Group welcomed AGATHE DE SAINT-DENIS as a senior strategic planner to its Halifax-based team. De Saint-Denis has worked as a strategic planner for agencies such as Publicis, Taxi and Ogilvy Action in Montreal. She is a former journalist having worked at the International Herald Tribune and AOL France.

THIBAUT DUVERNEIX joined Montreal production house BLVD (formerly Boogie Studio) as a partner and director. Having previously collaborated with Moment Factory, Place des arts and NBF, Duverneix also co-founded the creative studio DPT and was named to the New York Art Directors Club’s Young Guns list.

RUTH BUDER joined Zomato in Toronto as its marketing manager. The online restaurant discovery service and social network is preparing to launch in Canada. Buder was most recently a public relations associate at Pivotal Labs.

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