Sara Bamossy and Marisstella Marinkovic have been named co-CEOs of Culver City-based Pitch, part of the indie agency network Project Worldwide. Bamossy and Marinkovic are being reunited at Pitch after previously partnering together for seven years at Saatchi & Saatchi as a team producing work recognized by Cannes Lions, Effies, and Jay Chiat Awards.
Bamossy has been with Pitch since 2014 when she arrived as chief strategy officer. Marinkovic is joining the agency from INNOCEAN USA where she served as SVP, managing director since 2013.
Bamossy’s strategic background has transformed the way Pitch does business, driving the agency’s philosophy, “Return on Creativity.” Since joining, she has led strategy across all accounts, including current clients Westfield, Roche, Microsoft,
Burger King, and Public Storage.
During Marinkovic’s tenure at INNOCEAN USA, she led Hyundai to significant increases in brand affinity and brand demand across national, digital, and retail efforts. Highlights of her work include beating out
fan-favorite brands like Doritos to be ranked #1 on USA Today’s Ad Meter for Super Bowl L, increasing Hyundai’s social engagement, and revitalizing its dealer association program.
Pitch announces the appointment of Bamossy and Marinkovic almost halfway through its 10th year in business. Founded in 2008 by Jon Banks, Pitch passed the CEO title on to Rachel Spiegelman at the beginning of 2017. Spiegelman left earlier this year to pursue other opportunities, but the agency has continued to grow under the leadership of an executive strategic and creative team. Bamossy and Marinkovic as co-CEOs will make the agency’s operations more efficient as Pitch continues to expand its client base and build out its capabilities.
Pitch serves as a strategic and creative agency for clients including Westfield, Roche, Burger King, Tim Hortons, Microsoft, Konami, Public Storage, Quicken, and San Manuel Casino.
James Earl Jones, Lauded Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies At 93
James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, "The Lion King" and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home in New York's Hudson Valley region. The cause was not immediately clear.
The pioneering Jones, who was one of the first African American actors in a continuing role on a daytime drama and worked deep into his 80s, won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor.
He cut an elegant figure late in life, with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious work habit. In 2015, he arrived at rehearsals for a Broadway run of "The Gin Game" having already memorized the play and with notebooks filled with comments from the creative team. He said he was always in service of the work.
"The need to storytell has always been with us," he told The Associated Press then. "I think it first happened around campfires when the man came home and told his family he got the bear, the bear didn't get him."
Jones created such memorable film roles as the reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in "Field of Dreams," the boxer Jack Johnson in the stage and screen hit "The Great White Hope," the writer Alex Haley in "Roots: The Next Generation" and a South African minister in "Cry, the Beloved Country."
He was also a sought-after voice actor, expressing the villainy of Darth Vader ("No, I am your father," commonly misremembered as "Luke, I am your father"), as... Read More