Juan Charvet has joined Y&R New York as director of experience strategy. In this newly created role, Charvet reports to chief strategy officer Dick de Lange, who joined Y&R in October from R/GA. Charvet arrives at the agency shortly after the hire of Leslie Sims as its chief creative officer, and is the latest appointment by Y&R president Jim Radosevic.
Charvet brings to Y&R a mix of experience in technology, digital strategy, process methodology, user experience and business strategy. Most recently, he spent two years as a technical director at 360i, leading teams of experience designers, developers, content strategists and more for clients including Canon USA, Mondelez International and Ben & Jerry’s. Prior to that, Charvet was associate technology director at frog, where he counseled clients including GE, the Comcast Corporation, and Bloomberg L.P. with technology research, solution architecture, digital strategy and end-to-end implementation management. He previously worked as lead developer, technology at Y&R sister agency VML and executed digital components of Y&R campaigns including Xerox’s “Real Business” and LG’s “Give it a Ponder.”
Charvet has also contributed his talents as a consultant, designer and developer to a variety of companies, including Red Tettemer, Imaginary Forces, and I-SITE, Inc.
Y&R New York works with an array of consumer and B to B clients, including Campbell’s, Dell, Hillshire Brands, Land Rover, Optum, Pepperidge Farm, Xerox and a number of healthcare and pharmaceutical brands.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More