Zulu Alpha Kilo has hired two new creative directors and two strategy directors.
On the creative front, Gerald Kugler and Rodger Eyre join from Juniper Park/TBWA where they were most recently group creative directors. Prior to the merger of Juniper Park and TBWA, the pair were executive creative directors at TBWA where they oversaw notable campaigns such as Gatorade’s “Sledge Hockey” and Nissan’s “Back in the game” documentary. They spent six years running Nissan, creating the “Conquer All Conditions” campaign, which recently earned them a Gold Cassie award in the “Sustained Success’ category in 2016. Throughout their careers, their work has won Cannes Lions, One Show, Communication Arts, Clios, and Marketing awards. Prior to TBWA, they’ve worked at Crispin, Porter & Bogusky, Roche Macaulay, BBDO and ACLC.
They will report into Zulu’s chief creative officer and founder, Zak Mroueh. Kugler and Eyre will join a diverse creative team which includes six other creative directors.
In addition to the hires on the creative team, Zulu strengthened the strategy team by adding two strategy directors, Laura Kim and Tim Hopkins.
Kim joins Zulu from Leo Burnett Chicago and its innovation group, Farmhouse. Kim has worked with such clients as Pfizer, Visa, McDonald¹s, Samsung and Dunkin’ Donuts. Her strategic skillset combines cognitive psychology, trend analysis, and research. Prior to Burnett, she worked at SapientNitro.
Hopkins joins Zulu from Grey London where he lead strategy across some of Grey’s global clients and was a founding director of Grey Response. He has 20 years’ experience in brand, integrated, and transactional marketing with clients such as Vodafone, Volvo and Marks & Spencer.
Emotional Speeches By Jafar Panahi and Ryan Coogler Stir The NBR Awards Ceremony
An emotional plea by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and moving words from Ryan Coogler on the violence in Minneapolis stirred a National Board of Review Awards ceremony Tuesday in which Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" was again crowned the best film of the year. Coming two days after Sunday's Golden Globes, the annual, untelevised New York gala, held in the cavernous midtown banquet all Cipriani 42nd Street and hosted by Willie Geist, played out as a more intimate and frank-spoken alternative. The winners themselves were already announced, so the night was always going to belong to "One Battle After Another." The National Board of review, a group that is made up of film enthusiasts and dates to 1909, not only named it 2025's best film but awarded the best actor prize to Leonardo DiCaprio, best director to Anderson, best supporting actor to Benicio Del Toro and breakthrough performer to Chase Infiniti. Yet in an ongoing parade of awards for "One Battle After Another," its night at the NBRs still stood out. The surprise presenter of the movie's best film award was Martin Scorsese, who praised "the audacity" of Anderson's narratives and the accomplishment of his latest. "Like all great films, it can't really be compared to anything else," Scorsese said. "It stands alone. It's a great American film." Anderson, trying to take in the wealth of honors, attempted to describe what " One Battle After Another," his father-daughter tale of revolution, might represent. His answer came in pointing out his own daughter, sitting at his table. "I don't know what our movie is about, but I do know it's about loving your kids," Anderson said. For many of the honorees, the world outside the starry banquet weighed heavily. Coogler's speech was among... Read More