People on the Move

Swedish-born director Joakim Reveman has come aboard the roster of Interrogate, the bicoastal production company founded by managing director Jeff Miller.

Reveman made his first industry mark on the agency side of the business. Reveman was just 25 when he won his first Cannes Gold Lion for Doctors Without Borders, effectively jump-starting his advertising career. As a creative director at TBWA Paris, he won over 40 international awards, which in turn helped the agency win the Cannes Lion’s “Ad Agency of the Year” honor for three consecutive years.

Shortly thereafter, Joakim launched his own directing collective, The Vikings, with several like-minded friends. Their first endeavor was The Power of Wind, a film that the Gunn Report stated was the “Second Most Awarded Film” that year, after nabbing a Gold Lion at Cannes, and top honors at the AICP Show, Clio, One Show, ADC and the Grand Prix at Eurobest.

Working in Europe and then the U.S. under @radical.media before signing on with Interrogate, Reveman has collaborated with a wide variety of clients including Nike, Cadbury, BMW, Epuron, Schick and ESPN alongside agencies like GSD&M, Wieden+Kennedy and Euro RSCG New York. 

The ANA (Association of National Advertisers) elected Tony Pace, global chief marketing officer at Subway, as its new chairperson and Marc S. Pritchard, chief brand officer at The Procter & Gamble Co., as vice chair. In addition, 10 new marketing executives were elected to the board of directors. The officers and board members were approved by the ANA membership at its annual conference held in Orlando, Florida, from October 15-18.

The new members of the ANA Board are: Debra Berman, senior vice president, marketing at JCPenney; Roel de Vries, corporate vice president, global head of marketing, communication and brand strategy at Nissan Motor Co.; Natalia Franco, executive vice president, chief strategy and brand officer at California Pizza Kitchen, Inc.; Jack Haber, vice president, global advertising and digital at Colgate-Palmolive Co.; Jack Hollis, vice president, marketing at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.; Gerald E. Johnson II, chief diversity officer and senior vice president, marketing, stroke and multicultural at The American Heart Association; Kristin Lemkau, chief marketing officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Chantel Lenard, director, U.S. marketing at Ford Motor Co.; Alison Lewis, chief marketing officer, consumer family of companies at Johnson & Johnson; and Rodney Williams, senior vice president, Moët Hennessy USA, LVMH Moët Hennessy

“We are excited to welcome our new directors to their role for the upcoming year, and sincerely thank our departing board members for their strong leadership,” said Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the ANA. “The industry knowledge and marketing expertise the ANA Board of Directors brings to its role will help guide the organization as we drive marketing excellence and leadership throughout the industry.

72andSunny has just opened a New York office, hiring Guillermo Vega as executive creative director. Vega formerly served in the same ECD capacity at Wieden+Kennedy São Paulo, which he helped to launch, growing it from three employees to 100-plus staffers in four years and winning clients like Nike, Coca-Cola, Levi’s and Heineken. He joined W&K from Y+R, where he worked for over 13 years, rising to Regional Creative Director and overseeing Latin America from the Y&R headquarters in New York. He also worked as global CD for Dell and Bacardi, as well as the group CD for Virgin Atlantic and VH1.

Guillermo will be lead 72andSunny’s New York office along with managing director James Townsend, who will be relocating to NY from the Los Angeles office. While in L.A., Townsend played an active role in the work and partnership with brands like Samsung, ESPN, Truth, and more. Townsend will continue to lead the Samsung brand.

The New York staff currently consists of 40 designers, writers, strategists, social media planners, brand managers, and content production people. They will initially support primarily the Samsung and Smirnoff brands.

72andSunny’s NY office occupies 13,000 square feet on the top two floors of 30 Cooper Square in the heart of the East Village.

Global executive search firm Grace Blue is opening an office in Singapore to join its locations in New York and London. Continuing to work with communications companies, media, creative and advertising agencies, Grace Blue Asia will expand the company’s footprint, fill key leadership positions and provide further support for the increasingly commonplace global search briefs in Asia-Pacific. Michael Maedel, former president of JWT Asia-Pacific, will spearhead the new Asia office as he joins Grace Blue as executive chairman. Grace Blue London partner Helen Duffy has relocated to the Singapore office.

“Asia-Pacific is a widely disparate region, with different approaches to marketing and media, but the common threads are enormous potential for growth, but a lack of enough world-class leadership talent,” said Maedel. “Grace Blue Asia aims to leverage the company’s existing European and U.S. experience to better answer global briefs and help businesses in the region find the very best people to fill their senior management positions.”