Coad, Dery, Horgan and McDonald join Communications Council board
New faces on one of the key bodies for the Australian communications industry include CHE boss Mark Coad, M&C Saatchi’s Tom Dery, media agency boss Peter Horgan, and digital creative Iain McDonald.
They are among the newly elected board of the Communications Council.
The announcement:
The Communications Council, Australia’s peak advertising industry body, today announced the composition of its new board of directors following its Annual General Meeting.
Anthony Freedman, Chief Executive Officer of Host was unanimously reappointed as Chairman. Craig Davis, Co-Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Publicis Mojo was appointed Co-Deputy Chairman with Jeremy Nicholas, Executive Planning Director of BMF.
Six new industry, creative and specialist industry leaders were also unanimously elected to the national board.
“It is a great outcome for The Communications Council to have assembled a board of extremely experienced agency leaders including representatives with global, and regional, as well as local responsibilities, and with a spectrum of roles including agency management, creative, planning, media and digital expertise. This team places the Council in an exceptional position, to be able to tackle the wide range of issues and needs of our diverse membership.” Mr Freedman said.
The newly elected board members are:
• Mark Coad – Chief Executive Officer CHE
• Craig Davis – Co-Chairman & Chief Creative Officer Publicis Mojo
• Tom Dery – Worldwide Chairman M & C Saatchi
• Peter Horgan – Managing Partner OMD
• Iain McDonald – Executive Creative Director Amnesia Razorfish
• Grant Rutherford – Executive Creative Director DDB Melbourne
They join existing interim board members re-elected today: Anthony Freedman (Chief Executive Officer Host), Matthew Melhuish (Chief Executive Officer BMF), Michael Ritchie (Executive Producer Revolver), Darryn Devlin, (Creative Partner Lunch Partners) Sudeep Gohil (Strategic Planning Director / Partner Droga5) and Jeremy Nicholas (Executive Planning Director BMF).
Anthony Freedman also thanked outgoing interim board members for their commitment through the lead up to and introduction of the Communications Council on 1 January 2010.
Daniel Leesong, CEO of the Communications Council said: “We are delighted to welcome the new board members to the Communications Council. The newly elected board will play a key role in moving our industry forward and is an impressive representation of the breadth and depth of the industry.”
Source: The Communications Council announcement
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Peter Horgan
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