M&C Saatchi appoints Russell Hopson as group MD

Russell Hopson has joined M&C Saatchi as group managing director across Australia.

Hopson joins the agency from Adam&Eve DDB in the UK where he was a group managing director for almost two years.

Hopson said: “The Group’s capabilities and scale put it on par with anywhere
else in the world right now”

The group managing director role is a newly created role for M&C Saatchi.

Jaimes Leggett, CEO of M&C Saatchi, said in a statement: “We went to market looking for the best in the business and I believe we’ve found it. Russell’s appointment brings incredible experience to our already formidable leadership team.”

Hopson said: “It took something really special to make me want to leave adam&eve/DDB; and this role at M&C Saatchi is precisely that.”

Abigail Dawson

Abigail Dawson is a senior content journalist covering event content. Abigail was previously a senior reporter for Mumbrella covering the agency space. She graduated from RMIT University in 2016 where she completed a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) majoring in politics, economies and businesses.

topics Jaimes Leggett, M&C Saatchi, Russell Hopson

Share Tweet Share

Comments: 1 Add Comment

big ask 19 Jul 17

he will need to be very good, really tough/thick skinned and incredibly lucky to be successful in this job.

He’s never worked in Australia before and he’s dropping into an agency with a highly demanding and idiosyncratic boss, no CCO and managing a viper’s nest with warring political factions in every direction

meanwhile the agency lost it’s second biggest client last year, has senior people leaving in droves and hasn’t produced a decent campaign in memory

Reply

---

Have your say

Name

Email Address (optional)

Website (optional)