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.
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.”
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
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