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New-look McCann hires ten staff

Ad agency McCann, which made public its desire to re-focus on youth and digital after it merged with Smart in a reverse takeover in September, has announced ten new hires in its Melbourne office.

Renee Stewart joins from Wunderman to take on a newly creative role – digital director – and will work across clients including Brown Brothers, Holden, L’Oreal, Oporto, Specsavers and the Federal Government.

The agency is currently interviewing for a national head of digital and a national head of planning, and is looking for more digital talent.

Also joining are Adrian Mills from GPY&R Melbourne as group account director and Caroline MacMillan as account director from Bastion. Creative teams Millie Burke and Darby Hudson, Kimberley Duval and Ryan Purcell have also come on board. Salena Kennedy joins as studio manager.

McCann ECD John Mescall said:

“In our industry, the biggest and best competitive advantage one agency can have over another is the quality and commitment of its people. And as an agency with a diverse range of clients, each with their own unique and challenging business needs, bringing in talented people with strong creative points of difference is crucial. Our task of reinventing McCann as a more progressive and less traditional agency may be well underway, but the key to achieving this lies in finding the best agency talent across Australia and New Zealand – wherever they may be. Our new  Melbourne team is just the first chapter of this process.”

The news comes just as McCann Sydney’s ECD Michael Raso moved to Ogilvy.

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