Strategy heavyweight Catherine Heath returns to Australia for major M&C Saatchi role
M&C Saatchi has hired the worldwide group planning director of TBWA\ Chiat\ Day Catherine Heath as its executive strategy director for Australia, Mumbrella can reveal. She starts today.
Heath, a graduate of the University of Sydney, has been working in the US operation of the TBWA network for two years.
Prior to that she spent a brief stint as chief strategy officer at Boston creative agency Modernista.
Heath’s move marks a return to M&C Saatchi where she worked as a strategic planner from 2001 to 2003. She then went on to do a similar role at Young & Rubicon (which has since become GPY&R).
Other roles then included creative planning director at Kastner & Partners and planning director at McCann Worldgroup’s San Fransisco based T.A.G.
Heath also own her own consultancy Once Upon A Time Brands.
She replaces head of strategy Colin Jowell who left M&C Saatchi in July to become MD pf FutureBrand Australia.
At the time of posting, M&C Saatchi was not immediately available for comment.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large. He returned to Mumbrella as Publisher in January 2025
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welcome home Catherine
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Congratuations Catherine.
She has the Gen Y age group wrong in that Sunrise piece (if you are reading this Catherine). They are out of their teens and into their 30’s now (1980 – 1991)
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