SapientNitro’s la comunidad has tapped Jake Wheeler to serve as creative director, underscoring the agency’s commitment to digital and to further expand its total market creative offering.
Wheeler comes over from Grey NY where he led the Volvo North America business. He brings with him over a decade of creative leadership in content and campaign development across both digital and traditional channels.
Prior to Grey, Wheeler served as CD at SapientNitro, splitting his time between Miami and Shanghai. During his tenure at SapientNitro he led key projects for Ferrari and ran the U.S. digital business for FIAT Chrysler. He also oversaw key projects for Bacardi, Tag Heuer, and Microsoft in China.
At la comunidad, Wheeler will report directly to CCOs Jose and Joaquin Molla.
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband.
Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC's general counsel. He has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times and was nominated by both Trump and President Joe Biden to the commission.
The FCC is an independent agency that is overseen by Congress, but Trump has suggested he wanted to bring it under tighter White House control, in part to use the agency to punish TV networks that cover him in a way he doesn't like.
Carr has of late embraced Trump's ideas about social media and tech. Carr wrote a section devoted to the FCC in " Project 2025," a sweeping blueprint for gutting the federal workforce and dismantling federal agencies in a second Trump administration produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation.
Trump has claimed he doesn't know anything about Project 2025, but many of its themes have aligned with his statements.
Carr said in a statement congratulating Trump on his win that he believed "the FCC will have an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth."
"Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans' Freedoms, and held back our Economy," Trump said in a statement on Sunday. "He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America's Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America."
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