Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) New York has appointed Robert Rasmussen to the newly formed role of executive creative director of innovation. Formerly executive creative director at interactive shop R/GA, running Nike+, NikeID, Nike Football, Nike Basketball, Nike Running and Nike Women, Rasmussen will report to BBH chief creative officer Kevin Roddy…..Scott Kemper has joined DDB Chicago as senior producer. He formerly served as executive producer at Arnold Worldwide, New York. This will be Kemper’s second stint with the DDB family; he worked at the corporate office for more than six years at the beginning of his career….Mark Anderson has come aboard Crash+Sues, Minneapolis, as an online editor. He comes over from Avenue Edit, Chicago….Eduardo de Felipe and David Boleas, a creative duo at U.K.’s Dare Digital, have exited that shop to launch independent, London-based digital production agency Pirata. The new venture, which specializes in design, production and technical solutions, has the backing of U.K. digital agency Work Club. Pirata’s first commissions are from two leading digital agencies and a major project from an undisclosed top 10 advertising agency. The jobs are slated to go live in early 2009. Boleas was formerly creative lead at Dare while de Felipe was Dare’s associate creative director and is a ’09 D&AD judge….Culver City, Calif-based design hybrid shop The Famous Group has brought Joel Lava aboard as the supervising creative director on all of its projects. Lava has spent more than a decade in live action and motion graphics as a top designer/animator for such production design studios as Imaginary Forces, Brand New School, Logan and Buck….
Director Cassandra Brooksbank Joins Monument Content For Spots and Branded Content
Monument Content has signed director Cassandra “Cassie” Brooksbank for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. She brings to her directing and storytelling the experience and skills of a writer, conceptual artist, editor and visual effects artist.
Her body of work as a director includes Pepsi’s “Selfie” featuring Lionel Messi amid a flurry of fans, Barclays madcap women’s Soccer League spot where she collaborated closely with the agency to develop the creative, ultimately winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sports Industry Awards, and a grass-roots campaign for Fellow Coffee. The latter just didn’t brew buzz; it helped raise $1.2 million on Kickstarter.
Prior to joining Monument Content, Brooksbank had been repped in the U.S. for commercials by production house Hey Wonderful.
On the long-form front, she is repped by CAA for film and television. And on the horizon is her debut feature, My Masterpiece, produced by Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions and backed by Amazon.
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