Napper Tandy has joined Doner‘s Newport Beach, Calif., office as creative director, where he will oversee all creative content that comes out of the office, including work for Mazda, Del Taco and Roy’s Hawaiian Cuisine. In addition, Tandy will play a key role in the agency’s business development efforts. Tandy formerly served as a copywriter at Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Torrance, Calif., working on such accounts as Toyota (Tacoma, Tundra), Toyota Motorsports and Operation Hope….TBWA Worldwide has promoted Suzanne Powers to the new role of global strategy director, working across the TBWA network’s portfolio of MARS brands. In addition, she will be helping to develop strategic initiatives that will support all of TBWA’s global clients. Powers will work with global client, Mars, including the Pedigree, Whiskas, Dove and Twix brands, partnering with worldwide managing director for the Mars account, Patrick Collins. She will also continue to actively help develop and drive TBWA’s Disruption and Media Arts philosophies and best practices throughout the network. Powers joined TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles in 2000, as account planning director working with brands including Sara Lee, Mars, PlayStation and Visa. Making a move to the New York office, she continued working with Mars and expanded her client experience to include Absolut, Nivea and Hotels.com…..Veteran animation director Lesley Headrick has joined guru Studio, Toronto. She was most recently animation director on the Aardman Animation series Chop Socky Chooks….
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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