Hill Holliday has named Icaro Doria to serve as its chief creative officer. He had most recently been global CCO at Havas Health & You and prior to that was U.S. CCO at Arnold Worldwide. Earlier the native Brazilian was the founding partner and CCO at Wieden + Kennedy São Paulo which he helped grow from the ground up.
A 25-year industry vet, Doria has worked with brands ranging from Coca Cola and Diageo to Nike, Hilton Hotels, Carl’s Jr’s, Hardees, Old Spice, Heineken and many others. Doria has judged and won major creativity and effectiveness awards in the industry several times over including Cannes Lions Awards, One Show, Clio, and others.
For seven years, he also worked alongside Hall of Famer and late basketball legend Kobe Bryant on several projects, from the superstar athlete’s 20th year with the NBA to an initiative aimed at-risk kids in sports.
“I’d like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the entire team at Havas Health and You. The opportunity to join Hill Holliday and partner with (chairman and CEO) Karen Kaplan and her leadership team is an absolute honor. Hill Holliday has both an incredible creative legacy and a very bright future. I can’t wait to see what we’ll be able do together,” said Doria.
“Icaro is a flat-out superstar,” said Chris Wallrapp, president of Hill Holliday. “He’s got all the tools a modern CCO needs to succeed, and he brings an infectious energy to absolutely everything he does. As an agency, we’re all about embracing change, and Icaro is a game changer.”
Hill Holliday continues to increase its already-diverse roster of clients, having quietly added new accounts like BMW Motorrad, Fireball Whisky, and Community Coffee, alongside names like Santander, who consolidated both media and creative with the shop. The agency has also experienced impressive growth since launching its healthcare practice, Hill Holliday Health, by bringing on four new client companies and seven new brands in CNS, oncology, women’s healthcare and ophthalmology.
In addition to Doria, Hill Holliday has hired Aisha Losche, formerly of Publicis, as SVP of ED&I efforts, and Marco Castro as the head of account operations.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More