BBH New York has appointed agency veteran Matthew Anderson to serve as chief growth officer. Anderson joins BBH following a career of business development roles as global CMO at Code & Theory, CMO at Publicis NY and managing director of business development at The Kaplan Thaler Group. Anderson was most recently CMO at the PR/Communications agency Marina Maher Communications where he led the agency’s growth and agency marketing initiatives. Anderson will report to New York CEO Anthony Romano, who recently joined BBH from R/GA.
Anderson’s business development experience began at Deutsch, where he spent nine years and was elevated to head of business development for the New York office. Throughout his career, Anderson has been responsible for influencing a long list of account wins, including Wendy’s, Abbott Nutrition, USAA, Red Lobster, PNC Bank, J&J Acuvue and Merck.
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More
