Sybil McCarthy-Hadfield has joined Los Angeles-based editorial/post house Jigsaw as executive producer. She comes over from the agency side, having served as a senior producer at TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles, where she worked on nearly every account there, including new automobile model launches for Nissan and Infiniti.
During her nine-year tenure at TBWA/Chiat/Day, McCarthy-Hadfield also worked on Sony PlayStation, the viral/Internet-based Pepsi “Oneify” campaign, and recently headed up the broadcast side of the new business pitch for McDonald’s.
Prior to TBWA/Chiat/Day, she produced at Arnold Worldwide, Boston, with campaigns for such accounts as Volkswagen, Titleist, NYNEX and McDonald’s to her credit.
Of the approach she plans at her new roost, McCarthy-Hadfield related, “If I can carry forth the same spirit of creativity and freedom that I found at TBWA into the postproduction arena at Jigsaw, we will win awards and collaborate more creatively with our clients. My intention is to build an effective support system at Jigsaw for agency creatives and producers. We will set out to demystify the postproduction process and provide solutions.”
McCarthy-Hadfield succeeds Traci Meyer as Jigsaw’s executive producer. Meyer left the business to pursue other interests. The Jigsaw talent roster includes editors Jon Hopp, Justin Trovato, David Trachtenberg and Peter Tarter, and Flame artist Mark Leiss.
Andrea Andrews is head of sales and marketing for Jigsaw. She handles sales nationally and teams with Mark Andrews and Astrid Steele of indie rep firm Where’s the Boards? to cover the West Coast.
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