Two new creative teams have been appointed at TBWAChiatDay LA. Marco Monteiro and Ana Carolina Reis join from AlmapBBDO in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The other new duo at TBWAChiatDay consists of Guy Helm and Chris Rodriguez. Helm comes over from Mistress while Rodriguez joins from FCB LA. All four new hires come aboard as creative directors.
The appointments follow the promotion of Stephen Butler to TBWAChiatDay LA’s chief creative officer, with Fabio Costa and Brent Anderson as executive creative directors.
At AlmapBBDO, Monteiro and Reis worked together for over two years on brands including Volkswagen, Visa, PepsiCo, Bayer and Pedigree. The duo has a host of awards next to their names, including most recently a Gold and two Silver Lions from Cannes 2013. Prior to AlmapBBDO, Monteiro worked for Saatchi & Saatchi and Reis at Fallon.
Helm had been the lead creative at Mistress, working with brands including Hot Wheels, Disney, KIND Snacks, Jagermeister and Playboy. Rodriguez, famed for Allstate’s “Mayhem” in addition to work for brands including Kraft, Hallmark, Bounty and Nike, joins from FCB LA where he was sr. art director.
VCCP Hires Trio Of Creative Duos
Global communications network VCCP has brought three creative duos on board: Charli Camber (née Plant) and Laura Saraiva; Lance Boreham and Tom Dyson; and Jack Snell and Joe Lovett.
Associate creative directors Camber and Saraiva are a British-Portuguese duo known for creating entertaining, culturally influential, and emotionally resonant work. They are best known for “Waiting to Live,” a National Health Service (NHS) child organ donation campaign that placed 233 bespoke dolls representing children on the transplant waiting list in medical waiting rooms across the U.K. The campaign won over 50 awards, including three Cannes Lions, the Grand Prix at the Clios, ADC*E and Eurobest, as well as multiple D&AD Pencils.
Camber and Saraiva join VCCP after three years at VML, where they contributed to four agency pitch wins and worked across global brands including Batiste, Beko, and Duracell. They also helped launch the award-winning mentoring app Magpie and created “Check Me Out,” a provocative cervical cancer awareness campaign that gained traction on social media.
Boreham and Dyson join VCCP as a senior creative team. The duo first met on the renowned Watford ad course in 2014 and later reunited at isobel, where they delivered standout campaigns for Reed, Travelodge and Thortful. Their work has been recognized across the industry for its creativity and effectiveness.
Snell and Lovett also join VCCP as a senior creative team, marking a return to the agency where they spent the first seven years of their careers. During their initial tenure at VCCP, they played a pivotal role in launching major campaigns for Domino’s (“The Official Food of Everything”) and Virgin Media O2 (“Supercharge Your World”), as well as crafting... Read More