Zulu Alpha Kilo has hired two new creative directors and two strategy directors.
On the creative front, Gerald Kugler and Rodger Eyre join from Juniper Park/TBWA where they were most recently group creative directors. Prior to the merger of Juniper Park and TBWA, the pair were executive creative directors at TBWA where they oversaw notable campaigns such as Gatorade’s “Sledge Hockey” and Nissan’s “Back in the game” documentary. They spent six years running Nissan, creating the “Conquer All Conditions” campaign, which recently earned them a Gold Cassie award in the “Sustained Success’ category in 2016. Throughout their careers, their work has won Cannes Lions, One Show, Communication Arts, Clios, and Marketing awards. Prior to TBWA, they’ve worked at Crispin, Porter & Bogusky, Roche Macaulay, BBDO and ACLC.
They will report into Zulu’s chief creative officer and founder, Zak Mroueh. Kugler and Eyre will join a diverse creative team which includes six other creative directors.
In addition to the hires on the creative team, Zulu strengthened the strategy team by adding two strategy directors, Laura Kim and Tim Hopkins.
Kim joins Zulu from Leo Burnett Chicago and its innovation group, Farmhouse. Kim has worked with such clients as Pfizer, Visa, McDonald¹s, Samsung and Dunkin’ Donuts. Her strategic skillset combines cognitive psychology, trend analysis, and research. Prior to Burnett, she worked at SapientNitro.
Hopkins joins Zulu from Grey London where he lead strategy across some of Grey’s global clients and was a founding director of Grey Response. He has 20 years’ experience in brand, integrated, and transactional marketing with clients such as Vodafone, Volvo and Marks & Spencer.
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