Theo Izzard-Brown, the CSO at McCann London, will transfer to Dentsu Inventive UK subsequent summer season to take up the identical function.
He’ll be part of Jessica Tamsedge, who additionally not too long ago introduced a transfer from McCann to Dentsu, the place she will probably be UK CEO. At Dentsu, Izzard-Brown will work on shoppers together with Heinz, DAZN, Waitrose, The Co-operative Financial institution, Vodafone, Kellogg’s, Halfords and Generali.
Dentsu Inventive UK has been in search of a brand new CSO for some time. Within the interim, the function has been stuffed by Patricia McDonald, the company’s world head of technique. She’s going to proceed to supervise UK technique till Izzard-Brown arrives in June.
Izzard-Brown stated: “This function presents a singular alternative to think about the form of a enterprise Dentsu Inventive can and must be for the UK market. With its deep bench of cross-disciplinary experience all beneath one roof, my intestine tells me Dentsu Inventive holds the profitable hand.”
In addition to technique, Izzard-Brown is thought for his pitch-winning abilities. At McCann he was instrumental in bringing many new shoppers on board, together with Reckitt, Pernod Ricard’s Chivas and Gin portfolio, and Simply Eat. He was beforehand at Wieden + Kennedy London.
McCann, in the meantime, can be constructing a brand new administration group. Jemima Monies not too long ago moved from adam&eveDDB to develop into COO, whereas earlier this 12 months Polly McMorrow joined as CEO from BBH and Nusara Chinnaphasaen joined from W+Ok as head of technique.