PEOPLE

Singapore - Michael Rebelo, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore, will be relocating in June to London as its new UK managing director.

Singapore - The Nielsen Company has appointed Michael Sherrard to the newly-created role of executive director, FMCG Customized Research, Asia Pacific, who reports to MD Alastair Gordon.

Singapore - Group MD for DDB group Singapore and president and managing partner for Rapp Collins Asia Pacific, Richard Bleasdale, is set to join integrated marketing agency Iris as regional CEO for Asia Pacific.

Singapore - Puma Sports has appointed Sheryl Wong, former VP of Triumph International, as its new GM for Singapore, tasked to build its brand value as well as oversee its local operations.

Singapore - BBDO Asia has appointed Joanna McEwan as public relations director based in Singapore and reporting to BBDO Singapore MD Jean-Paul Burge.

Global - Porter Novelli has appointed a new chief marketing officer, Marian Salzman, who is currently serving as JWT Worldwide's EVP and CMO.

Hong Kong - Burson-Marsteller will absorb the managing director role into the agency, when current MD Mary Devereux departs the agency at the end of this month.

Role description: You must be a team player who actively contributes to design & solutions and have a Computer Science or Multimedia Tech degree or diploma with 2+ years of relevant hands-on experience.

Shanghai - MindShare Interaction has nabbed Meg Wu, former general manager for Zed Digital China, as general manager for China and will relocate from Beijing to Shanghai.

Role description: You will have to manage and develop our entire product range and be the key driver for the brand's position and market share across SE Asia.

Malaysia - Hanis Harun has moved from TNS to join The Nielsen Company as executive director of its telco industry practice group, Asia Pacific, whileBarry Ooi has moved from Nielsen Malaysia to executive director of shopper insights in SE Asia.

Singapore - Levi Strauss Asia Pacific has hired former Adidas marketing director, James Tan to the role of regional marketing communications manager.

Ten years after selling Hamlarick Media to Aegis, Richard Halmarick announced he will stand down from his role as CEO Asia South for Aegis Media Asia Pacific.

Singapore - Young and Rubicam (Y&R) has hired Taru Jain as its head of digital, tasked with driving a digital culture within the agency and its clients as well as being the main contact for its digital strategic partners.

Singapore - Leo Burnett and Arc Worldwide Singapore have hired former director of marketing for Courts Thailand, Helen Rasmussen, as client services director.

Singapore - Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions has promoted Geert Desager to the newly created role of trade marketing manager for SE Asia and in charge of B2B marketing for products such as MSN and Windows Live.

Malaysia - Amit Sutha has joined BBDO Malaysia as the new strategic planning director replacing Arindam Chatterjee who moved to Publicis.

Regional - Richard Halmarick, a long-standing senior executive of Aegis Media Asia Pacific, has resigned from the media buying group.

Role Description: You will have to identify, build and manage strategic business partnerships and actively engage with potential service enablers like mobile network operators, mobile handset manufacturers & media companies across geographies.

Role description: You will craft and execute strong regional marketing plans and drive the publicity to ensure good attendance (delegates and visitors), and on another level, have a positive impact on the sales revenue.

Singapore - Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions's country sales manager Chris Schaumann will move internally to take on the role of global advertising and digital lead for the company.

Singapore - Singapore Telecommunications' (SingTel) director of brand experience, Sherie Ng, will leave the company at the end of February - just six months after she was brought on-board.

Malaysia - Five Malaysians have been selected to sit on the panel of judges at ADFEST 2008 under various categories.

Singapore - JWT has promoted JWT India's Sapna Srivastava to the role of chief talent officer for the APAC region and relocated her to the agency's regional office in Singapore.

Australia - Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific and STW Communications Group have appointed Stuart O'Brien as CEO for Ogilvy's advertising, direct and digital businesses in Australia and New Zealand.

Regional - TNBT has expanded into a fifth SE Asian market with the launch of Crush advertising in Brunei, headed by Matthew Ng who formerly oversaw the marketing department of Malaysia's third largest mobile phone distributor, Samart I-Mobile.

Singapore - Tequila Thailand MD, Tom Hannigan, has been posted to Singapore to head the local office as GM after two years in his previous role handling accounts such as Microsoft, Standard Chartered Bank and Pernod Ricard.

Hong Kong - Jamie Lord, MindShare marketing & business development director, has resigned from the agency and will relocate back to Australia.

Singapore - GE Money has posted Iqbal Singh, chief marketing officer (CMO) for GE Money Asia and CEO for Singapore, to India where he will lead the business as president and CEO.