Ogilvy adds to creative clout

OGIVLY   APPOINTMENT  GRAHAM FINK

Shanghai - Ogilvy & Mather Advertising has hired eight creatives from around the globe to work with its key clients as more companies shift their focus onto China.

Stephane Delgado Hunziker is appointed head of art to work on clients such as Unilever and Lee.

Prior to joining, Hunziker founded a creative studio called Pacific Partner Limited in Hong Kong in 2009 and spent nearly a decade in design and creative roles at Vogue and Vogue Homme Intentional in Paris and Lane Crawford in Hong Kong.

Simond Chew moves from Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore where he was creative group head to take the role of creative director at Ogilvy, working with Unilever.

Rocky Hao joins as creative director, overseeing the Philips account. He previously was working at Grey Shanghai where he led the teams working on Sony and Allianz accounts.

Su Jin joins the creative team as senior art director for Unilever. Moving in from London, she was previously doing freelance work for brands such as Nokia, Diageo and Novotel. From 2010 to 2011 she worked at JWT London with clients such as HSBC, Rolex, Huggies and Johnson & Johnson.

Davide Rossi flies in from Italy to take the role of associate creative director. He was previously with DDB Milan where he worked on accounts such as Kraft, BP, Castrol and Victoria Tourism. He also served as senior conceptual creative and supervisor on integrated projects for Volkswagen, Audi, Hasbro and Fujitsu.

Martin Latham, who moves in from M&C Saatchi London, takes the role of associate creative director to create campaigns for clients such as Lee, Coca Cola energy drink Burn and DFS Galleria.

Aaron Yuan and William Goh both join the Unilever account as associate creative directors. The pair left Dubai where they were working as a team for Plan.net Middle East since 2009 as art director and copy writer respectively, working for BMW and MINI.

All the hired creative will report to Graham Fink, chief creative officer of O&M China and Francis Wee, executive creative director of O&M Advertising/Shanghai.

Raymond Tao, president of O&M Advertising/China, said with clients moving an increasing amount of their creative production to Shanghai, Ogilvy has assembled a team to help them stand out.

"Everyday we're seeing the shift to China as the next battleground for global creative supremacy," Tao said. 

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