Former Colenso MD Brent Smart headed to Saatchi’s NYC as worldwide MD on General Mills

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Screen shot 2011-10-31 at 10.01.14 AM.jpgCB Exclusive – CB hears that Brent Smart, the former managing director of Colenso BBDO, Auckland, who has headed BBDO San Francisco for nearly two years, has been appointed by Saatchi & Saatchi to the new role of worldwide managing director on General Mills, based in New York – effective December 1. 

Smart will sit on the worldwide board with responsibility to drive integration across the Publicis Groupe.

During his stint at BBDO Smart made a lot of changes, including getting Mike McKay, the ECD of Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angeles across as ECD. Before that Smart, together with ECD Nick Worthington, was the driving force behindColenso BBDO’s success in recent years, including winning CampaignBrief’s NZ Agency of the Year title in 2008.