Female creative team Ali Beales and Janet Evans lured from Ogilvy & Mather Sydney to The Works
Kevin MacNamara, CD of Sydney indie ad agency The Works, has poached female creative team Ali Beales and Janet Evans from Ogilvy Sydney.
At Ogilvy writer Evans (near left) and art director Beales (far left) worked on clients such as St.George, Qantas and Nestle.
Says MacNamara: “These creatives bring over 28 years experience, which is an extensive knowledge of the creative business, and a wealth of understanding across a huge diversity of clients from telcos, finance, travel and automotive to FMCG and not for profits.”
For Macnamara one of his first objectives was finding people who fit. “We’ve waited some time to find people who fit the Creatives on the Forefront way of doing things. We look for creatives who are able to live our model through excellent creative work and the ability to communicate with clients.”
For Evans and Beales the next step is to continue what they do best, delivering problem solving creative that works.
Says Macnamara: “Along with picking up international awards such as London International, NY Festivals, Mobius and closer to home the Folio Awards, this team is known to forge highly effective working relationships with clients. Essentially this means they are a real asset for The Works and its clients.”
The Works has also appointed art director Olivia Rigby, who comes from Bezier, one of the biggest retail marketing agencies in London where she worked as a senior designer.
26 Comments
Was the first word in that headline really necessary?
Lovely girls – and good luck to them at The Works.
Congrats guys!
It’s not hard to poach people from Ogilvy.
Go JenAli xx
Yay Ali and Janet!
Go you GORGEOUS girls! SD x
Gooorrrrrgggeeeooouuuusssss.
Why ‘Female creative team’? If it was two blokes would it be ‘Male creative team’?
the one on the left for me
How about ‘Human creative team…’
Did you really have to label them by their sex?
Obviously a man writes this blog.
I think 1:13 just answered 12:55’s question.
And I agree with both.
Embarrassing that we work in an industry where ‘female creative team’ is a headline. Can you imagine reading ‘female banker hired’ or ‘female lawyer joins firm’? Hats off to them though – female, creative AND over 30 – not many of those around.
Headline
Team gets gig at another shop.
(After all, it’s Tuesday, slow news day)
Ah hem… They haven’t worked at Ogilvy for sometime now. Lured? Really?
Alternate headlines:
“Talented creative team hired.”
“Clever creative team hired.”
“Terribly sexy creative team hired.”
etc.
Great stuff. Watch out lads. Now am I being sexist? Meh how can we get offended we all work in advertising.
You go, creative people
Well done gorgeous! Cheers Jason
I think it is great that Kev has filled the obvious gaps in the agency by finally hiring a brunette human who likes to wear white focks and a red-headed human who wears stripey blue tops and spectacles.
We’ve been looking for this exact combo too, so I guess we’ll have to pay more now. Unless there are more like them back home.
After considerable thought, I’ve solved the sexist headline problem in a completely non gender-specific way:
‘Extremely attractive creative team Ali Beales and Janet Evans lured from Ogilvy & Mather Sydney to The Works’
No, Clam, you wouldn’t describe a male team as ‘Extremely attractive’ or even ‘Attractive’.
What about
‘The Works hires a bit of skirt’
‘Big’ Kevin MacNamara, CD of Sydney indie ad agency The Works, has poached easy on the eye creative team Ali Beales and Janet Evans from Ogilvy Sydney.
I only clicked on this article because I was interested to see why it had 25 comments. I immediately regret my decision.
Sex sells.