McCann boosts Melbourne team with ten new appointments including six new creative hires

McCann has added 10 staff members to its Melbourne office, across its creative, account management and studio teams.

The new staff members include Renee Stewart in the newly created senior digital role of digital director, Adrian Mills as group account director, Caroline MacMillan as account director.

Stewart’s role will encompass all Melbourne clients, including Brown Brothers, Holden, L’Oreal, Oporto, Specsavers and the Federal Government. She most recently spent two and a half years in at Wunderman London, working across global accounts for Ford and Land Rover.

Mills joins McCann after four years at George Patterson Y&R Melbourne. He also wrote and teaches the Account Management Course for the Communications Council and is a member of the industry advisory board for RMIT. MacMillan was most recently at Melbourne agency Bastion, and has worked on clients including Carlton United Breweries, Westpac, Boost Juice and Medibank Private.

The agency has also added a key new creative team of art director Daniele Milazzo and writer Jake McLennan. The duo has been working together for five years, with stints at Clemenger BBDO Melbourne and Brisbane independent agency de pasquale. They’ve worked on some of Australia’s biggest brands including NAB, Parmalat, Yellow Pages, Mercedes-Benz, Mars and Foster’s.

Also joining the agency in creative roles are creative teams Millie Burke and Darby Hudson, Kimberley Duval and Ryan Purcell. Salena Kennedy joins as studio manager.

Says McCann executive creative director John Mescall (pictured above with yellow t-shirt): “In our industry, the biggest and best competitive advantage one agency can have over another is the quality and commitment of its people. And as an agency with a diverse range of clients, each with their own unique and challenging business needs, bringing in talented people with strong creative points of difference is crucial. Our task of reinventing McCann as a more progressive and less traditional agency may be well underway, but the key to achieving this lies in finding the best agency talent across Australia and New Zealand – wherever they may be. Our new Melbourne team is just the first chapter of this process.”

According to Mescall, McCann is also interviewing for a national head of planning and national head of digital, as well as more digital talent across both its Melbourne and Sydney offices. The agency is also seeking more senior creative talent for its Auckland office.