Communications Council board elected
The Communications Council, Australia’s peak advertising industry body, today announced the composition of its new board of directors following its Annual General Meeting.
Anthony Freedman, chief executive officer of Host was unanimously reappointed as chairman. Craig Davis, co-chairman and chief creative officer of Publicis Mojo was appointed co-deputy chairman with Jeremy Nicholas, executive planning director of BMF.
Six new industry, creative and specialist industry leaders were also unanimously elected to the national board.
“It is a great outcome for The Communications Council to have assembled a board of extremely experienced agency leaders including representatives with global, and regional, as well as local responsibilities, and with a spectrum of roles including agency management, creative, planning, media and digital expertise. This team places the Council in an exceptional position, to be able to tackle the wide range of issues and needs of our diverse membership.” Mr Freedman said.
The newly elected board members are:
• Mark Coad – Chief Executive Officer CHE (pictured)
• Craig Davis – Co-Chairman & Chief Creative Officer Publicis Mojo
• Tom Dery – Worldwide Chairman M & C Saatchi
• Peter Horgan – Managing Partner OMD
• Iain McDonald – Executive Creative Director Amnesia Razorfish
• Grant Rutherford – Executive Creative Director DDB Melbourne
They join existing interim board members re-elected today: Anthony Freedman (Chief Executive Officer Host), Matthew Melhuish (Chief Executive Officer BMF), Michael Ritchie (Executive Producer Revolver), Darryn Devlin, (Creative Partner Lunch Partners) Sudeep Gohil (Strategic Planning Director / Partner Droga5) and Jeremy Nicholas (Executive Planning Director BMF).
Anthony Freedman also thanked outgoing interim board members for their commitment through the lead up to and introduction of the Communications Council on 1 January 2010.
Daniel Leesong, CEO of the Communications Council said: “We are delighted to welcome the new board members to the Communications Council. The newly elected board will play a key role in moving our industry forward and is an impressive representation of the breadth and depth of the industry.”
5 Comments
And I thought Mad Men was a period drama set in the 60’s. Silly me, it’s a documentary about advertising in Australia in 2010. Football clubs have a more progressive approach to female representation on their boards than the advertising industry. For an industry already being scrutinised by the public, industry and government in it’s representation of women, this could not be a more strategically stupid choice.
Oh 5:57 pull your head out of your fanny. I can’t think of any Australian females that are as talented and high up as Craig Davis.
There’s one who’s ok, but she pops her head on the tele or newspaper every opportunity she gets and, funnily enough she hasn’t even been employed by a decent agency for quite a while now. She’s a ‘consultant’, and like all ‘consultants’ probably not eligible to be elected to the board of the communications council.
8:44 you are the glass ceiling.
haha… the glass ceiling of who’s house?
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