Howatson+White bolsters creative and design team with host of new appointments
Howatson+White has today announced several new appointments including Leslie Sharpe as creative director and head of art, Caroline Gilroy as design director, Demian Hamann as senior designer, and Elaine Li, Jared Wicker, Tim Smith and Giles Watson as senior creatives, further strengthening the agency’s creative offering.
Says Ant White, CCO and founder of Howatson+White: “We’ve been blown away by the calibre of talent who are joining us so early in our history. It feels exciting and meaningful to build our team. We all share a big ambition that unites us to build an outstanding creative culture that fast tracks creative talent and continually delivers opportunities and distinctive work that we’re proud of, that drives our clients’ success.”
Leslie Sharpe, creative director and head of art, has over a decade of experience working across local and global brands like Amazon, Qantas, Optus, and Tiger Beer. He previously spent time at Droga5 (Sydney), Marcel (Sydney) and Bear Meets Eagle On Fire. In between that he’s worked on various brand creation opportunities, working with individuals on early-stage start-up ideas in the digital health and wellbeing space.
Caroline Gilroy, Howatson+White’s recently appointed design director, brings over 15 years of experience in both traditional print design and advertising, having worked in Sydney, London, New York, and Melbourne. Most recently, she was design director at Re.
Senior designer Demian Hamann joins Howatson+White with 14 years of experience working as a visual designer in Wellington, Amsterdam, and Sydney. Demian has spent time at agencies including Resn (Wellington), Random Studio (Amsterdam), R/GA, Marcel, and Design Studio.
New Howatson+White senior creatives, Elaine Li and Jared Wicker, come from DDB Sydney, where together they led the Australian Red Cross account and created the latest Amarok campaign for Volkswagen, Walkinshaw Station. The duo has also worked on projects including the Super Bowl campaign Coors Big Game Dream and The Burnt Christmas Tree.
Tim Smith and Giles Watson also recently joined Howatson+White as a senior creative team based in Melbourne and bring over ten years of experience as creatives and CDs at some of the world’s top agencies across New Zealand, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and London.
These latest hires join recently appointed senior designers Dana Rogers and Ellena Mills, editorial writer Ashe Davenport, and creative Riana McKenzie, along with the growing Howatson+White team of business leaders, strategists, media planners and buyers, technologists, and social and PR practitioners.
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Can I just say this is the best thing I’ve seen on this blog.
I see what you did there.
Nice one Leslie and Demian! Two beautiful specimens.
mischief at NFA did the same thing with the funny picture – https://www.lbbonline.com/news/greg-hahn-set-to-make-mischief-with-canadian-agency-no-fixed-address
Keep trying!
Go Les!
By far the best bolstering we’ve seen all week
Clutching at straws there champ. Keep trying! 😊
Les, Caro & Demian are all legends! Great hires.
Yeh they didn’t steal it from Mischief. They got it from https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vince-vaughn-stock-photos_n_6799858
Nice one Jared + Elaine. H&W should be absolutely chuffed to have you.
Congrats to the new hires. What a shame the agency felt they should post a fake news photo to spin your appointment for more attention on themselves rather than on you as talented individuals. But I suppose they figured they may as well post a fake photo to go along with that “team of biz leaders, strategists, media planners and buyers, technologists and social and PR practitioners”.
So much hate
@laughstock – why so bitter mate?
Are people really posting here about how great using this stock image is? Is this how low the bar is right now?
Congrats Gil. Weapon.
I like how you both congratulate the new hires in the first sentence, and then condescendingly bag out the roles that they are undertaking in the last.
I believe that stock photo was meant for you.
when your press release is better than your actual work.
Need to get Thomas Barwick to take our next press shot because this is a vibe. Also, can’t wait to see what J’elaine do. They rock.
It’s a bit of fun…
Tim and Giles have never looked better.
Is this just a random stock image
Or is the joke that these are the actual people made to look like a random stock image
Dont care either way, just curious
You’re all such a bunch of bores. This is funny, I like it.
Top stuff Les and Demian. Can’t wait to see what you do here.
Random stock image
Congrats Tim & Giles, and Elaine & Jared. So much talent under one roof… or two roofs technically?
Smashing it as usual Elaine. Congrats!