M&C Saatchi Sydney appoints Matt Ennis, Nev Fordyce, Blake Arthur and Steve Hanzic
M&C Saatchi Sydney’s creative stocks has received a major boost with the appointment of four talented and proven operators.
Nev Fordyce has been hired as senior creative from BMF where he was the head of interaction design. Fordyce will partner with Steve Hanzic who has come across from M&C Saatchi’s digital and production business Make as senior art director.
Fordyce worked across BMF’s full roster, including ALDI, MLA, Lion, and Carnival, creating consumer experiences and driving integrated creative across the diverse portfolio.
His reel boasts a bunch of notable work, including the ‘Beef Oracle’ and ‘Lambnesia’ for MLA, ‘Be Free Earthlings’ for P&O, Lion’s ‘The Beer Pilgrim’, ‘ALDI Lunchbox’ and CommBank’s ‘Investorville’.
Hands on digital-specialist Hanzic is a veteran of a number of award-winning M&C Saatchi campaigns, including: Optus ‘Cleverbuoy’, the first work to feature Google Cube to launch the Presets new album for Google Play, the ‘Wallet Run’ game and ‘Credit Cards’ for CommBank plus Stonefields’ ‘Bad Reality’ interactive Film Clip.
Joining them at 99 Macquarie St is duo Blake Arthur (Copy) and Matt Ennis (Art) who have built up a four-year partnership at first BWM then Ogilvy Sydney.
The pair have worked on numerous campaigns, including KFC’s ‘Stop and Smell the Chicken’, Coca-Cola global, Weet-Bix and Yellow Pages.
Independently Arthur has produced work for Sony and Toyota while Ennis worked on the award-winning Red Cross ‘Make Nuclear Weapons the Target’ campaign plus work for Telstra, Simplot and Voiceless.
Says Ben Welsh, executive creative director, M&C Saatchi: “Their work speaks for their talent but more importantly they’re mad keen to make their mark. Our clients will love them.”
Says Fordyce: “It’s an exciting year to be arriving at M&C Saatchi. Ben has laid out a solid vision on how M&C Saatchi plans to build on some great success, as the industry continues to innovate. I’m looking forward to working with some of the brightest minds, and contributing to the weight of such a strong agency.”
In the past two weeks M&C Saatchi has won the B&T Grand Prix Agency of the Year and Employer of the Year Awards in addition to Campaign Asia Pacific’s Australian Agency of the Year title. In October it was ranked 2nd on BRW’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in Australia list.
(Pictured L-R: Matt Ennis, Nev Fordyce, Blake Arthur and Steve Hanzic)
23 Comments
Way to go Hanzic, you da man!
M&C didn’t win for any of it’s work.
You know, the thing you do.
Clemenger BBDO in Melbourne had campaign after campaign up on the screen.
I feel like it was a weird choice for B&T.
Winning business is good. But surely it has to be about what you actually DO on those pieces of business?
Well done lads! Go Nev!
Matt & Blake are awesome. Enjoy boys!
Clems are a very old fashioned player competing in a two horse town.M&cC are the polar opposite.Watch their trajectory continue in 2015.
you wouldn’t be a recruiter with a vested interest would you Maven?
Boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Congrats Matt! Well done.
All the way Matt & Blake
When did Blake buy a shirt?
Onya Blake. Crushin it!
They still had all the work up on screen where M&C had none.
They were competing against M&C in more than a two horse town and beat them.
Just a thought. But the work has to get better. Yes they are formidable at pitching but the work is a B+ at the moment, consistently.
Killed it Nev!
Nev is a genius. You’re a genius, Nev. You’ll smash it there mate. Good luck to you and the three other fine gentlemen.
One Direction in a few more years
M&C accepts what bmf rejects
Onya Nev!
A message to Hey Maven.
Take second look.
M&C Saatchi’s work for Combank was a finalist in Campaign of the Year.
One of four.and beaten not by Clems but DDB Melb.
One final point.Clems can never claim the creative high ground you think they deserve until their sydey product improves dramatically.
This has been the thorn in their side for decades.
Legends. Every single one of you. Feuer frei!
Congrats Matt and Blake. Couldn’t be more deserved.
Everyone knows M&C stands for Merkins & Crapola, unless they’ve never worked there. So ease up on the Clems Melbourne talk.
If Commbank is what you’re holding up as work M&C can be proud of then you’re just reinforcing all the negative M&C comments on this page. That work is far from world class. The fact it was a finalist in any category is shameful and an idication of what a mediocre year it’s been in Aussie advertising.
Blake work Blake. Good Blake in your new Blake.