Sebastian Vizor returns to Australia to take deputy executive director role at The Royals
Following a strong new business run over the past 12 months, The Royals has expanded its creative leadership team with the appointment of Sebastian Vizor in the newly created role of Deputy ECD. For the past two years, Sebastian was Creative Director at B-Reel London
With over a decade in the industry, across London, Sydney and Amsterdam, Vizor has worked with the likes of 72&Sunny, Sid Lee, R/GA, and Clemenger BBDO; helping create integrated solutions and brand platforms for the likes of GE, Netflix and Google.
Vizor’s work has been recognised at all major international award shows but his best attribute is his passion. A big believer in the power of mentorship, he has taken an active role in mentoring AWARD School students and lecturing at Miami Ad School.
Relocating back to Australia from London, Vizor will be based in Sydney and work across both the Melbourne and Sydney offices of The Royals.
His appointment comes after a strong 12 months for the agency, during which it added 18 new clients, including Athena Home Loans, Northern Territory Government, Spotify, Australian Super and Bakers Delight. At the same time, The Royals experienced a 37% increase in headcount and grew its CX offering into a department of 18 people.
Says The Royals Creative Partner Nick Cummins: “I’m really excited that after eight years of building our agency we now are attracting talent of this calibre. Sebastian comes to us with experience from some of the best agencies around the world and I am excited to see what great things we will be able to achieve together in this next chapter for The Royals.”
Says Vizor: “I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work at The Royals. With its fresh perspective, a great set of clients and super-ambitious leadership team, they are definitely hitting their stride. It’s an immense privilege to be part of the team and I’m thrilled to get stuck in.”
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“I’m really excited that after eight years of building our agency we now are attracting talent of this calibre.” Pretty sure Nick didn’t mean it this way, but it reads as a pretty harsh call on the abilities of their previous hires.
To add to The Royals stable of white guys in senior roles. I’m sure Sebastian is lovely and talented and deserves the new job. But a little diversity in talent might lead to more diversity in the work.
How very responsible of you, White Guy.
Advertising (for the lack of a better, more descriptive word) is not one giant social experiment; there are few enough truly great creatives, regardless of hue; to pass up one in order to maintain some notional racial -or sexual- equilibrium is ridiculous. At the entry, or even mid-levels, you can mess around, but when clients have to account for outcomes to their own management, explaining that ‘at least we had three women, two Pakistanis and a Jew working on the campaign’ won’t cut it.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer Sebastian. Except maybe Guy Sebastian.
Having done a number of stints at The Royals, they have an extremely diverse talent pool across the whole agency. Filled with good people of all types, they also have one of the best cultures in the business today; which should be celebrated, not sniped at. The biggest and most unspoken form of discrimination in this industry isn’t sexism – it is ageism. It is rampant and affects both sexes. It also robs younger people of deeply skilled mentors to learn from and help shape their careers. Filling agencies with a bunch of 28 year olds isn’t going to solve that – even if they are female.
Nice work Seb. Good place to land bro.
Well done. To the unemployed female blaming ‘diversity’ for missing out on that job – my commiserations.
Sexy ass photo. Congrats ya legend!
Well done my darling – you’ve achieved sooo much – soooo proud of you! – you’re sooo handsome – have your photo as my wallpaper & contact on my phone – I love you xx 💋❤️