The Monkeys Melbourne promotes new creative directors; hires three new creatives
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After winning a significant amount of new business during 2020, The Monkeys, part of Accenture Interactive, is growing with new hires and promotions.
Melbourne based senior creative team, Joe Sibley (above right) and Hugh Gurney (above left), have been promoted to joint creative directors. Similarly, Connor Beaver (bottom right) has been promoted to creative director with Scott Zuliani (bottom left), his associate creative director.
Says Ant Keogh, CCO, The Monkeys Melbourne: “It’s a wonderful thing to be able to promote four talented and trusted creatives from within the building, people that have been with us pretty much since the inception of the Melbourne office, or in Hugh’s and Scott’s case, before that, in the Sydney office. These guys have always acted as leaders when it came to the work, so it’s nice, as the office grows, to set it in place officially.”
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Michelle Canning (left) and Ben Horewood (right), formerly at Cummins&Partners, will join Monkeys Melbourne in the new year.
Says Keogh: “We can’t wait to see this lovely and talented team in the new year. We might even see them in actual real life, if we’re lucky.”
Says Canning and Horewood: “We’re super excited to join the Monkeys, we made a bunch of funny quotes but they didn’t get selected.”
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Olivia Nicholson (above), the 2020 Award School national winner, also starts in the new year.
Says Keogh: “When I saw Oli’s Award School work earlier this year it really stood out to me, not just in terms of this year but for a number of years seeing award school books. So I’m thrilled she’s finally made it down to Melbourne.”
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Legends.
Well done lads. Great men for the job
Classic photo J&H.
Well done to all. But particularly well done to Scott for his glorious hair. It’s beautiful.
All well deserved. Good one guys and girls.
Glad my photos made it in. Congrats Ben and Shell
Ben and Michelle are fantastic creatives!!!! Great catch for the Monkeys
good folk. good solid folk.good melbourne folk.
What a wonderful of a way to end the year.
There a good bunch
Good news all round. Exciting to see some continued growth from the Monkeys down south.
Agree. How dare they hire men.
Don’t they know they’re only supposed to hire females now?
It’s nice to see that Monkeys Melbourne is finally hiring some women in the creative department.
They’ll have lots of male CDs to help them find their way around.
Well deserved all of youse.
It’s not wrong to bring up the diversity (or lack of it) discussion in this forum.
Because time and time again hiring announcements do appear to be very one note.
No doubt everyone mentioned above is very talented, but I urge all industry leaders to dig a bit deeper and try harder to find more diverse talent. Not only will it benefit the work, it’s what clients are demanding on a global scale. Having said that, I imagine as an Accenture entity The Monkeys would have already been given a mandate to increase diversity in their agency, so I’m sure it’s already happening.
Maybe we can give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that Ant and his team applied the diversity principle to thinking as opposed to biology. Which in an advertising sense is much more valuable than merely putting people in positions based on skintone and gender?
That’s a cop out.
‘Diverse thinking’ is price of entry into a creative department. Diversity in a department in regard to gender, ethnicity and sexuality is completely different. Muddying the waters is simply a way of avoiding the issue.
Gay = diverse
Woman = diverse
you CANNOT and don’t have to tick ever single diversity box every single time.
I love you Joe and Hugh
No surprises here! Talent being rewarded for a forkin great work. Big love to Gibley! x
Go Joe go Joe go Joe!
And connerbb.
Congratulations, good humans! Very well deserved.
Go Scotty Z! So well deserved!!
Best tutors ever xo
Congrats Hugh and Joe!!
Or, you know, you could just hire the best people for the job.
(I think you’ll also find these hires are more diverse than you think).