Galluzzo to depart @radical.media
CB can reveal that after almost eight productive and happy years at @radical.media, managing director Rob Galluzzo has resigned and will be leaving sometime next month to pursue other interests.
@radical’s worldwide chief Jon Kamen flew into Sydney from New York on Friday to reassure the Sydney office that Galluzzo’s departure was entirely amicable and it would be business as usual, with Galluzzo’s duties being undertaken by senior staffers, at least in the short term.
Kamen told CB on Friday evening that Galluzzo had been been a key player in transforming the company into a multinational producer of commercials, TV shows, feature films,documentaries, music videos, animation, motion graphics, design,photography and games. The company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Shanghai and Sydney.
The company has been honored with an Academy Award, Emmys, a Golden Globe, Grammys, Webbys, The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Communication Design, and two Palme d’Ors at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
Galluzzo has helped build @radical’s globalreputation in entertainment, with executive producer credits on two newseries on pay TV and free-to-air channels.
Galluzzotold CB: “My decision to resign was not an easy one. The time has comefor me to begin building something new that I have a stake in. There isgreat work to be done with both traditional TVC ‘s and long formcommunication; for me, the key is that all projects should be directordriven. The team that I am leaving is second to none. I know they willall continue with success.”
Formerly with Young& Rubicam Sydney, Galluzzo worked his way up from ‘despatch boy’ toHead of TV and member of the board. Successes include the relaunch ofFoxtel and campaigns for Colgate Palmolive, Jim Beam and Mitsubishi.@radical.media then poached Galluzzo as their executive producer andthree and a half years later he was appointed to the top job.
Heis keenly interested in all areas of his industry, working with SPAAand the AFA, including AdSchool, and has been on various judgingcommittees such as AWARD, The Gongs, Adfest and Dubai Lynx.
17 Comments
holy shit. big news.
Handsome.
so….he is going to set up another prod. co with some of the directors from Radical…?.
Another multi national agency???
Game Changer!
Interesting. He’s one of the good ones.
How baby learn?
Proof that @Radical is just another big multinational corporation.
Now they are faceless.
So is this the end of Reality TV @ Radical?
CONGRATS GALLUZZO!!!
“Transforming the company” indeed.
Exit Jeff Darling, Bruce Hunt, The Glue Society, and enter reality tv and Six Beers of Separation.
leave your ‘Start ya bastard’ cans. They may need it.
Best of luck you Italian Stallion!!!
Sooner or later everyone needs toilet paper. Call me
Good luck Choc. See you on the river.
6:08, can you say ‘non-compete clause’?
Maybe a year from now, but you can bet that Kamen flew into Sydney to do more than “reassure the Sydney office” . . . like offering Riggert and Hughes some very large incentives to keep them from heading for the door as well, an action that would probably spell the end of @radical in Sydney, and a final RIP for what was once the great Black under Loewn.
Chris and Patrick, Michael Ritchie’s on the line for you. Lunch in Paddington?
Ironic really that the most producer driven company in Australia, made all the more so under the current managing director, has the same leaving to create a more “director driven” opportunity.
That should get a laugh from a few directors around town.
Congrats Robbie G! You have the midas touch and will be exceptional at whatever you do! xx