The Hallway boosts integrated team with five new hires including Dylan Soopramania, Steven Hey, Josh Aitken, Mollie Whichello and Costa Fillis

Following a huge year of commercial growth, The Hallway has hired a host of new talent in the first quarter of 2013 including creative team Dylan Soopramania and Steven Hey, Josh Aitken in senior copywriter role, Mollie Whichello in PR manager role and Costa Frillis in account director role.

These five new hires bring the team to 36, fuelled by organic growth on existing clients and new business wins including Tourism Queensland and TV1 General Entertainment, announced last week.

Says Jules Hall, managing partner at The Hallway: “It feels like we’ve been hiring non-stop for a year. And when I look around I realise that we really have been welcoming clever and creative people for months. And we’re still hiring. It’s satisfying building this talented team, even if it means we’re constantly building new desks.”

Soopramania and Hey join The Hallway from Sapient Nitro, and have rare integrated credentials from time spent at DDB, Naked and Momentum in Sydney.

Aitken has worked at several Sydney agencies including six years at Draftfcb, and will be teamed with head of art, Dave Lidster.

Fillis brings years of big brand experience to the agency and his InsuranceLine client, with long tenures at Human, DDB and GPY&R.

And fresh from sunny London, Whichello joins the agency’s burgeoning PR division, working with Louise Pogmore who joined the agency from Naked in January.

(Pictured L – R: Left to Right: Dylan Soopramania, Steven Hey, Mollie Witchello, Josh Aitken, Costa Fillis)