BWM bolsters creative departments in its Sydney and Melbourne offices with six new appointments
Spring has brought in a wave of fresh faces at BWM’s offices with the hiring of six new creatives for its offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
BWM Sydney’s department is harnessed by Rob Belgiovane as chief creative officer who has created a new role on the Sydney team.
Young creative talent, Tom Manion, jumps from his role as creative director at Jack Morton Worldwide after three years working in Australia and Asia to take on a role as creative director digital, activation experiential at BWM. Manion specialises in digital, social and experiential with extensive experience with local and international brands.
Melbourne’s creative department overseen by executive creative director Murray White, saw five new additions including creative team Garret Fitzgerald and Joe Hill who are stepping into senior roles from BMF Melbourne.
Before joining forces 12 months ago, they had individually completed stints at some of Australia’s most iconic agencies including BMF Sydney, Clemenger BBDO, The Campaign Palace and Ogilvy. Between them they have awards from One Show, MADC and Sirens, as well as two Cannes Young Lions wins and a listing in B&T’s top 30 under 30.
Cam McMillan’s career has moved him from his native New Zealand via AWARD School and on to Brisbane to work for Clemenger BBDO. Now making the switch to BWM Melbourne, the art director brings excellent experience to the new team with recent work including some impressive projects for Virgin Australia and Gold Coast Tourism.
Other additions to the Melbourne team are a junior team from top of their class in AWARD School. James Croxford graduated first in AWARD school and Adam Slater was third.
Croxford comes from Mustard Creative Agency and is taking on an art director role at BWM while Slater will work as a copywriter after working in-house at Intrepid Travel for the past three years.
Says Belgiovane: “BWM has been re-engineering our creative teams to ensure we’re continuing to deliver our clients cutting edge, fresh ideas from some of the brightest creative minds in the industry. We are very excited about the new talent and look forward to integrating their expertise to deliver some cracking new projects in the year ahead.”
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Go white dudes!
SHAPING!
poor bastards
Shot J.Crox. Shot so damn good.
Ive got a beard, can I have a job?
Nice Tommy!
Go white beardy dudes.
I went for a jobs there, but sadly I didn’t have any groovy facial hair so they didn’t give me a job.
Why didn’t they give Joe a seat? We would have given you something to sit on Joe.
Well done Garret!! You are a gentleman, a scholar and a supporter of a soon to be defeated football team.
So they retrench a bunch of people then roll in with the new creatives?
Love me some cultural diversity.
Are they all related?
Very easy to point fingers at Cultural Diversity or lack of, (funny no one has an issue on gender) but you can not blame the agency. I don’t know any of these guys, but the agency’s job is to employ the best people for the role. I don’t want a role because of my ethnicity, I want it because I am the best candidate. It’s up to the industry to encourage diversity at grass roots.
babes
That Hill bloke’s got talent.
Good luck Joe.
Look at Fitzy! He’s livin’ the dream.
Nice one geeza!!
Great work Garret… Smart appointment BWM
Bearded White Men
So, six new chances for creative roles, and there were no women or minorities who may have qualified for the positions?
Interesting to know who did the search and how many candidates they considered. Betting it was a white male, maybe bearded as well, but still, male and white we’re guessing.
When did advertising become this?
It is quite possible that only rich white boys (and, occasionally, girls) enjoy the perfect alignment of familial financial support, university education, rent-free central-city at-home living, rampant self-belief, shameless bravado and fresh-faced naivety that an internship at an advertising agency requires. That’s a pretty steep barrier to entry for many ‘diverse’ people.
I feel discriminated.
Garret, you left your Monaro in the car park again.
OMG I LOVE DIS BAND XXXXXXxx
They couldn’t pay me enough to ever go back to that place, even though Telstra has left the building.
They couldn’t pay me enough to ever go back to that place, even though Telstra has left the building.
Agree whole-heartedly, re. sentiments around no diversity, but without seeing the other candidates how can we judge the agency? They can only select from the pool available.
Your bet on a bearded white male doing the search will probably pay dividends but not much, as this was probably the case, again it’s a reflection on the industry and society.
I’m a half bred “olivy” skinned male, with a face that gets way too itchy for a beard, below average income parents, and I have been in the game for 18 years. At the end of the day that adds to little when I send my CV off. What counts is the individual and what they can bring. I hire on that and 80% of the time I have had good talent.
Going on your theory the Australian Cricket Team should have an Australian born Chinese pair open the batting, an Australian born Vietnamese leg spinner etc.
or
Should they simply pick the best team from the available pool?
The issue is relevant, the blame is misdirected.
And if I have misinterpreted your comments and your trying to make the same point as myself, then maybe we can be minority friends.
I truly hope that our industry never stoops to the level where agencies find themselves having to hire based on what the photo will look like on Campaign Brief. Don’t be so shallow, I’m sure these guys were hired based on their merit and not their gender, cultural background or ability to grow a beard. We’re not like that, are we?
You only ever have one, maybe two token chicks in a creative department. Just enough so you can wheel them out when clients ask ‘where are the women?’.
You know its true!
is that how you pick the seniors by density of beard?
If by ‘this’, you mean a boy band, it always has been.
@impartial observer, i agree completely. no creative director is going to hire a creative just to satisfy someone’s idea of a diversity quota. they’re going to hire the best talent that can do the best work. if they don’t they’re just making their own jobs harder for themselves. plain and simple.
Well done Garret!!!
And wolverines make good house pets.
Nice one Garret.
Maybe white bearded guys just ARE better at advertising. Same as women are better mothers than men, and men are better fathers than women. Or how supermodels are generally not fat, and pie-eating-contest-winners are.
Honestly, get life haters, and stop ragging on some really talented guys. They’ve obviously worked really hard to get where they are. Congratulations!! 😀
That’s right!!
And it’s articulate, well considered arguments like yours that offer so much evidence of the TALENT that resides in GenY for us all to see, and read.
Who wants a supermodel for a creative anyways, and yes, the beards do help write copy and design layouts, everybody knows this, or should, you haters you.
If there was a bearded woman in advertising, other than some of the older account managers of course, well the CD would have hired them too.
So there ):-(|)
Off to my pie-eating contest, if I can find one on election day.
Joe rocks! Awesome talent and humble to boot.
Having just hired a few creatives with the specific brief of finding a few girls if I could to even up the ratio, I hired two blokes.
There were literally no women out there, best or worst!
Thanks for all your feedback.
The new 2014 model will be out soon with all new options.
Boy vs bear.
arent we done with hispters?
Lambs to the slaughter
All you people moaning about diversity – really? You’re fucked in the head. What planet are you on? What business do you think you’re in? It’s about who can do the job and contribute to the culture. Plus I know Rob and if he could have found a black/hispanic/middle eastern/gay chick with a great book she’d have been in there in a flash – even faster if she was hot. Grow the fuck up you naive whingers. Mind you they do look a bit like a boy band – but that’s just more proof of BWM’s tolerance of all types. FFS, they had me in there quite a while.
Garret is awesome. Congrats!
There’s a factory somewhere popping these things out right?
One Direction weren’t available?