People Moves

Cairns Oneil taps Devon MacDonald as new president
The indie agency aims to use its new leader’s digital expertise to help drive further growth.

Former Walmart exec to lead ACA’s measurement initiative
Jennifer Holgate will lead Canadian efforts as part of a bigger, global pursuit of a cross-media measurement solution.

Quebecor names new digital advertising lead
Renaud Langlois will lead programmatic and DOOH teams as the company continues on its roadmap for innovation.

People Moves: Toronto Star adds four to leadership team
Plus, PR firm Zeno is growing its paid media team and Wavemaker makes another North American leadership appointment.

Cossette Media makes a trio of senior appointments
New VPs in business leadership, performance and digital aim to help prepare clients for emerging needs.

Publicis names David Rusli chief strategy and data officer
The agency has combined its data and strategy capabilities as one business function to take a more human view on analytics.

Hivestack names new VP of global marketing
Kira LeBlanc has been elevated to bring the programmatic company’s global strategy to the 17 markets where it operates.

HBC hires new paid media lead
Doron Dinovitzer is going client side after a year at Horizon.

Dentsu hires a trio of new VPs
The new additions will provide leadership across the group’s agencies in three key practice areas.

Pointsbet taps Scott Vanderwel for CEO
Hiring the former Rogers exec paves the way for Pointsbet to start offering single-sports betting service in Canada once Bill C-218 is official.

ICYMI: TD adds Toronto Ultra to its roster
Plus, Quantcast hires a chief privacy officer, Lactalis partners with fintech mobile wallet platform WhatRock and the NFL and Twitter expand their partnership.