People Moves

Havas Media names chief planning officer for North America

Jackie Lyons will fill the newly created position, after working for the agency in the U.K.

Blue Ant makes changes to its Media Pulse team

The company has promoted the VP of partnerships, as well as hired two new executives.

PHD taps UM’s Erica Kokiw as its new president

The exec takes over from Caroline Moul, who was named president of Creo Canada this week.

Caroline Moul named president of Creo Canada

The move comes after more than 22 years at PHD, including six as president.

People Moves: Canadian Tire bolsters media team

Meanwhile, Byron Bookbinder is promoted to group sales director at GumGum.

David Rusli tapped to be CSO at Wavemaker

The move comes after spending nearly six years at Publicis.

Media check-in: What is Robert Jenkyn up to at Horizon Media?

His agency is betting on sports and influencer marketing, while encouraging teams to get certified across digital.

Cuts hit The Telegram and its 150-year-old printing press

After being acquired by Postmedia last month, the paper cut nearly 30% of its newsroom.

Jolt expands its team ahead of Canadian launch

The electric vehicle charging station company has named a new VP of real estate.

Signal Hill promotes Paul Riismandel to president

Jeff Vidler will continue as founder and strategic advisor of the podcast research company.

People Moves: Promotions abound at Horizon, OMD, and Environics Analytics

Teresa Sinopoli moves into the role of chief product officer of the marketing services company.

Lotame launches Curation to help brands find their audience

The platform offers trusted inventory across every format, device and channel, to ensure advertisers can increase performance and efficiency.

Havas Media Canada appoints new president

Louise Simkin was a partner in performance marketing, technology and analytics at Noise Digital.

Vividata appoints new VP research and development

Kevin Clowes was most recently the analytics lead for GroupM Nexus.

Corus adds Barb McKergow to leadership team as Greg McLelland departs

The company confirmed the role of EVP and chief revenue officer has been eliminated amid ongoing layoffs.