Mr. Kent, 43, had been a brand manager and brand development director at Unilever, working on products like Axe, Suave and Tresemmé.
He's a native New Yorker, reared in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, who studied electrical engineering at Yale University and worked in brand development for Procter & Gamble and marketing for Pepsi-Cola North America.
Her experience in branding, product development & campaign development work well in diverse industries.
Mrs. Doyle, 31, works in Greenwich, Conn., as a brand development manager for the North American unit of Unilever, the Dutch consumer products company.
Those new offerings will join R/GA services like brand development, mobile advertising, relationship marketing and social media, not to mention its digital ad work for clients like Nike and Wal-Mart.
The groom, 29, works for Union Beer, a beer distributor in Brooklyn, as a brand development manager for Greenport Harbor Brewing in Greenport, N.Y.
Realizing that a career as a restaurant sommelier would mean working evenings and weekends, she finally decided to go back to brand development.
* Extensive creative- and client-based work with Fortune 500 (Top 50) companies on multi-faceted marketing campaigns in copywriting, brand development and business strategy.
Brand development is often the last thing on the mind of an executive director of a grassroots NGOs working in a developing country.
"It works as a really strong branding tool internally," said Mary Honda, who is in charge of the company's brand development.
