Mr. Van Wagner becomes senior client strategy manager; he had been a client manager at Rauxa.
Michael Zlatoper, director for client strategy, who is based in the San Francisco office, becomes managing director, and Eric Zuncic, director for brand strategy, who is based in the New York office, becomes head of strategy.
They are: Abha Dhakal, a client strategist; Richard Fryling, group strategy director on the Sam's Club account; and Chris Gilbert, a copywriter.
He moved to Global Radio as Agency Director before taking up his current sales director role at Primesight where he runs agency and client strategy, trading and planning.
"Businesses can either see it as a glass half-empty or a glass half-full," said Alan Mitchell, strategy director of Ctrl-Shift, a technology consultancy whose clients include the UK government.
Ms. Cook had been a brand strategy director at Mekanism.
Michael Vakulenko is the strategy director at VisionMobile.
The highlight of my career was being able to argue with our Creative Director in my first agency (so we're talking a career difference of about 15 years) that I was right in my thinking for a specific client strategy... and have the client agree with what I was proposing too.
By Wybe Sallows, Strategy Director, CODE D'AZUR .
"The cutting edge of wealth-transfer planning is mostly being done for entrepreneurs," says Stephen Kenney, director of client strategies for Pell Rudman, a private wealth manager in Boston.
