Red Agency announces three hires following new business wins in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane

August 19 2011, 10:53 am | BY Lynchy | 1 Comment

Red Agency has announced the appointment of three new staff on the back of a volume of new business wins across its three offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.  The agency has won more than 12 new accounts over the past two months.

Angela McCann joins Red Agency Sydney later this month as an associate director. McCann has 10 years experience in consumer PR, with a focus on retail, fashion and beauty brands. She has held both in-house and agency roles. Her in-house experience includes being senior publicist at David Jones, PR Manager at News International and working as a consultant at Westfield.  Her agency experience includes working with brands such as Telstra, Toyota, Cloudy Bay Wines, Ella Bache, Esprit, Montblanc, Fitness First and Thalgo.

Sam Watson joins Red in Melbourne as an account manager. Watson has experience in the corporate, consumer and not-for-profit sectors in the UK and Australia. He handled the media management of the Australian Open Golf – both men’s and women’s for the past two years, the Sailing World Cup at Sandringham and managing the Etihad Stadium, Spirit of Tasmania and Save the Children accounts. During his time as a consultant in the UK where, he worked previously with Red Agency general manager James Wright, and worked on campaigns for British Telecom, McDonald’s, the RSPCA and UK Transplant.

Samantha Gavin joins as an account manager, also in Melbourne, from Sustainability Victoria where she was a communications consultant. She has previously worked with the Department of Health as a project officer and with Victoria Police as a communications adviser in the Strategic Communications Unit.

 

Red Agency’s recent wins include:

In Sydney – Launching NavGuard in Australia, a supplier of modern GPS navigation and tracking technology for BlackBerry, iPhone and Android; janusNET, which provides practical, cost effective Data Security and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) systems; and, London & Partners, the official promotional agency for London.

red agency.jpgIn Melbourne – DuPont Sustainable Solutions; Motorclassica, Australia’s largest vintage and classic car show; Hilton Melbourne South Wharf; Korean PVR maker Humax; rehydration product manufacturer Hydralyte; The South Australian Government; and, World AIDS Day Dinner.

In Brisbane – MEX, Australia’s leading asset maintenance software company; and, Polaris, a green investment firm in Italy, which is looking to get Australians interested in investing in renewable energy.

Says Red Agency’s general manager James Wright:  “With the arrival of Angela, Sam and Samantha, all experienced practitioners with quite different backgrounds, we are looking to continue to build a team of people that want to challenge conventional PR thinking. We look forward to working with them on our growing client list.”

Wright also puts down the success to Red Agency’s digital credentials, he continues: “Our digital PR expertise has also been a critical factor in pitches. Every agency claims to be experts in social media these days but there is no substitute for being able to showcase tangible examples where we have measurably changed how a group thinks or interacts with a brand.”