Havas Media Group moves Francis Coady to CMO role
May 6, 2021 7:00
Havas Media Group has named Francis Coady as its chief marketing officer. Coady is the latest in a series of leadership changes in the media business.
Coady joined the business five years ago to establish Havas Sport and Entertainment, which attracted clients Bupa, Gillette, LG, NRMA, CGU, Virgin, Red Bull as clients under his leadership.
Virginia Hyland and Francis Coady
In August last year, Havas Media acquired Virginia Hyland’s independent media agency, Hyland, becoming a separate division of the Havas Media Group. Hyland was installed as the CEO two months later, taking over from Matt Houltham who exited the Havas Group.
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Havas Media appoints Danni Dimitri as Sydney head of strategy
March 4, 2021 7:00
Danni Dimitri has been promoted to the role of head of strategy, Sydney at Havas Media Group. Dimitri has been at the agency since 2018.
Bringing 13 years of industry experience, Dimitri previously held the title of group strategy director, and has also spent time with OMD Australia, Sibling Agency, Ikon Communications, and PHD among others.
L-R: Virginia Hyland, Danni Dimitri, Mike Wilson
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“Danni has driven value for clients time and again through her proven ability to discover what unlocks ideas that influence audiences to act.
“We’re so pleased to be promoting from within, seeing her hard work and strategic expertise being recognised with this promotion.”
While Nunn isn’t interested in the ‘independents versus holding companies’ proposition – “I think it’s more about good businesses” – he’s watched the pool of indies expand and contract over the years.
“There’s not too much that has happened in this industry that I haven’t seen over the 18 years,” he says.
“There’s been a lot of independents come and go. Some sell out, people come back and all of a sudden there’s people in holding companies that leave the holding companies and start up their own independents and some work, some don’t work.”
There’s a big difference between those that work and those that don’t, according to Nunn: scale. He acknowledges that “getting scale in the media agency scene in Australia [as an independent] is extremely difficult”.