AFTER A SHORT STINT at McGarryBowen where he worked on the equally short-lived Bud Light account, executive creative director Mike Roe returned to Energy BBDO the start of the New Year. Roe had been with Energy BBDO for eight years, departing in February, 2012 for a top position on the Bud Light creative team. Then, last August, McGarryBowen lost the account to Translation Advertising without a review and Energy BBDO was delighted to welcome him back..
In case you missed it. Over the holidays Energy BBDO moved from Wrigley Building tenancy of nearly 80 years to the glass and steel tower at 225 N. Michigan.
COINCIDENTALLY, there is another Chicago adman by the name of Mike Roe. A versatile all-media copywriter, he joined Mbira Technologies the same time Mike Roe I returned to Energy BBDO. Roe II was formerly a writer with Notre Dame’s University Communications department and early spend nearly 15 years as CD/copy and marketing consultant with Hollywoodcopy.com.
Mbira works closely with internet retailers zZounds and SameDayMusic, specialists in audio and musical instruments. Maya Kuper, formerly with Studiomedia in Evanston, is copyeditor and merchandiser for those two companies.
MARKETING/EXPERIENTIAL AGENCY TRIS3CT promoted chief creative officer Paul Kuzma, who’s been with the agency for five of its seven years, to the new position of chief idea officer. His successor is executive creative director Chris Cancilla, who assumes leadership of the agency’s 45 creative staffers.
Cancilla joined Tris3ct 18 months ago from three years as SVP/GCD at Y&R. Earlier he’d had the same title at Arc Worldwide/Leo Burnett.
Tris3ct, known for being one of best places to work in Chicago, is one of the largest independent agencies in the US with more than 140 staffers between its new West Loop offies and L.A. branch.
WHO’S NEWS. Hilly Reps’ Hillary Herbst and Sonia Blum signed to represent New York-based The Colony in the Midwest. They are The Colony’s first US reps other than its offices in Australia, where it opened in 2010, New York and Shanghai. Its New York office recent expanded into a full service production company …
Tribeca Flashpoint 2012 recording arts grad Nick Biscardi was named a full-time engineer at sounder designer/mixer Drew Weir and EP Rise Sanders’ Vagabond Audio. He started with Vagabond as an intern in 2011 and freelanced there while completing his education.
Since launching his audio career, Biscardi has produced/engineered for local artists, such as Jess Godwin, The Zero Years and Rocket Miner, where he’s the band’s drummer and performed live mixing and lighting at many venues, including Lincoln Hall, Schuba’s and Double Door , among other sound and film-related activities.
Richter Studios named award-winning salesman Eric M. Schmidt VP/new business development and client relations of the script to screen production company.
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