We have just completed an intimate foundation gathering of the Lowe Digital Community in London. The gathering was attended by a select group of digital experts from the key Lowe offices from around the world - Australia, UK, USA, Sweden, Germany, Singapore, China, Canada, France, South Africa and India. Also in attendance were Steve Gatfield, Lowe Global CEO. Tony Wright, Lowe Global Chairman and Kevin Allen, Lowe Global Vice President. The main purpose of the gathering was to strengthen our digital offering to all our current and future clients. Over the three days we produced solid strategies for how we work on local and global clients, shared knowledge from the global offices and built a digital community of experts which we can call on at any time. It was attended by our Head of Interactive, Mark Ashley-Wilson who will be a key member within the global group.

Some of the group are pictured below.

Kevin Allen’s presentation below.

Our producer Charna Henry has traveled to so many odd countries that the CIA suspects her of being an Al-Qaeda operative. But her mission is much more innocent than that. You see Charna collects gastric infections. Her next trip is to Brazil where she hopes to contract Strongyloides stercoralis and a few rare Amazonian hook worms. Go Charna!

It is said that the golden age of sixteenth century Poland was begun with the birth of a perfect child. 500 years later, Aleksandra Pawelek was born in Krakow and the whole country again held hands and prepared themselves for a new golden age to lift Poland out of it’s never-ending economic crisis. But then Michael from FBI Recruitment placed a call and we poached Aleks away to Australia to be our Account Manager. Sorry Poland.

Tony O’Halloran has left BBDO Clemenger to join the senior team driving Lowe’s revitalisation in the Australian and international ad market.

Tony joins ECD Dave Johnson and Head of Account Service Joan Lind as the third senior executive we have recently put on.

The move will see a reunion between O’Halloran and Lind, who joined Lowe Hunt from M&C Saatchi last month. The pair worked at M&C Saatchi together for six months from late 2005.

Tony brings to Lowe Hunt 16 years of international and Australian strategic planning experience from both client and agency side. He developed and activated the strategic plan for McDonald’s response to the children’s obesity crisis in the UK, on this £50M account.

He began his career client-side with brand and marketing manager roles for blue chips such as Coca Cola, Kraft Foods, Lion Nathan and Roche.

He rocks!

Lowe Hunt has recently added another award-winning member to our team.

Joan Lind joins us from M&C Saatchi as our director of account service. Joan has already made her mark in the past couple of weeks and not just for her pink suit!

“As an agency, people are our capital investment. My role will be about making sure the right people are on the right account and adding value in terms of making sure the account management team has all the right skills” says Joan.

Welcome on board!

Staff profile of Han Lee.

Han is an outstanding designer, illustrator and animator. Armed with a degree in Visual Communication earned in Christchurch New Zealand, Han has put his skills to work on mobile and online games, web design, interactive campaigns, and advanced mandarin peeling.

Working at Lowe / Rivet, Han has contributed to interactive projects for Football Federation Australia, Genesis Energy, Nestlé, Thomson Education, and Unilever.

He rocks at - well - just being Han! We love him.