City Moves for 15 August – Who’s switching jobs at Moss Bross, Mullenlowe Group and Quinn Emanuel?
Today’s City Moves includes Moss Bross, Mullenlowe Group and Quinn Emanuel.
Moss Bros
Men’s tailoring giant Moss Bros has appointed Avis Darzins (pictured) as a non-executive director, effective 1 September 2019. Moss Bros has announced also that Maurice Helfgott, in line with good corporate governance following nine years’ service, will no longer be senior independent non-executive director from 1 October 2019, when the role will be handed over to non-executive director Alex Gersh. Maurice will stay on the board until the annual general meeting in May 2020. Avis joins from Accenture, where she was for eight years as a partner focusing on the retail and consumer products sector. She delivered successful engagement with many well-known national and international brands such as Gap, where she delivered the infrastructure to enable it to launch its Banana Republic brand on to the UK high street. While also at Accenture she led numerous projects for Sainsbury’s, including shaping and leading the first phase of a performance improvement programme focused on delivering the customer promise in the retailer’s top 50 stores. Avis also founded her own management consulting practice in 2013 following four years as director of business transformation at British media and telecoms corporation Sky.
Mullenlowe Group UK
Danny Donovan has been appointed UK chief executive of Mullenlowe Mediahub – the global planning and buying arm of marketing communications network Mullenlowe Group. Starting 1 November, Danny will oversee the UK Mediahub team, which specialises in challenger brands and reinventing how to reach consumers. He will form part of the global leadership team and work closely with John Moore, global president of Mediahub, and Jeremy Hine, the chief of Mullenlowe Group UK. Danny has a career spanning 30 years in media agencies. Most recently, Danny spent almost nine years in the Mediacom UK leadership team, and has numerous awards to his name including those for IPA and Cannes.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Mark McNeill will be joining Quinn Emanuel as a partner in the business ligation and arbitration firm’s New York office. For two decades, Mark has represented firms and states in numerous commercial and investment treaty arbitrations on issues such as intellectual property, technology, nuclear construction, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, taxation, mining and insurance. Mark joins from Shearman & Sterling in London, where he was a part of the international arbitration practice. Before joining Shearman & Sterling, Mark was an attorney-adviser in the office of the legal adviser of the US Department of State, where he represented the US in investor-state arbitrations under the investment chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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