Olds to Head Draft’s NY Creative
John Olds has been named senior vice president and group creative director for the New York office of Draft. Olds most recently held the same post at marketing communications firm Wunderman, a division of ad conglomerate WPP. Before that, he was senior vice president and group creative director at FCBi, the digital and direct marketing arm of Foote, Cone & Belding. Draft, a division of Interpublic Group, is poised to merge with FCB by the end of this year to create the Draft FCB group.
Hennagin Managing Director at Bernstein-Rein
David Hennagin, former head of integrated direct marketing at DDB Direct Los Angeles, will take the post of senior vice president and managing director at Kansas City MO-based marketing communications firm Bernstein-Rein. Before working at DDB, Hennagin led the direct marketing group at TBWA/Chiat/Day Los Angeles.
Answers.com Hires Formentin as Ad Sales VP
Ad-supported reference Web site answers.com has signed online ad veteran Robert Formentin as its new vice president of advertising sales. Formentin previously held the same post at Advertising.com and also served as vice president of East Coast sales at 24/7 Real Media. He played a key role at Infoseek Corp. and was part of the team that launched InformationWeek in the early ‘90s.
