Contagion celebrates senior hires

AUCKLAND, Today: Contagion founder/ceo Dean Taylor has announced the appointment of Oliver Maisey as ECD, and Rebecca Lloyd in the newly created position of GM of Contagion Media.

Maisey previously ran his own creative consultancy, The Bay Project.He’s ex Augusto, Ogilvy, and McCann Sydney.

Taylor said: “Both Ollie and Rebecca bring fantastic experience and smarts to the table; we knew straight away they were the people to take the agency to further success.

“We have a fully integrated media, marketing and creative proposition for our clients, and they have an absolute passion for holistic thinking that gives our clients solutions that see the bigger picture.”

Rebecca Lloyd has over 20 years of NZ agency experience, most recently at OMD for six years, where she managed a broad portfolio of clients including AA Insurance, Asahi & Beiersdorf.

“Dean’s assembled a great team of diverse thinkers and I’m delighted to now count myself one of them.”

She said: “I’m really delighted to be joining the Contagion team. This is an exciting opportunity to help to shape and grow the Contagion Media offering as a thriving independent and to have a real impact on the work for clients and, ultimately, on client business results.”

Oliver Maisey is an international award winner, several times over, with 30 years’ experience in multinationals, social agencies, and production agency hybrids.

Maisey said: “I’ve been a fan of Contagion’s modern world marketing approach – cunningly blending business solutions with creative ones – for a good while now. Dean’s assembled a great team of diverse thinkers and I’m delighted to now count myself one of them’.

Dean Taylor: “Over the last 12 months our new client wins have just been phenomenal, these include: Toitu, Good George Brewing, Kernel Wealth, Hafele, Thermomix, NZ On Air  and IMS Projects.

“These are great additions to our existing client base of fantastic, New Zealand companies who have commissioned new work to run both here and globally.”

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