DDB ramps up retail department with Jordan Sky and Mark Lorrigan as joint heads of retail
DDB New Zealand’s newly revamped retail department has been revealed, featuring new top tier talent. Jordan Sky and Mark Lorrigan (pictured) will take up the newly-created joint Head of Retail positions. Jordan joins DDB from Draft FCB where he is lead creative on Westfield and also works on the Noel Leeming Group account. Prior to Draft FCB Jordan spent three years at Saatchi and Saatchi. Lorrigan and Sky were partners at Saatchi’s on Telecom, House of Travel, Toyota and KFC.
Natalie Lowe (pictured, left) recently joined as Senior Account Director on TheWarehouse business, bringing with her an impressive track record in theindustry.She spent a year at Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney managing blue chip accounts such as Nestle, Toyota General Mills and Lion Nathan, followed by another four years at DraftFCB directing accounts including Pascoes, Avis and Noel Leeming Group.
Creative team Michelle Rajalingam and Raymond McKay round off the new faces. They have worked on Farmers, Superliquor, Westpac, Air New Zealand and New World at 99.
DDB Group ECD Toby Talbot says: “I’m really stoked to be reunited with Mark and Jordan again whom I last worked with at Saatchi three years ago. They are the consummate retail team. Mark has already made a significant impact with a number of our clients in the five months he’s been here on contract. Mark, of course, is no stranger to the place having previously worked at DDB for seven years. Everyone loves having him back.”
“At the same time,” added Talbot, “Raymond McKay and Michelle Rajalingam from 99 are joining us. They are an exciting team. Their work is fresh, full of ideas and testament to the fact that retail is not about the lowest common denominator. It’s exciting to have a really strong retail offering sitting amongst the DDB brand creatives.”
DDB Group CEO Sandy Moore says that DDB’s retail arm is going from strength to strength.
“With a client list including The Warehouse, SKY TV, McDonald’s, Watties and New Zealand Lotteries, our retail expertise is well honed and very highly regarded as delivering creative, impactful solutions for our clients.”
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lovely photo and a great team…best of luck.
You boys couldn’t stay away from each other. Awesome news.
Best of luck to both of you fullas.
Where Kim Ellison?
She still at DDB?
Did she retire?
all this because they just had to pitch for The Warehouse. only a matter of time till you lose it boys, especially with that bird thing you bought back.
1:44. Three negative comments in two poorly constructed sentences. Nice work.
So Stop Press is reporting this morning that Cadbury has gone, others report long faces at Saatchi on Friday. What’s the real story team?
7:51 Semi-retired. I am getting on a bit.
This press release is so full of shit it’s hard to decide what to start commenting on.
Maybe with the comment at the end. “DDB’s retail arm is going from strength to strength.”
Bwwwwwhahahahahahahaha! The only one who believes that is the man who made the comment.
mark lorrigan is my hero
Careful they don’t do what they did a Saatchis and drag every client down into the retail mud.
Can you post some of their best work together?
Having worked with them at saatchis can’t believe the last comment made. There were a lot of issues at saatchis, Jordan and Mark weren’t one of them.
agencies don’t “drag clients down into the retail mud” – realities do.
9:23
I don’t know but DDB were out celebrating something on Friday.
Thanks 1.46. NBR is now reporting that they have indeed held it.
Two great blokes to work with. Enough said.
Stop Press is wrong.
Nice one guys, it’s great to see you back together. DDB are lucky people.
Nicely done boys. You’ll rock the place!
I don’t know anything about Jordan Sky (cool name) but Mark Lorrigan is crap – at cooking.