28.1 C
New Delhi
Friday, March 29, 2024

303 MullenLowe Sydney names Jody Elston as Chief Strategy Officer

303 MullenLowe Sydney has appointed award-winning strategist Jody Elston as Chief Strategy Officer. Elston is tasked with 303 MullenLowe’s overall strategic capability, leading a suite of senior planners across the agency including those within its brand, CX, UX, social, and channel planning disciplines.

303 MullenLowe Sydney appoints Jody Elston chief strategy officer - AdNews
Jody Elston, Chief Strategy Officer, 303 MullenLowe

Elston has won a number of awards during her 24-year career including the 2022 Challenger Brands Effie for Great Southern Bank and a 2022 Effie for Mitsubishi Triton, the only automotive brand to win. She was also a finalist in seven other Effie categories this year alone, and in previous years has won nine Effies including three Gold and four Silver.

Previously Elston set up AJF Partnership’s strategy discipline in Melbourne and then Sydney as it rose to become one of Australia’s largest independent agencies. The start-up Sydney office was eventually reborn as Richards Rose where she went on to lead the strategic turn-around of Mitsubishi Motors, relaunch of CUA as Great Southern Bank and worked across a range of other established and emerging brands such as Stan, Helga’s, University of Adelaide, Lindt, MLC Life, eftpos, RAMS and Colorbond. She was heavily involved in the joint research partnership with The University of Sydney Business School and Richards Rose called ‘The Inspiration Code’, is on the Effie Australia Steering Committee and has also been an APG Committee Member.

303 MullenLowe Sydney Managing Director Joanna Gray said: “Jody is a planner that has a terrific track record in helping brands grow. She has helped many legacy brands rediscover their purpose and relevance and has also had great success setting up challenger brands to win, expertise that is hugely relevant to our clients. Jody will help 303 MullenLowe be a true ally to help businesses solve whatever is standing in the way of growth.

“She’s an incredible thinker, and having spoken to her about this role for some time, we know how well she will fit within our strong strategic team, and the broader 303 MullenLowe team. Her incredible track record and 24 years spent on an outstanding array of successful clients and award-winning campaigns makes this a really significant hire for the agency, and another example of how we punch above our weight. We’re incredibly excited to have her on board.”
Gray said Elston would utilise her strong leadership experience to inspire collaboration both within the Sydney agency, and the broader group, while playing an integral role within the management team.

“I’m so excited to be joining Joanna, Bart and Marque in helping to drive the next stage of growth for 303 MullenLowe and its clients. They are as passionate as I am about brands seriously standing for something and then living it through everything they do. 303 MullenLowe is already uniquely set up to do this with its creative and strategic pedigree married with its divergent skill sets of CX, media, data and technology so I can’t wait to champion bringing it all together.”

“As we move into 2023 and its anticipated economic headwinds, strong and clear thinking for brands will be more important than ever. With these hires, wins and a brilliant team of thinkers that work across all our capabilities, we feel confident about the year ahead, and our ability to give brands with ambition an unfair advantage,” Gray concluded.

303 MullenLowe has picked up a number of new clients and won several awards including two Bronze Effies for its ‘One Drink’ campaign and two Mumbrella Travel Awards for its Queens On the Edge campaign.

spot_img

Must Read

- Advertisement -spot_img

Archives

Related news

- Advertisement -spot_imgspot_img