Kenny Lim
Aug 7, 2009

OgilvyOne hires Gutierrez and Courant to boost Neo@Ogilvy senior management in Singapore

SINGAPORE - OgilvyOne Singapore has appointed Ferdinand Gutierrez (pictured) and Julien Courant as general manager and media director of Neo@Ogilvy respectively.

OgilvyOne hires Gutierrez and Courant to boost Neo@Ogilvy senior management in Singapore
As general manager, Gutierrez will oversee the day-to-day operations of Neo@Ogilvy and grow its digital media operations. He replaces Damien Cummings, who is moving to another role within the network.

Gutierrez was previously regional managing director of New Media, a full-service digital advertising agency based in Bangkok. He helped to grow the agency’s digital business in Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam and led a team of 140 digital specialists.

Courant was most recently group account director at Mindshare Interaction in Paris. He has worked for Ogilvy, Mindshare and the now-defunct joint venture between the two agencies mOne in his native France for the past nine years.

Chris Riley, managing director of OgilvyOne Singapore and director for South Asia, said: “Neo@Ogilvy is growing rapidly and it is crucial that we have outstanding digital marketing and planning talents to support OgilvyOne’s clients going forward. Both Ferdinand and Julien have years of digital media experience behind them and are definitely great assets to the OgilvyOne management team.”

The latest appointments come after Susana Tsui was promoted to the newly created role of regional president for Neo@Ogilvy at the end of July .

Tsui was previously regional managing director Neo@Ogilvy.

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