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TBWA\Chiat\Day Announces Raft of Promotions in Broadcast Department
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- TBWA\Chiat\Day today announced the
promotion of a select group of Senior Producers to Executive Producers.
"The promotion of these three individuals is testament to the years of
creative and management excellence they have contributed to the Broadcast
Department and our agency," said Richard O'Neill, Head of Broadcast Production
at TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles.
Anh-Thu Le has been producing for 14 years. Her career highlights include
the Apple Brand campaign; International Olympic Committee commercials for
Sydney's 2000 Summer Games and 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games; and the
Nissan Altima launch. For the last three years as Senior Producer, she has
managed and produced commercials and content for PlayStation, including the
launch of PlayStation PS3's "White Room" brand campaign; the PSP "Dustball"
animation campaign; and numerous software titles for PS2, PSP and PS3. Other
clients she has worked with include Infiniti, Samsonite, Mars,
Bridgestone/Firestone and Limited Too.
Michelle Burke has been producing for 17 years. Her career highlights
include the Energizer "Benny the Bunny" and "Sightings" campaigns; the award-
winning Sunkist "Pistachio" commercials; the Taco Bell "Chihuahua" launch; the
Apple iMac launch with Jeff Goldblum; Jimmy Dean's first "Sun" campaign; the
Nissan Sentra "Waterfight" and Nissan Xterra "Hirshberg" commercials, as well
as currently managing and producing Visa. She's also brought many awards to
the agency, including a Cannes Gold Lion, One Show, D&AD, Art Directors Club
and Clios.
Guia Iacomin has been producing for 22 years. For 15 years Guia was
Director of Broadcast Production at TBWA\Hunt Lascaris in South Africa, where
she helped bring that agency many top international awards including a Cannes
Gold Lion, a Clio Hall of Fame for the BMW commercial "Mouse," One Show and
D&AD. As a Senior Producer at TBWA\Chiat\Day, Guia helped the PlayStation
group win the coveted Purple Chair award for the Internet film "Giantology."
Most recently Guia has been praised for her excellent work producing the
Pedigree "Adoption" campaign.
TBWA\Chiat\Day is part of TBWA Worldwide. TBWA Worldwide (www.tbwa.com)
creates Disruptive ideas for global clients, including ABSOLUT, adidas, Apple,
Beiersdorf, Henkel, Infiniti, Mars, McDonald's, Michelin, Nissan, Pernod
Ricard, Pioneer, Samsonite, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Airlines and
Sony PlayStation. TBWA is one of the fastest-growing networks in the Top-ten,
and was named by ADWEEK as Global Agency Network of the Year and the most-
awarded Agency Network by Creativity magazine in 2007. TBWA has 258 offices in
75 countries, and approximately 9,700 employees worldwide.
Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com). Omnicom is a
leading global advertising, marketing and corporate communications company.
Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising,
strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct
and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications
services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.