Former Special GM Storm Day joins The Monkeys Aotearoa as new chief business officer
As flagged by CB back in October last year, The Monkeys Aotearoa, part of Accenture Interactive, has appointed Storm Day to the newly formed role of chief business officer, effective immediately.
Day joins the expanding agency from her recent position as general manager of Special New Zealand. Previous to this, she was head of marketing at one of New Zealand’s most loved food brands, Lewis Road Creamery.
Says Justin Mowday, CEO of The Monkeys Aotearoa and managing director of Accenture Interactive: “We couldn’t be more excited about Storm joining our whānau. Her passion for people and building genuine partnerships has led to the creation of some of New Zealand’s most innovative, ambitious and creatively awarded work.
“Having won ASB in September last year, followed by Meridian in October, we have formed a dream team that fuses the technology smarts of Accenture Interactive with the best creative minds.”
Adds Day: “It feels serendipitous to be working with Justin, given he sold me on the marketing and advertising industry at a career expo I attended as a student. Fast forward 20 something years later and I’m relishing the opportunity to work with Justin, chief creative officer Damon Stapleton and the incredible handpicked team at The Monkeys Aotearoa.
“I’m eager to combine Accenture Interactive’s technology and digital genius with world class creativity – it is the model of the future and will drive broader business ingenuity.”
In 2020, Day was awarded Campaign Asia Account Person of the Year and led the team that created ‘Good Morning World’, New Zealand’s most effective and awarded work for Tourism New Zealand.
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Storm is the best, but I hear she has some rough waters to smooth over already with ASB. Doesnt sound like it is off to a dream start.
At this point however, you cannot blame agency, only client.
How come we’ve seen nothing so far from the place?
This is so well deserved. Go Storm.
Well done Monkeys. Storm’s a superstar.
What a coup for monkeys, special will be gutted.
One of the most well loved and respected people in the industry. Great move.
So good to see the industry promoting women who deserve to be celebrated. Well done Storm. Well done Monkeys.
This is EPIC news! Storm is cream of the crop and The Monkeys are lucky to have her! Sheeesh some exciting things to come for this agency!
Huge move! Storm is the cream of and The Monkeys are lucky to have her! Sheeeesh some exciting things to come from this agency!
Great bold move Storm. They’re lucky to have you.
A very healthy storm in 2022
They only just friggin opened dumb ass. What have you done in the last few months?
Nice work Storm. Great move.
The industry superstar. Nice hire Monkeys.
Well done Storm, and so well deserved.
Most exciting suit joins most exciting agency.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person. Congrats Storm and Monkeys.
They opened 4 months ago. In that time I’ve done plenty. And not just press releases.
ASB was won for them by the Monkeys AUS (they said so themselves). Then they lost the Z Energy and TNZ pitches. They’ve won Meridian all by themselves. So that’s 1 from 4 for the most exciting agency in NZ.
The Monkeys didnt actually come first in the ASB pitch or so the story goes.
They wanted to go with CHEP but agency politics got in the way of them opening an Auckland office to service them.
I give it 18 months til they back up for pitch.
Apparently their direct/CRM output has been poor…more to come on this
There is a Proximity office in Auckland?
Its rank that people use an individuals PR release to tear down an agency that has existed for 4 months, 3 of which were in lockdown.
Exciting news Storm! No doubt you will smash it.
If you choose to endlessly self love all over the blog you’re bound to attract some flies.
And everyone at Proximity have wacky hair cuts. Why wouldn’t anyone want to work there? Oh hang on…
They are great at pushing gardening
So you’re saying when someone is being celebrated for a promotion and the story receives comments of praise and positivity (presumably because people want to encourage and build them up and want to help them succeed), that it’s fair others make bitchy and nasty comments and try and pull them down? What a great point of view you have…