Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand announces raft of new hires to its creative team

(Pictured L-R: L-R: Tim Yates, Kat Tadaki, Claire Herselman, Gina Morgan, Josh Stuart, Eliza Romanos)

Over the last few months Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand has been snaring, luring, and even nabbing creative talent to join their team to help with their expanded client list. The hires have added three new creative teams to Saatchi’s line-up.

These appointments include Tim Yates – senior art director, Josh Stuart – senior copywriter, Claire Herselman – senior copywriter, Kat Tadaki – senior art director, Gina Morgan – art director, and Eliza Romanos – copywriter.

Tim Yates and Josh Stuart both joined from Y&R Auckland. Previously at DDB Aotearoa for five years, Yates recently returned from a 7-year stint at Saatchi & Saatchi Melbourne. Stuart has previously worked in Europe for five years and before that, at Clemenger in Wellington.

Claire Herselman joins from a stint locally with The Monkeys, having returned last year from Sydney where she had been at Ogilvy & Mather. Herselman is joined by Kat Tadaki, returning to Saatchi & Saatchi with 10 years of experience from her time at DDB, Clemenger and Colenso.

Gina Morgan and Eliza Romanos most recently joined the Saatchi & Saatchi team, who in their three years at Colenso, worked on some much-loved award-winning projects, collecting the Emerging Talent at AXIS 2020.

Says Steve Cochran, CCO, Saatchi & Saatchi: “We’re feeling as stoked as we are spoilt to welcome such a great bunch of people to The Strand. And now we’re simply excited to see what they do with all the opportunities we have ahead of us thanks to an enviable list of great client partnerships.”

Saatchi & Saatchi has enjoyed great momentum winning new business over the last 12 months including DB EXPORT, Tiger Beer, FIFA Women’s World Cup, Tourism New Zealand, Westpac, Z Energy and global trading platform, Pepperstone.