ASIA-PACIFIC – SINGAPORE, FEBRUARY 1, 2011 – Integrated agency iris Singapore has appointed Lawrence Stevenson as senior creative and Kim Lim as producer.
Stevenson joins from TBWA and Lim joins following several years working at agencies including Y&R and Publicis and within the local film industry. Both join this week and will report in to creative director Tom Ormes.
The hires follow the launch of iris Singapore’s latest tongue-in-cheek initiative, its iQuit.sg website, which it launched this week as part of a new recruitment drive.
Stevenson will begin work on activity for the agency’s clients Heineken, Johnnie Walker and adidas, while Lim will work across the agency’s key accounts. iris Singapore’s recent campaigns include the Heineken Office Chair Grand Prix, the Audi A8 launch in Singapore, and adidas Refresh.
Stevenson said: “In a world where a lot of agencies embrace integration by printing it in upper-case on their name cards, it’s nice to find one whose mantra really is ‘Media Anything Idea Everything’. iris is doing things that other agencies aren’t even thinking about. And even nicer that they found a desk for me.”
Tom Ormes, creative director at iris Singapore, said: “Having quality talent like Larry and Kimbo on board is an exciting way forward for iris in 2011. Beyond being great at what they do, they’re both very cool people. It’s going to be an interesting year.”
iris Singapore, which works with global blue-chip brands including Diageo, Unilever, Tiger, Heineken, Sony Ericsson and Red Bull, launched the site, iQuit.sg to publicize the agency’s recruitment drive. The site, which has the interface of a typical recruitment agency, allows those in the ad industry to create their own resignation letters using bespoke templates for BBDO, DDB, Grey, Leo Burnett, McCann Worldwide, Ogilvy, Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi, TBWA, and Y&R.
iris’ Singapore operation, which launched in 2006 and serves as a strategic hub for Asia Pacific, is now one of the fastest growing agency networks in the region.
