Creative Talent Romano Appointed At JWT

JWT London's Chief Executive Officer, Alison Burns, and Russell Ramsey, the Executive Creative Director, have announced the appointment of Fernanda Romano as a Creative Director.
Russell Ramsay said: “Fernanda is a real star in the creative world. She has an impressive track record in digital media and will add a fresh source of inspiration for our work.”
Among Romano’s accomplishments, she won 10 Cannes Cyber Lions in 2004/2005 and the Cannes Cyber Lions Grand Prix in 2005. In 2007, she served on the One Show Interactive Jury, the Spikes (Asia), the Cannes Cyber Jury and was selected as an Advertising Age’s “Woman to Watch.”
The appointment is Ramsey’s first creative director hiring since joining the agency in September 2007 and reflects his and Burns’ commitment to integrating creativity across the agency on behalf of its clients.
Romano’s start date at JWT is May 6, 2008, and she will work across all client brands: “I am really excited about joining JWT London and working with a team who are fully invested in the work.
“JWT is not only a place of solid planning and thinking, but it has a very serious discipline for creativity. Add that to the drive of its people to achieve success and you have an exciting work environment in one of the most vibrant cities in the world.”
Romano joins JWT from Lowe Madrid, AKA Lola where she held a role as global creative director since July 2007.
As Executive Creative Director of Lowe NY between December 2005–July 2007, she was credited with creating an integrated creative department ensuring the agency's solutions to client's briefs were media agnostic.
(DS)