Tony Kaye & Partners has bolstered its management structure with
three new hirings.
Graham Collis, a former creative director of BMP and a founder of Horner
Collis Kirvan, has become creative director of Tony Kaye & Partners. He
will work with a new corporate affairs director, David Wardlaw, a former
management consultant who specialises in marketing and
entertainment.
Both are also joint managing directors of the K Media Group, which
comprises Tony Kaye & Partners, K Interactive, K Features and K
Promos.
The third newcomer is Saul Henry, who has worked as an agent for
photographers and joins Tony Kaye & Partners as head of business
development. He will represent the company’s 17-strong roster of
directors in Europe. Amy Appleton will continue as managing director,
responsible for production at Tony Kaye & Partners.
Before moving to the K Media Group, Collis and Wardlaw worked together
at Genie Films, which has closed since the duo’s departure. Five of
Genie’s directors - Dom Murgia, Henrik von Sydow, Nico Beyer and Eugene
McGing and Robert Dowling - have moved with them to Tony Kaye &
Partners.
Wardlaw said: ’Tony Kaye & Partners has been disorganised and chaotic in
the past. It had a name for creativity but not many other things.’ More
producers are being brought in to rebuild relationships with agency
creatives.
Tony Kaye & Partners plans to keep a roster made up of five or six
stars, seven or eight directors who are building their reputations and a
handful of newcomers. Wardlaw added: ’We will still win awards but the
business will be ten times the size.’
