Brand and experience design firm Collins made a series of nine hires across its New York and San Francisco offices, which Collins attributed to the company’s recent growth.
“Collins is growing. We’re expanding our East and West Coast presence with the appointment of nine new, remarkable people, all from exemplary organizations,” Collins chief creative officer and co-founder Brian Collins said in a statement. “And we continue to seek stellar men and women to work across everything we’re doing with our clients, from Spotify, Coca-Cola and Chubb to Target to Dropbox to the Muppets at the Museum of Moving Image. It’s an exciting time for our company.”
Claire Morris (pictured) was appointed as managing director, based out of Collins’ New York office. She joins Collins following a little over two years as vice president, group account director for 360i and a brief stint as director of client services for SET Creative. She arrives at Collins with over two decades of experience at agencies including Ogilvy, Havas and Y&R.
Emily Morris joins the New York office as senior business director. She arrives at Collins from BBDO New York, where she spent nearly three years and most recently served as senior vice president, account director on Visa. Prior to joining BBDO as an account director on Belvedere Vodka and American Red Cross, she spent a little over a year as an account director for TBWA\Chiat\Day L.A., working on the Pepsi account.
Director of development Amir Ouki joins Collins’ New York office from ForUSAll in San Francisco, where he spent the last year and a half as business development lead.
Also joining the New York office are business managers Katie Persichilli, Dorothy Smith and Taylor Holland and associate designer Sanuk Kim. Presichilli and Smith both arrive from Mother New York, while Holland was most recently at Droga5. Kim previously worked at Vice, Mother and Hinterland.
Karin Soukup joins Collins’ San Francisco office as brand experience designer, following a period as freelance design director. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as design lead for IDEO. Sydney Roberts was also appointed as the office manager for the San Francisco office.