DDB & Tribal Worldwide Amsterdam appointed four new members to its senior team with a trio of hires and one promotion. The agency appointed Jorik Houwelingen as strategy planner, Dave Murphy as business director and Sebastiaan Schreer as UX director, while hiring Anna Verkuijlen to a role as a full-time traffic manager.
Houweligen joins the agency from Soda, where he spent the past two years serving as product marketing manager. Before that he spent over four and a half years as a strategy director with Digined, working with clients such as KPN, Simyo and Kraft Heinz, following a brief stint with Telfort as a social and online manager.
Murphy joins DDB & Tribal from Droga5, where he has served as an account director for the past three years, working with clients including Toyota, Comcast Xfinity, Motorola, Johnsonville and Glacéau Smartwater. Prior to joining Droga5 he spent five years with DDB Group Australia as an account manager and account director, working with such clients as McDonald’s, Volkswagen, Unilever (Lipton Ice Tea) and Tourism Australia. That followed a year and a half with George Patterson Y&R as an account executive.
Schreer arrives at the agency with over ten years of UX and graphic design experience with Bastha, Dell, Headcandy and The Mobile Company.
Verkuijlen has worked as a freelance traffic manager with DDB & Tribal Worldwide Amsterdam since March, following nearly five years as an agent/planner at Roughmen. She has also worked as a traffic manger with UbachsWisbrun/JWT and Steam in Amsterdam.
“I am very proud that we can add so much international and national talent to our agency,” said DDB & Tribal Worldwide Amsterdam Co-CEO Ivo Roefs. “With the incredible growth we are currently experiencing, they ensure that we can continue to innovate and make the best work for our clients.”