SS+K has appointed Elisa Silva as senior vice president, director of client services. In the position, she will focus on talent management, department collaboration and overall creative excellence, while reporting directly to newly-appointed chief operating officer Kate Rothen.
Silva joins the agency from Barton F. Graf, where she has served as a group account director since her arrival in February of 2015. Prior to that she spent nine months as an account director with Translation, following a year as a business director with JWT New York. She made the jump from production-side positions when she joined W+K Portland as an account supervisor in May of 2006. Nearly five years later, she left W+K to become a brand director with 72andSunny L.A., a position she held for nearly two and a half years, before leaving to join JWT.
Rothen, who has been a partner with SS+K for several years, previously served as head of account services and director of social media. She originally joined the agency in 2005, following a year as director, client services with AGG International, and four as a senior associate with PR firm RF Binder before that. Rothen also serves as a board member with City College of New York, where she has previously taught a graduate course in agency internal management as an adjunct lecturer.