WingLatino adds to Account Management Team.
November 10, 2008
Alain Groenendaal, President and CEO of Winglatino announced the appointment of two account management hires:
• Marie-Angie Vassallo has joined the agency as Regional Account Director. She most recently spent three years at Conill Advertising, part of Saatchi & Saatchi, as Management Supervisor and team leader on Procter & Gamble’s
Pampers, Head & Shoulders and Olay for the Hispanic market and contributed to the Metlife, Sunny D and Johnson & Johnson Merck/McNeil pharmaceutical accounts. Earlier, she spent four years as Account Manager at The Vidal
Partnership overseeing Wendy’s retail account, its first ever national Hispanic advertising effort.
• Ana Franco has joined the agency as Account Director. She spent the last year as Account Director at Rapp Collins, New York, overseeing the relationship marketing and online efforts of pharmaceutical brands, Vytorin and Zetia. Earlier, she worked at the Bravo Group, Y&R, New York, as Group Account Director on the Wyeth and AstraZeneca business. Ms. Franco has held senior account management positions at McCann Erickson, Barcelona; LatinWorks Marketing, Austin, Texas; Ogilvy and Ogilvy One, Miami; Ogilvy Bassat, Madrid and FCB Tapsa, Madrid.
Alain Groenendaal said, “Marie-Angie and Ana are tremendous talents and we are proud to welcome them to the exciting new team we are building at Winglatino. They have worked with many of the world’s premier companies leveraging brand vision, strategy and creativity into powerful integrated communications.”