Lowe swoops for Tom Nester-Smith

Campaign 26-Oct-07

Lowe has poached Tom Nester-Smith, Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R's commercial director, to be its first head of client services.

He will report directly to the chief executive, Amanda Walsh, and will
sit on the agency's executive management team, working alongside the
chief strategy officer, Rebecca Morgan, the executive creative director,

Ed Morris, the finance director, Ian Courts, and the chief marketing

officer, Judy Mitchem.

In his new role, Nester-Smith will also run the agency's Unilever Sure,
Innocent drinks and Twinings business.

Nester-Smith spent four years at RKCR/Y&R, where he worked on accounts
that included Virgin Atlantic, Budweiser, The Home Office and COI.
Before that, he was a board account director at Abbott Mead Vickers
BBDO.

Walsh said: "We have found in Tom someone who shares our vision and
enthusiasm for the future of the agency model. He will play a key role
in helping us to evolve the skill-set of Lowe."