Archive for the ‘People’ Category

Duval Guillaume is reinforcing its online expertise by attracting more talent. In spring 2008 eight new faces will join our organization to provide an even better service to our existing and new clients.

In our full service agencies we’re not into lines, not above, below, nor through. Duval Guillaume is a place where ambitious advertisers and creative talents meet and build brands together. The online expert center represents people working on digital strategy, creative concepts, content in all its forms, user experience and webdesign & webdevelopment.

Michel Thysen is the new Online Manager in our Antwerp offices. He will be responsible for all new business and Client relations, as also for the team management and online strategy. Inès Van Lautem starts as a planning and traffic manager to match work with people. Geert Theys is the technical project manager we were looking for.

Gijs Hoppenbrouwers, Liesbeth Willaert and Manoël Sanchez are web producers (account managers) working on Belgian and international clients, such as Brussels Airlines, Topps, Nikon Europe and Leaseplan. Greet Jans will add value to our user experience team as an information architect. Mara Kockaerts works as a junior interface designer and Olivier Rocq starts as a web developer.  

Olivier Trop has started as head of public relations at Duval Guillaume. Duval Guillaume offers a wide range of strategic PR services including media relations, internal communication, issue and crisis management and influencer communication.

At the moment, Duval Guillaume advises brands such as Dexia, Fedex, LeasePlan, Dunlop, Hyundai and Weekendesk. Olivier Trop is a seasoned PR expert with over 15 years experience. With his appointment we intend to strengthen and expand our PR activities.

You can view Olivier’s profile on LinkedIn.

There has been some media coverage about online virtual worlds, Second Life in particular. These gamelike environments where entered by brands, marketeers and advertisers, since they allow a new kind of interaction with their visitors.

David Hachez, one of our strategists, was interviewed by Belgian broadcaster RTL TVI to give some insights about this phenomenon. Interview in French.

David has an interesting blog of his own, where he writes about online interaction, digital communication and marketing. Visit David’s blog at: dhtheafter.blogspot.com