D&AD brings in new executives

D&AD has appointed Priestman Goode director Paul Priestman, Casson Mann director Dinah Casson and Poke director Simon Waterfall as its design-side executive members for 2005.

Tony Davidson, creative director of ad agency Wieden & Kennedy, has been named president-elect and will take over from the incoming president, Seymour Powell director Dick Powell, in 12 months’ time. D&AD chief executive Michael Hockney (pictured) says he welcomes the ‘three new members of our expanding design representation.’