Wieden+Kennedy's Molly Wilkof and Mark Shanley Join adam&eveDDB

adam&eveDDB has hired Molly Wilkof and Mark Shanley as creative directors, further bolstering its creative department.

Molly, was behind Nike’s ‘The Toughest Athletes’ campaign which launched on Mother’s Day this year.

Before joining W&K in 2019, Molly worked at Droga5 London on clients including Amazon. Prior to that, she worked at Barton F Graf and McCann, both in New York.

Molly’s appointment follows that of Mark Shanley, who was the creative director on Nike’s multi-award-winning ‘Nothing Beats a Londoner’ campaign. 

Mark began his career at Dublin-based DDFH&B (now JWT Folk) as an art director before moving to Wieden & Kennedy, where he was a creative director on both Nike and Bud light.

Last year, he also created a pro-bono campaign for Special Olympics Ireland, ‘Can’t Stop Now’, through the social enterprise Good Brains for Good Brands.

Both Molly and Mark will work across the entire portfolio of adam&eveDDB clients.

Ant Nelson and Mike Sutherland, ECDs, adam&eveDDB said: “We are beyond excited to have both Molly and Mark join us. Not only are they ridiculously talented, they’re also ridiculously nice people. We can’t wait to see them add their magic to the department.”