NewsLifeMedia snaffles Ben Grill from OMD as strategy director

Ben Grill, OMD’s director of insights, has joined NewsLifeMedia as audience and insights strategy director.

At OMD, Grill worked on clients including McDonald’s, Dulux, Weight Watchers and Johnson & Johnson.

Prior to OMD, Grill worked at New York agency Sterling Brands, with clients Target, Nestle, PepsiCo and Pernod Ricard. He also worked at Omnicom digital shop Agency.com.

Grill joins with a brief to revamp the NewsLifeMedia’s research division to drive integration across its lifestyle verticals. He will be working with The Future Laboratory, a trend consultancy NewsLifeMedia struck a strategic alliance with in November.