Strategy heavyweight Catherine Heath returns to Australia for major M&C Saatchi role

M&C Saatchi has hired the worldwide group planning director of TBWA\ Chiat\ Day Catherine Heath as its executive strategy director for Australia, Mumbrella can reveal. She starts today.

Heath, a graduate of the University of Sydney, has been working in the US operation of the TBWA network for two years.

Prior to that she spent a brief stint as chief strategy officer at Boston creative agency Modernista.

Heath’s move marks a return to M&C Saatchi where she worked as a strategic planner from 2001 to 2003. She then went on to do a similar role at Young & Rubicon (which has since become GPY&R).