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

Tim Burrowes

November 5, 2012 10:24

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).

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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3 COMMENTS

goodone 5 Nov 12

…I think I’m in love

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nick williams 5 Nov 12

welcome home Catherine

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Fabfour 5 Nov 12

Congratuations Catherine.
She has the Gen Y age group wrong in that Sunrise piece (if you are reading this Catherine). They are out of their teens and into their 30’s now (1980 – 1991)

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