Yesterday, M&C announced it had nicked BBH London strategy director & partner, Ross Berthinussen, to join M&C Saatchi Sydney as group strategy director.

Today, it has added the White Agency’s associate creative director, Glenn Christensen and Nomads Amsterdam’s creative director, Chris Cheeseman, to its digital department. Both become senior art directors.

And if you have been reading Movers, Shakers & Makers regularly, you might also notice that these new hires join a long list formed in the last few months.

Chris Cheeseman, left. Glenn Christensen, right.

Cheeseman is the creative director who reinvented Emirates Airlines at Nomads (ex-StrawberryFrog). He sums himself up like this:

“I believe in the kind of ideas that hurdle traditional media plans and bring people together in more meaningful ways. If it sounds a little lofty, it’s not meant to. I guess you could say I’m interested in ways to sell stuff better.”

And he assesses his new job like this: “With some of the largest, most prolific brands on their books, I see real opportunity to do break-through work.”

Christensen sums himself up in this way; “digital oddball, animator, lego geek, cabin builder, gamer, foody, guitar nut, drinker, tinkerer, traveller, sketcher, scamper, camper, wabbit season, duck season, art lover, dog lover. Specialties: Concepting, Storyboarding, traditional illustration, 2d Animation, fishing.”

…But he is most often remembered as the bloke who drove a tank through a house for a Nissan shoot when he was at Whybin\TBWA. He also worked on Playstation, Red Bull, VISA and NRMA there. No Playstations were destroyed in the name of creativity.

And of his new job, he reckons, “After 18 months at a purely digital shop it’s great to be back in an integrated agency, especially one with a huge innovation skew, doing all sorts of interesting stuff for our clients.”

M&C Saatchi executive creative director, Ben Welsh, commented, “Both Glenn and Chris bring special creative smarts, perspective and experience to the table. Their work is second to none. We couldn’t be more excited about having them on board.”