Saatchi & Saatchi has grown from a start-up advertising agency in London in 1970 to a global creative communications company headquartered in New York, with 140 offices in 76 countries. Saatchi & Saatchi is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third largest communications group.
Jonathan Santana and Xander Smith will join Saatchi & Saatchi in July from TBWA Paris where they have worked with Erik Vervroegen for three and a half years and one year respectively.
In 2007, Santana won the outdoor Grand Prix at Cannes and a D&AD yellow pencil for his work for Nedbank which saw the agency create the world's first solar-powered billboard to generate electricity to power a local school. In the same year, he won another gold at Cannes for the "Ghost Pops" poster campaign.
Smith also won two gold lions at Cannes for the Mapa "Sensitive Hands" print campaign and for the Sony PlayStation print campaign. He began his career as a copywriter at TBWA Hunt Lascaris in South Africa in 2001. Before moving to TBWA Paris, Santana spent seven years at Net#work BBDO in South Africa as an art director.
The pair's client experience includes Nissan, General Motors, PlayStation, South African Tourism, and Virgin Atlantic as well as a broad range of clients in the banking, broadcast, FMCG, public service and travel and tourism sectors.
Smith and Santana have worked together since 2007 when they met at TBWA Paris. They have 40 international and 27 South African awards between them.
