Tinning takes the reins of PADC

A packed crowd of 25 (including the guy behind the bar) attended a spirited Perth Advertising & Design Club Annual General Meeting at the Double Lucky Bar in Leederville last night.

After three years in the role, Braincells’ Jeff Champtaloup stepped down as Club President. Marketforce creative director Andrew Tinning has taken up the position. Champtaloup will stay on the Committee as immediate past president.

In his final President’s Report, Champtaloup said the Club had achieved all its objectives in the past year and was in much better shape both financially and strategically than at this time last year, when the Club was on the brink of collapse.

He said the Club’s strategy of concentrating on two events – the Festival of Ideas and PADC Awards – had proven successful, although the costs associated with holding the Festival on Rottnest Island meant the location and format for it might need re-consideration.

And long-serving PADC manager, Liz Bindon-Bonney decided it was time to move on to other projects. Bindon-Bonney was presented with a laptop computer as thanks for her outstanding service to the Club in a couple of stints dating back twenty years. Interviews are to be held shortly with three candidates to take over the role.

2009 PADC Committee

Andrew Tinning (Marketforce) – President

Jeff Champtaloup (Braincells)

Paul Yole (The Brand Agency)

Danielle Glenister (The Brand Agency)

Julia Elton-Bott (Marketforce)

Mike Sequeira (303)

Mark Braddock (Block)

Brett Wheeler (Rare Creative Thinking)

Blair McLeish (Curtin University)

Les Corner (The West Australian) – Principal sponsor

John Driscoll (Marketforce) – ‘Brand Champion’