Winners of the 2012 4A’s O’Toole Awards for Creative Excellence were announced this afternoon during the 4A’s annual conference Transformation LA 2012, at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Top winners Include: 72andSunny, BBDO New York, Leo Burnett Chicago and mono.

The 4A’s is pleased to announce the 18 finalists in four categories for the 2012 O’Toole Awards for Creative Excellence.

Mullen announced today that Dave Weist and Tim Vaccarino have been promoted to Executive Creative Directors in the Boston, Massachusetts, headquarters office.

Reporting directly to newly appointed Chief Creative Officer Chris Ford, Kovacevich will work alongside SVP, Group Creative Director Julie Scelzo on the Dockers and Del Monte accounts.

Draftfcb San Francisco announced today that it has promoted three of the agency’s creative leaders—Colin McRae, Julie Scelzo and Tony Vazquez—to the role of SVP, Group Creative Director.

Chris Ford will be charged with leading the Draftfcb agency’s creative department that spans San Francisco and an office in Seattle when he joins the agency on Monday, August 29.

Michael Fassnacht, President of Draftfcb Chicago, and North American Executive Creative Director, Tom O’Keefe, announced today that Todd Tilford has been named the agency’s new Chief Creative Officer.

Building on three momentous years of revenue growth and expansion, Allen & Gerritsen (a&g) CEO Andrew Graff has appointed Majja Dennis and Doug Gould to help lead the next generation of the agency.

In her new role as SVP/Group Creative Director, Jill Applebaum will helm creative efforts for key accounts including Oreo and Gevalia.

The award-winning duo of Craig Love and Shayne Millington join JWT from Wieden+Kennedy, where Love was a Senior Copywriter and Millington a Senior Art Director since 2008.

Martin Davidson will join Woodbine Creative Director, Vickie Canada, to form a new senior creative leadership team.

Sanna Rogan will assist with the agency’s growth plans in developing new business and providing creative strategies and copywriting to SMM Clients.

In his new role, Roald van Wyk will lead multimedia creative efforts across several of the agency’s key accounts, including ONDCP and Fisher-Price.

Heath Rudduck, a 20-year international industry veteran widely considered one of the founders of digital creativity in Australia, assumed Campbell Mithun’s top creative post today, January 5, 2011.

James Bray joins M&C Saatchi from San Francisco’s Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, where he was responsible for some of the agency’s most notable recent work, including the “Firsts” campaign for Sprint, as well as the NBA, Netflix and Adobe.