ABT has announced two staff appointments for its interactive and marketing teams. Steven Skrekovski joins ABT as Art Director - Interactive, while Claire Kowarsky steps up as Marketing Manager with responsibility for ABT’s offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Beijing.

With a rich background in multimedia design, Skrekovski was previously Digital Group Head at sister Photon company, Belong. There his work on client accounts as varied as BMW, Elwood Jeans, Glaxo SmithKline and top four bank, NAB, covered motion graphics, interactive branding plus digital film and photography direction.  Skrekovski’s folio highlights include his MADC awarded, motion graphics work for Club NAB, a Commonwealth Games brand experience environment, plus his placing as a Best Animation Create Award finalist with a cinema film for Elwood Jeans.

Kowarsky’s new Marketing Manager role represents a logical shift from her previous work in Business Development and PR positions. In developing strategies and implementing marketing campaigns for the firm’s Australian and Chinese offices, she will work closely with ABT’s business development teams onshore and offshore. Kowarsky started her communications career with Y&R’s Brand Experience arm in Amsterdam and since then has enjoyed work for not-for-profits Open Family and SEDA (Seeing Eye Dogs Australia).

ABT CEO Antony Gowthorp welcomed these staff appointments:
”Steven and Claire really understand the strategic and integrated brand offering provided by ABT; both are big picture thinkers well able of looking outside the box for creative solutions. Claire’s appointment is testament to ABT’s ‘grow our own’ philosophy.”

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