John Dean, founder of Addition Marketing, now Mustoe Merriman, has been appointed as creative director of Clusta.

Dean joins the Birmingham-digital agency having worked at Saatchi & Saatchi and WCRS before launching Addition Marketing.
Also joining are Emily de Groot, previously at M&C Saatchi and Proximity, and FullSIX’s Neil Brice.

De Goot will work on skin and hair care specialist Palmer’s, luxury brand Chanel and upcoming Universal Music projects including Cheryl Cole’s new site.

In addition, Clusta has promoted Tim Moorhouse to sales and marketing director and appointed Kayta Hackman, formerly of Spin PR, as account executive.

Russell Townsend, managing director at Clusta, said: “We are always looking to attract the very best industry talent to Clusta, and John, Emily, Neil and Kayta bring a wealth of expertise to the team, to help us guide the agency from strength to strength. Tim’s promotion is testament to his fantastic contribution to Clusta since he joined us, and his efforts have been fundamental to our recent success.”