Motorola's European marketing director Simon Thompson, the ex-Honda executive responsible for ads including Cog and Choir, is joining lastminute.com as chief marketing officer.
Mr Thompson, who left Honda to join Motorola as European marketing director for mobile devices a year ago, is replacing ex-IPC Ignite! marketing director Niall McKinney at Lastminute.
Mr McKinney, who joined lastminute.com in February last year, is leaving to pursue entrepreneurial interests.
A spokeswoman for lastminute.com said that Mr Thompson would join the company in mid April.
Mr Thompson has just completed shooting a blockbuster TV commercial for Motorola to promote the new high definition picture quality of the Rizr Z8 mobile phone, the successor to the massively popular Razr.
He will report in to Damon Tassone, deputy chief executive of lastminute.com.
In a statement Motorola confirmed Mr Thompson's departure and announced that Neil Stewart, currently marketing director for the Europe, Middle East, Africa and India region, would take over his responsibilities.
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