Agency Moves: Bobs Your Uncle names head of biz development

James Kang joins Bob’s Your Uncle as head of business development

Bob’s Your Uncle has named James Kang its new head of business development to lead expansion efforts. The move comes after the shop revamped its senior leadership earlier this month.

Kang has worked with large franchisors across Canada, the U.S. and Asia, including RBI, Mitsui (Japan), Samsung Group (South Korea) and Morgan Stanley Korea. He also played a key role in developing franchise systems from the ground up, helping businesses understand market potential and creating legal frameworks and contracts.

Kang’s addition to Bob’s Your Uncle strengthens the agency’s capacity to support fast-growing brands, especially those on the verge of franchising or expanding rapidly, the shop says. He has expertise in store design, real estate planning, franchise system development and franchise sales that complements the agency’s brand and marketing capabilities.

“We have a history of working with breakout, fast-growing brands, and many companies today are on the brink of major growth,” says Bob Froese, CCO at Bob’s Your Uncle. “Franchising is often the logical next step.”

Sid Lee names two ECDs

executive creative directors at Sid Lee.
Fraracci held the creative director role at the shop for more than six-and-a-half years. Before joining Sid Lee, he was group creative director at Leo Burnett in Toronto and ACD at Y&R Canada.

He has worked on brands including Maple Leaf Foods, Miller Lite, Belairdirect, Testicular Cancer Canada, Cheekbone Beauty and Goodwill.

Susie has been a creative director at Sid Lee for over three years and before that was also a Group Creative Director at Zulu.

While at Sid Lee, she led teams on President’s Choice, TJX, Maple Leaf Foods, and most recently Harry Rosen.

Lee previously held creative director roles with TBWA and Zulu Alpha Kilo.

Her work includes Nissan’s “Holiday Elves,” the  Goldfish “Feed the Imagination” campaign, as well as Subaru’s “Greatest Outback of All Time.”

Leo adds an ACD

Sean Ngo has been named associated creative director at Leo Burnett in Toronto.

Ngo was most recently senior copywriter with Tidal and Mint.

Previously, he held copywriter duties for .Monks and Sid Lee. Ngo has worked on accounts for Netflix, MLSE, Starbucks, Canada Basketball, PC Financial and H&R Block.