The Garden Grows by 3

//  07.25.16

Left to right: Mike Kovacs, Project Cultivator; Sarah Philips, Strategist; Adriana Mahalean, Designer.

Toronto-based creative company The Garden Continues to grow, with 3 new hires.

Mike Kovacs joins as Project Cultivator, a unique role that combines client service with project management and production. Kovacs brings with him more than 6 years of account service experience and was most recently at JP/TBWA, where he helped lead the Nissan Infinity and Petro Canada accounts. He is also an avid ice car racer and the recipient of a certificate of entrepreneurship from the MaRS Discovery District.

Sarah Philips has joined as the company’s newest Strategist. Philips has been freelancing with The Garden since last June. Prior to that she has held roles as a Journalism Professor at Humber College and account service positions at McLaren McCann and Zulu Alpha Kilo, where she helped manage the Colgate-Palmolive, WIND Mobile, Indie88 and Jack Astor’s accounts. Sarah also helped to create Humber College’s first post-graduate program in communications & professional writing and was a finalist in the inaugural Canadian edition of the Griffin Farley Search for Beautiful Minds competition.

Adriana Mahalean joins as Designer. Previously at Goods and Services, Adriana has applied her beautiful aesthetic to a number of brands, including LCBO, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Herman Miller and Sun Life Financial. With a Fine Arts degree from York University and a Graphic Design diploma from Humber College, Adriana combines the skill of free form painting and the structured and strategic principles of design to bring a fresh and unique perspective to the projects she works on.

“We’re thrilled to have them. Not only are they exceptionally talented in their roles, but all three bring passion and interests from outside of their work, which we feel only adds to the creative output for our clients”. Says Shari Walczak, co-founder of The Garden. “They’re also really nice people, which is a very important part of hour hiring mandate”.

The Garden currently has a number of projects on the go for clients including: Standard Innovation, Scene, The United Way, WirelessWave, Tbooth Wireless, JustGotThat!, BiblioCommons, MetrolandMedia, Workopolis and TradeRev.

About The Garden
The Garden is a creative company, headquartered in Toronto, who believes that brands need to start focusing less on the impressions they buy and more on the impressions they make. Through the development of a strong strategic foundation and a holistic approach to creative problem solving and design, The Garden helps companies uncover the ‘why’ in what they do, with the goal of making every connection point an opportunity to build stronger, more lasting relationships with their customers.
thegardencollective.com

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