Roger MacDonnell

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Roger Lindsay MacDonnell | image = | caption = | occupation = Businessman, advertising executive | known_for = Co-founding Colenso advertising agency (1969); involvement in major political advertising campaigns including the 1975 “Dancing Cossacks” ad | notable_works = Colenso (co-founder) }}

'''Roger Lindsay MacDonnell''' is a New Zealand businessman who co-founded the advertising agency Colenso in 1969. The agency gained notoriety for Michael Wall's "Dancing Cossacks" ad for the National Party in 1975.<ref name="NZ_Herald_10450136">{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10450136 |title=''The Interview:'' Roger MacDonnell |author=Drinnan, John |date=7 July 2007 |work=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=11 September 2011}}</ref> MacDonnell retired from Colenso in 2010. That year he was appointed to the TVNZ Board by Minister of Broadcasting Jonathan Coleman. MacDonnell was TVNZ Board member for six years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coleman appoints TVNZ board member |url=https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/coleman-appoints-tvnz-board-member |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=The Beehive |language=en}}</ref> In 2016 he joined TRA, an insight agency in Auckland.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2016-10-16 |title=Arrivals & Departures: TRA signs Roger MacDonnell |url=https://www.mad-daily.com/arrivals-departures-tra-signs-roger-macdonnell/ |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=M+AD! |language=en-NZ}}</ref>

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