Simon Harkness is leaving the KOMI Group to become creative manager at Jungle Creations. Speaking about his new role on LinkedIn, Harkness said: “I’ll be bringing my experience in junkets and red carpets and tasked with building more interviews, games and original series on top of their already brilliant formats. It’s the perfect next step for me in my career and I can’t wait to get started.”
Harkness has been at KOMI for six years, most recently as senior entertainment executive. Commenting on his time there, he said: “The last 6 years have been nothing short of amazing. From building IGV’s entertainment section with no prior celebrity interviews to finishing with Tom Holland and BERO, it’s been an incredible journey.”
His last job at KOMI was producing a Tom Holland Pub Snacks video, which dropped on KOMI-owned social media channel IGV Presents this week. Having generated more than 50k views at time of writing, the 10-minute video sees the Spiderman star compare pub snacks from pork scratchings to Twiglets to Bacon Fries. The purpose of the video is to promote Holland’s 0% alcohol brand Bero.
Harkness said: “Securing time with Tom Holland to help support the launch of BERO is undoubtedly a career highlight of mine. Huge thanks to Kayleigh Senger and the Shelter PR team for securing our time with Tom despite very limited time for UK press and to James Laith Farrington and Emily Brewster for producing this shoot with me.”
Recently, Harkness produced another celebrity-based interview for IGV Presents, featuring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, stars of the new movie We Live In Time.
