Publicis Mojo restructures creative department as Craig Davis exits
Craig Davis, the creative chief at Publicis Mojo Australia, is leaving the agency after a three-year spell.
His exit comes six months after the arrival of Joe Pollard as Mojo’s CEO.
The announcement from Mojo:
Today, Publicis Mojo Sydney announced a number of changes to their creative department.
Chief Creative Officer of Publicis Mojo Australia, Craig Davis, resigned from the business to focus on creativity and innovation in a wider business context.
“I’ve enjoyed my time at Mojo, it’s a formidable creative company with great clients and wonderful people, but I’m passionate about applying design thinking and creativity to some new challenges”, said Davis.
In leaving Publicis Mojo Joe Pollard said, “I want to thank Craig for his enormous contribution to the business over the last three years and wish him the very best for the future. He has been a great contributor to the creative leadership of Mojo and within the industry”.
Davis will leave Mojo at the end of March, 2013.
Pim Van Nunen will continue to lead the creative department of Publicis Mojo in Sydney. Adding to the creative strength in the Sydney Office, Michael Dole will join the agency at the end of January as Head of Art. Partnering with Ian Williamson as Head of Copy, Michael has an impressive portfolio of work and experience. In the past he has worked at Clemenger Sydney, working across all accounts with notable work on Foxtel, V Energy Drink, Toshiba and the recent brand launch for Virgin Australia “The romance is back”. Michael has also spent time at Wieden and Kennedy in Amsterdam.
In joining the agency Michael said “I’m really looking forward to joining an international team who have a genuinely unique and exciting way of working in this market. I’ve always admired Pim and Ian’s work and I can’t wait to start making stuff together.”
To add to the digital experience within the agency, Shaun O’Connor will join the agency at the end of January as a Creative Technologist. Shaun will partner with existing creative teams to be of voice of digital and technology within the creative process. Shaun comes to Mojo from TBWA/Tequila. In making the announcement Shaun said “I’m really looking forward to joining Pim, Joe and the growing team at Mojo in the New Year and can’t wait to get stuck in and start making things with the great clients the agency is working with”.
Davis, who is the former worldwide creative director of JWT, joined Mojo in June 2009 as co-chairman and chief creative officer.
Jumped, fell or pushed?
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It was really pretty inevitable, no?
Can’t see the point in kicking around till March.
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Now that really IS brand karma!!
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I taught him everything he knows
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Thats transparent.
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“JWT’s former global chief creative officer Craig Davis is to take the lead at Publicis Mojo, in a move aimed at returning the agency to its glory days on the world stage” ……..quote from Mumbrella June 2009.
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What a bummer Mummy won’t be able to publish all the comments that flow from this delightful piece of news!
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So are they going to have a creative department again now after all this time?
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A very rare and truly humbling creative talent who was a lone wolf endeavouring to lift and sustain the agency’s visibility, while the (previous) local owner/managers were busily packing their bags in the departure lounge. I look forward to seeing Craig’s next creative foray into the wider business world.
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@Groucho
Hard to say. He’s leaving in roughly 3 months. Probably standard on a contract at his level for resignation (although most state 6 months at senior levels).
Then again, he’s not leaving to go anywhere else.
So that leaves a number of options. He was pushed, but decided to stay on for the notice period, he has found another position but he can’t mention it yet, or, as he said, he wants to get out of the industry and do something else for a change.
My money’s on the third one, hasn’t been a great time at Mojo recently and who can blame him for wanting to actually use his brain.
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@Peter McDonald love your irony, that’s real class.Wish others had your restraint.
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What a shame my previous comment didn’t get up (apart from a lawyer’s nose)
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seriously Mummy – how many unpublishable comments have you had about this guy over the years?? do tell – please – in the interests of journalism
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Well with out his ginormous salary, they could probably afford to rehire the entire Melbourne office for a year.
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@Pedantophile the question was rhetorical.
And you got the answer wrong.
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i’d just like Joe to elaborate on the words ‘enormous contribution’.
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With all that moderating going on Mumbrella it looks like you have been threatened.
How come you can have a go at Event Cinemas but you run away from your responsibility to allow comment on (moderated by Mumbrella)?
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Hi Freedom Fighter,
No we haven’t had any threats (or a complaint or contact of any kind since the announcement).
Our moderation policy is to not allow abuse of individuals. Reasoned criticism is acceptable, and we’ll give more leeway where somebody puts their name to it.
You mention the Event Cinemas piece. You may recall that I put my name to that.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
How come one can’t call someone a clown on this posting?
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Well gee Tim of course you put your name to it, it would have been meaningless without it.
In this case, as Knobby Piles has inferred earlier, there seem to have been many posts on this topic that haven’t got up. Selectively publishing them surely biases the resulting impression giving the person in question the image of a knight on a white horse, instead of one of perhaps a different colour.
In this case crticism and stating a negative point of view is surely not abuse but fair comment on someone who has continuously ‘put himself out there”
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I do take your point, Freedom Fighter.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella