VCCP names new executive creative director as managing director returns to UK in global role

(clockwise LtoR) David Kennedy Cosgrove, managing partner; Michele O’Neill, strategy director; Gary Dawson, creative partner; Suzie Roberts, business partner

VCCP managing director Peter Grenfell is to return to the UK to join the agency in a global role while the hunt for a new executive creative director has ended after a five months search with Gary Dawson of M&C Saatchi named new ECD.

Joint creative director Mark Harricks left the agency in December after less than a year, while the agency’s founding executive creative director Dean Hunt returned to Perth earlier this year.

At the time of the search, Grenfell told Mumbrella he was on no hurry to replace the executive role and wanted to take his time.