VML creative director to head overseas for CCO role

VML’s current group executive creative director of Melbourne and Sydney will head overseas to take on a CCO role for the agency.

On Wednesday morning, VML announced that after 13 years working locally with the company, Jake Barrow will make the move to Prague in Czech Republic to lead an agency of 400 people.

First starting as an art director at what was then George PattersonY&R, Barrow took on the role of creative director in 2015, ECD in 2017 and eventually group ECD of Sydney and Melbourne in 2021.

The agency currently boasts a client list that includes Defence Force Recruiting, Ford, Coca-Cola, Colgate and Nestle.