The summer of agency upheaval has ended. Maybe it was raw coincidence that so many creatives and execs left senior-level jobs (of their own will or otherwise), or maybe it’s tangible proof that the agency business has drastically changed in the highly digital, post-recession second decade of the new millenium.
1. KEVIN FLYNN, SVP of client stratetgy at MacLaren MRM, popped up as managing director of Rosetta’s Toronto offi ce, kicking off the season of the shuffl e
2. Shortly thereafter CARLE COPPENS left Montreal’s BCP to join Brad as VP and creative director…
3. …replacing the outgoing MARTIN RIVARD
4. IAN MACKELLAR left BBDO Toronto in April, but once the weather warmed he re-emmerged in the industry as creative director of the independently owned Bensimon Byrne
5. Then BRETT CHANNER left his ECD/chairman post at Saatchi & Saatchi
6. GLEN HUNT left Dentsu on a “career hiatus”
7. JACK NEARY returned after two years away from Canada to become CCO at TBWAToronto, a role vacated six months prior by…
8. …ANTHONY WOLCH, who’s now at Organic
9. ISABELLE HUDON then left Montreal’s Marketel after 18 months in the president’s chair (reappearing in August as president of Sun Life Quebec)
10. RICHARD SANDOR’s tenure as SVP and managing director at DDB Vancouver ended soon after; he’s now running the self-started Eustress Marketing Coaching
11. DOM CARUSO was let go as president and CEO at BBDO Toronto; his responsibilities were assumed by…
12. …GERRY FRASCIONE, the CEO of BBDO Canada/ North America who more or less relocated his home base from New York to Toronto
13. The season ended with the news KEVIN PFUHL had left GJP Advertising where he was managing partner
14. MATTHEW STERN assumed Pfuhl’s responsibilities under the newly created title of president
15. ANDREW SIMON was likewise made partner at GJP shortly after leaving DDB Canada where he was ECD
