BBH Singapore add five more to their creative department including CB Asia Creative Rankings chart-topper Adrian Chan
Adrian Chan, the current No1 creative in Asia in this year’s Campaign Brief Asia Creative Rankings, has resigned from Ogilvy & Mather Singapore to join BBH Asia-Pacific Singapore.
Chan joins BBH along with four other new names to its Creative Department following a rise in new and existing business development growth. He joins the Agency as Senior Art Director. The Melbourne University graduate started out his career in advertising three years ago. At Ogilvy, he worked on clients such as Coke, Ben & Jerry’s and American Express and won a large array of awards including Gold at Cannes, One Show and Clio.
Copywriter Elena Fletcher joins as Senior Copywriter and brings withher experience spanning Singapore, Malaysia and Canada. One of Elena’smost successful campaigns was the Action for Aids ‘Nikki’ campaign atFCB, which garnered unprecedented public response, media attention anda Gold Effie. Leading accounts she has worked on include Starhub,Samsung and The Royal Bank of Canada.
Lauren Tan joins the Agencyas Art Director. A graduate of Temasek Design School, Lauren’s experience includes working at Ogilvy Red Card where she worked onclients such as Motorola, The Economist and Nike.
CopywriterDaniel Ko joins the Agency bringing experience on previous accountsthat include ExxonMobile, Republic of Singapore Air Force, and theSingapore Health Promotion Board in his previous role at DDB Worldwide.
Freshfrom studying and working in London, Janson Choo joins BBH Asia Pacificfor his first job as Art Director in Singapore. A graduate of CentralSaint Martins, London, Janson has worked at Saatchi & Saatchi andY&R London, with clients such as Tesco and Virgin.
Said SteveElrick, Regional Executive Creative Director, BBH Asia Pacific: “It’salways good to shake things up and these guys will certainly do that.Change is good. As is pizza. It’s not about the gongs they have wonbut about the way they think – and how that thinking will be zoning inon some of our Clients’ brands. It’s also a signal from BBH that weare constantly open to getting the freshest thinkers in the businessand applying their particular and unusual talents to what we do,”
Pictured from left to right: Adrian Chan, Daniel Ko, Lauren Tan, Janson Choo & Elena Fletcher
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What the??
How did O&M let this guy leave. Young and number one in Asia and they haven’t looked after him? what happened?
Nice move guys. BBH have the right perspective on this industry. Finally an agency managed to snare Elena! She rocks.
You can sense the ECD is struggling with the wording of that press release.
Shaking things up is good…and so is pizza….LOL!
Could this be closer to the truth?
We have no money and so decided to find the cheapest creatives money could buy…and goddammit, times are so bad we got 5 for the price of 3.
Yes 2.16 it goes to show that all that we are not into awards talk is all a load of rubbish. BBH know that they have to improve their creative reputation here. They can only ride on the back of the London office for so long. So far it’s their planners and agency management that is carrying their new business performance.
Adrian has really shone at Ogilvy. I hope BBH continue to let him grow.
7.20 you’re right….Ayesha is one of the best (if not the best ) planners around….but… I’m not sure the kids in the picture have what it takes to keep up with her intellectually. Will they have the nous to challenge her, engage with her? Not sure abt that…she’ll probably have to tell them what to do….and they will. Funny thing is, the whole creative department at BBH, with a couple of exceptions, is like that.
As long as you have smart people who keep a tight rein on strategy, you can get away with poor creative. For a while.
Steve speaks about hiring Adrian, the whole scam debacle from couple months back and other stuff in his recent interview on ihaveanidea
http://ihaveanidea.org/creatives/2009/07/01/steve-elrick/
I love the part in the interview where he says he hired asias top creative not for the awards he’s won but for the other work in his book that no one has ever seen. Thats a classic…shades of Karl Rove…..super flyweight Karl Rove.