Kiwi expat Tom Markham departs plum digital CD role at CP+B Boulder for New York adventure

After 15 months Kiwi expat Tom Markham has departed the plum digital creative director role at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Boulder to move back to New York for family reasons.

Markham, who joined from Lowe Worldwide, New York in December 2011, was the most senior ‘hands-on’ interactive creative, working across a variety of the agency’s clients.

At Lowe Worldwide he was global digital creative director managing digital work from 75 agencies around the world and focusing on Unilever.

He began at Lowe’s Auckland in 2004 as an Interactive Creative Director, working on Vodafone and Genesis Energy, and later moving up to run digital in Lowe’s Sydney office where he helped the agency win large digital-only clients like Foxtel. He moved to the worldwide gig in September 2009.

In New York he worked closely with Lowe’s South African born chief creative officer, Matthew Bull, and the latter’s departure in September to form his own start-up was believed to be the reason for Markham to move elsewhere.