After 11 months stint Aussie expat Noah Regan departs executive CD role at Host, Singapore
CB Exclusive – Noah Regan, executive creative director of Host Singapore, has resigned and is leaving Singapore to have a few months break traveling – looking at opportunities in either Europe or the USA.
Regan only joined the start up Singapore agency in March last year following a short stay as CD at BBH Singapore.
Regan (pictured left) had been creative director and partner of The Monkeys, Sydney since October 2008, and moved to BBH Singapore in September 2012.
In a career spanning almost 20 years, Regan has created many highly awarded campaigns. As creative director and Partner at The Monkeys he was a key part of many of their most successful campaigns including ‘The Ship Song Project’ which was B&T Campaign of the Year and winner of the Grand Prix at the Australasian Branded Entertainment Awards. Prior to The Monkeys he created several high profile campaigns at DDB London for Volkswagen, Harvey Nichols and Marmite.
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Take a break mate. Longer than you think you need. Rediscover your passion and yourself before looking again.
Hosts are not very nice hosts. A mix of intense and too cool for school people to be completely honest. Can’t imagine what they were like in Singapore but I’d expect much of the same. Everyone needs a break after working with this culture. And for what it’s worth, I had gone through similar situations. My advice, take a break from CD roles. I did. A lot less to worry about.
The problem with advertising these days is that they don’t believe in people, they believe in money. It’s a CFO mentality.
Best of luck Noah.
That’s one CD left out of 4 in the space of 2 months. All good creatives and blokes. The reality is that no creative has ever left host with an improved reputation or portfolio. It’s a creative career and confidence killer. Because host doesn’t produce work. It produces presentations. It’s all planning and no implementing. The model is the emperor’s invisible clothes that only the most gullible fall for.
Host is not a creative agency. It’s a planner/suit agency that pulls creatives into its web, sucks the life out of them, then spits them out when it’s done. You’re far too good for them, Noah. Good luck mate.
Host is the worst place for creative, if loosing over half the creatives in a space of 2-3 months is any testament to how the agency works, i’d stay right the F**K away…
Good move Noah.