AJF Partnership elevates creative leadership in Melbourne offices with string of promotions
Independent creative agency AJF Partnership is promoting four of its senior creative executives in Melbourne to become creative directors and has introduced the roles of executive creative director for the first time in the agency’s nine-year history.
Senior creative teams (from left to right in picture) George Freckleton and Michael Skarbek, as well as Andy Jones and Glenn Dalton, are stepping up to creative director roles across the Melbourne agency’s client portfolio as well as creative leadership for the agency’s 20-strong creative department.
They will continue to work alongside AJF partners Adam Francis, Andrew Foote and Josh Stephens, who will take on the new roles of executive creative directors.
Says Francis, Foote and Stephens: “George, Mike, Glenn and Andy have been key drivers of our most effective work for clients and their promotions are recognition of their loyalty and influence on the agency’s progress. They have each spent an average of almost seven years with us and we firmly believe that their CD positions will further elevate our creative performance for clients.”
Since its launch in 2005, AJF Partnership has grown from three to 110 staff across the Melbourne and Sydney offices to become one of the largest and most effective independent agencies in Australia. Its clients include Officeworks, News Corp, GM Holden, Lion, Campari Group, Ergon Energy, iSelect, Australian Grand Prix Corporation, RAMS Financial Services, University of Melbourne and IG Markets.
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Two of the nicer dudes in advertising. Well done Skarbs and George, you guys deserve it.
babes…
Long time coming, and well deserved. Congratulations boys.
Thats the way to do it. 🙂
all four are legends. well done dudes
Beards.
Awesome to the power of four. Well done.
Congrats Mikey. This calls for some exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesssssssssssss.
Imagine if there were 4 managing directors suddenly promoted. Where does it stop – everybody is called the chairman?
I’ve personally just been promoted to Jesus.
Congrats lads! Well deserved all round.
Rocking news. Awesome blokes. Indisputable AOTD.
Well done boys!
Exciting guys! You all deserve it 🙂
Congrats lads!
Can we please just get this sorted out once and for all.
If you run a section of a creative department you are a “Creative Group Head”.
If you run the creative department you are the “Creative Director”.
If the only work you do each day is search the internet for secondhand Maseratis, you are the “Executive Creative Director”.
You can’t have 4 Creative Directors and 3 Executive Creative Directors.
Titles instead of pay rises:
‘You’ can complain as much as you want and these 4 guys will still be Creative Directors because that’s what the agency thinks is a worthy reward for their hard work. Good on the agency and good on the guys for working hard to get their.
Not sure what you’re situation is, if you never quite got there or had it taken away from you but your message adds nothing to the thread which is about recognising hard working people in this industry.
Now we have assholes, yes you’re an asshole – because you chose to rip apart people you don’t know who have worked hard for 7 years and deserve some respect. I don’t know these guys either by the way. But I do know that you add nothing to this post and probably nothing to your creative dept if you still work in one you utter cretin.
Well done chaps, super happy for you all: very well-deserved : )
Well deserved fellas……very well deserved recognition!
Nice CD Beards.