Archibald / Williams appoints Saatchi & Saatchi CD Matt Gilmour as executive creative director

CB Exclusive: Following the announcement last week of Chris Yong as managing director of Archibald/Williams, the agency today announces the appointment of Matt Gilmour (left) as executive creative director. This is a new appointment for the agency.

Gilmour is an award-winning creative who has worked both in Australia and the United States.  His Penny the Pirate campaign for OPSM picked up the Creative Innovation Gold at the recent AWARDs night, and has also won Cannes Lions, gold at LIA’s, Clios and the Best in Show at Caples last year. His TEDx Video, The First Taste, was a finalist at Cannes and awarded a merit at The One Show. However more than the awards was the international PR it generated with hundreds of blogs and international media coverage.

Says Gilmour: “Even a Turkish cheese brand completely ripped it off for their TVC – so badly, it was brilliant.”

Gilmour has recently been named as one of the 2015 Cannes Lions jury panel and will judge Press.

In 2003 Gilmour began his career in the industry as an art director with Saatch & Saatchi. During his six years with the agency he worked across a broad range of clients including automotive, finance, food/beverage, government and electronics.

In 2008 he moved to the US to join Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder, Colorado. While there his main clients and campaigns enhanced his exposure to international markets and completely reprogrammed the way he approaches creative challenges.

 From CP+B Gilmour joined BBDO Atlanta as VP creative director working predominantly on the AT&T telco account leading national network projects and new phone launches.

Gilmour returned to Australia after nearly 4 years in the US to return to Saatchi & Saatchi as creative director. While there he launched the globally recognised Joyville campaign for Cadbury, helped win the nib Health Insurance account and together with OPSM created one of the countries most awarded campaigns of the year.

Says Bram Williams, founder: “We’re super excited to have Matt on board. I loved working with him years back at Saatchi – and his creative leadership and style will be a real asset at Archibald / Williams.”

Archibald / Williams clients include News Corp Australia, Citibank, Nando’s, Syngenta, Suncorp,

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