JWT Sydney promotes Lam and O’Brien to associate CDs, new creative teams hired
Completing his restructure of the JWT Sydney creative department, executive creative director Andrew Fraser (centre) has promoted creative group heads, John Lam (far left) and Ben O’Brien (left) to the newly created roles of associate creative director.
“These promotions are in recognition of John and Ben’s enormous contributions to JWT’s successful creative output for Nestlé and Kellogg’s respectively. I believe very firmly in promoting from within if the talent’s there,” says Fraser.
Fraser joined JWT Sydney a little over six months ago as ECD and has restructured the JWT Sydney creative department with greater emphasis on “hands on” creative. “We’ve built on an already highly talented creative department here following on from last year’s terrific local and international recognition of our work.”
The JWT creative department restructure has also seen the appointmentof new junior and senior creative teams including senior creative teamHamish Spencer and Luke Simkins. Senior copywriter Hamish Spencer hashad roles at Whybin/TBWA and Publicis Mojo. He has a swag of local andinternational awards including a Cannes Lion, AWARD, The One Show(Merit) and D&AD in book status.
Senior art director Luke Simkins has held positions at George PattersonBates, Saatchi & Saatchi and most recently Leo Burnett. Simkins wasart director on the McDonalds “Name It Burger” campaign – the mosteffective burger launch in McDonald’s history in Australia. Thecampaign was a finalist at Cannes, awarded a Bronze at the New YorkFestival and won a Grand Prix at ADMA.
The other recent senior appointment Fraser has made is that of seniorcopywriter Simon Armour. Armour worked at Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydneybefore moving to Brisbane last year to join CumminsNitro.
54 Comments
Congrats guys.. very well deserved. J
It’s funny how the first few positive comments are assumed to be from the agency itself. So yes, i’m from the agency but I’m sure we’ll all agree that FUCK, those guys deserve it.
Well done guys and congrats on your new roles
Lam to the slaughter!! Good luck mate those stairs look steep.
well done guys!
ps. ben is hot
Good for John and Ben. Well deserved.
JWT has gone from somewhere ‘I would never work’ to ‘somewhere I would give my nut to work’ in just 5 short years. Impressive.
Where did you give your other nut to work, 6:57, McCann Erickson?
Go Lamy! you’re star quality, mate.
congrats!! well deserved!
8.39pm – if you’re still comparing JWT with McCann Erickson.. geez, you’re pretty out of touch mate.
Well done Ben. True talent always shines.
Congrats Ben. Your AWARD School lecture was the best one in my opinion. Truly inspirational and actually helpful.
6:31,
you got balls.
I agree anyway, well done you bastards
That’s wicked Ben! Before you were just an Ass, now you’re an Ass CD!
Keep truckin! 🙂
Well done lads. Will be watching.
Well done Johnny, fully deserved.
Well done John, I still think Soother Liquid Centers was your finest hour though!
What’s happening with JWT Melbourne, I hear they have hired a team from London.
Good stuff Johnny, Soothers in LA, Carefree in Vietnam… keep them coming mate.
9:24, assuming you are the team from london
Go 8!
Go Lammy! Good to see a good bloke making it in the industry, instead of you regular tossers.
8 thanks Anonymous you are a good friend.
Five ECD’s and four MD’s in 4 years. What an agency!
John has seen a lot of crap and helped hold a directionless agency down.
Well done.
Hope they coughed up and didn’t just give you a new business card.
Don’t be mean kids! Quit with the McCann Eriksson jokes, we already know they’re a joke….when the Microsoft account gets globally realigned there’ll be some good deals on macs and office furniture.
You sly prick Johnny.
Well done mate. Nice to see your hard work and substance rewarded.
All the best too Ben.
No more time for foosball, then, Associate CD?
Still can’t believe we gave up a 6-0 lead to you, O’Brien. Keep working on your cross-court backhand, that one’s hard to stop.
Ben O’Brien – Top man. Onya!!!
Well done Johnnie Lam.
Russell and Fred will be proud of your achievements.
brilliant johnny you have the cred man…
Looks like Frasers blocking the stairs to stop them from leaving.
Awesome work guys. Well done.
I’m as excited as a long distance urinating garden gnome. Bravo Ben.
Who’s the same dude that continuosly uses the word ” Dross” what a wanker…..
its obvious that the same tosser keeps making the same old predictable negative comments….. Dross guy….. you need to be sacked….. or did that happen already???/
Tennis, in-jokes about backhands…..god, how WHITE is he?
I’d rather have my 5 year old niece beside me in a barfight. You know he would run away.
4:10 – can’t see the word ‘dross’ in any of the posts.
Congratulations Mr Lam
All the best
Roy
The blogger who expressed the hope that the ‘promotion’ to Associate CD was more than just a more impressive-sounding title on a freshly printed business card gets my vote for insight on this thread.
In my considerable experience it’s a meaningless title with no more clout than Group Head. Or even less.
Perhaps Andrew Fraser or Noel Magnus could enlighten us.
P Diddy you rock!
Now organise that bloody dinner.
Go Johny Lam.
You rock.
Bec.
Really pleasing (and rare these days) to see such a positive blog about advertising. You guys are obviously well liked and respected.. I’m glad to see that (along with Geoff Reid), some decent and talented people actually get up the ladder in advertising.
Well done Ben. Glad to read you’re finally somewhere where they appreciate your abilities. Even back in the FNL days I could tell you’d go far. You’re a smart guy. FJ. .
6.58pm – pretty obvious you’ve never made it past Group Head.
More than 40 positive comments.. says it all. You guys deserve your promotions.. congratulations.
9:23, you dick, amongst my 30 years experience in creative departments around the world I was a creative director.
40 comments on Admen being promoted. 8 comments on an Adman that died.
Fuck me…..
Go, Johnny go!! Well done mate, Sarah
9:48, are you retired now?
Congrats John. You’ve done AWARD school class of 94 proud.
Yes, 11:11 that’s correct. You have 19 questions left.
10:08 move with the future…
Well deserved Mr Lam.
Mr John Lam – Congratulations. You’re a superstar talent who’s been a key driving force behind JWT’s success. Well deserved. PB
I think we should adopt the US system and make everyone a Vice President. Mum would be so proud.