New Faces
TBWA has announced a new group structure for its West Coast operations, TBWA/California, which encompasses TBWA/Chiat/Day Los Angeles, TBWA/Chiat/Day San Francisco, and Tequila, its marketing services network. The new effort will be headed up by Lee Clow, worldwide chairman and chief creative officer of TBWA Worldwide, and Robert LePlae, who was upped to the newly created position of president/CEO of TBWA/California. The streamlined restructuring is meant to better leverage office resources, and to take better advantage of media options. A part of the new structure will be a media arts lab, headed up by James Vincent, global managing director on Apple. Chuck McBride, the North American creative director, will additionally take on greater creative responsibility for branded entertainment opportunities within TBWA/California….McCann Erickson, San Francisco, has made several new hires for its Microsoft account. Group creative directors Scott Duchon, Geoff Edwards, Gerald Lewis, and Chris Toland, are joining the shop. Duchon and Edwards, who come over from TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles, will work on Xbox, while Lewis, who was previously with Ogilvy & Mather, New York, and Toland, who was at the Los Angeles office of Fallon, will work on other elements of the Microsoft account…..Miles Turpin has joined BBDO Chicago as senior VP/group creative director. He will work on the LaSalle Bank account….Lee Seidenberg and Brad Emmett have been promoted to associate creative directors at Cliff Freeman and Partners, New York….
Account Movement
Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, will handle advertising for a new, yet-to-be named division of American Express Financial Advisors….Ogilvy & Mather, New York, will handle ad duties for the Lenovo Group for the ThinkPad notebook and ThinkCentre desktop computers–GSD&M, Austin, Texas, will handle advertising for Sun Chips, made by Frito-Lay….The H.J. Heinz Co. has consolidated its advertising accounts at Cramer-Krasselt, Chicago….The Papa Murphy’s chain of pizza restaurants has selected Periscope, Minneapolis, to handle its ad account….Delta Faucet has selected The Martin Agency, Richmond, Va., to handle its ad account….McClain Finlon, Denver, has won ad duties on the Budget Truck Rental account….
