Fitzgerald & Co (Fitzco) has added creative director/copywriter Dave Gordon and associate creative director James Beikmohamadi.
Gordon has a strong experiential and digital background and honed his creative skills at several shops over the past decade, including Razorfish in San Francisco and HUGE in Brooklyn, where he served as copywriter. Most recently, Gordon was creative director at Pereira & O’Dell in New York. Throughout his career, he’s worked on brands such as Best Buy, Intel, Microsoft, EA Games, General Mills, Procter & Gamble, Fox Sports 1, and Charter Communications.
At Fitzco, Gordon creates consumer campaigns and touchpoints for Checkers & Rally’s and several Coca-Cola brands as part of Fitzco//McCann, its dedicated unit for Coca-Cola.
“Dave is a great crossover creative who is equally at home on the digital side of our business as he is on the traditional side—and he’s already proved a hit with clients and our agency,” said Noel Cottrell, Fitzgerald’s chief creative officer.
Beikmohamadi partners with ACD Sherman Winfield. He worked at CP+B from 2010 to 2016 and split his term equally as copywriter and senior copywriter. He contributed to many of CP+B’s key accounts, including Microsoft, Best Buy, Kraft Mac & Cheese, Domino’s, Applebee’s, Velveeta Shells & Cheese, Fruit of the Loom, Infiniti and Old Navy. Prior to that, he was a copywriter at EVB in San Francisco.
“James’ book has a lot of my favorite Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) work in it from the six years he worked there,” added Cottrell. “It took some convincing to get him to leave the lucrative and flexible world of freelance, but I think he saw the opportunity in what we’re creating here in Atlanta.”
Fitzco increased its headcount almost 25% in 2016 and recruited several senior-level executives from outside the Atlanta area. The agency’s growth is the result of new business from brands such as Checkers & Rally’s, Coca-Cola’s Odwalla, and national energy company Southern Company. Creative directors Bowen Mendelson (Ogilvy & Mather, mcgarrybowen, Energy BBDO, Deutsch) and Mike Groenewald, who hails from Johannesburg, South Africa (TBWA and Ogilvy), were recently hired to work exclusively on Fitzco//McCann’s growing Coca-Cola business.
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Director Francis Ford Coppola, actor Viola Davis, director Paul Feig and and actor-director Clint Eastwood are among those paying tribute to Gene Hackman after his death at age 95. Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home, authorities said Thursday.
"The loss of a great artist, always cause for both mourning and celebration: Gene Hackman a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity, I mourn his loss, and celebrate his existence and contribution." — Francis Ford Coppola on Instagram.
"There was no finer actor than Gene. Intense and instinctive. Never a false note. He was also a dear friend whom I will miss very much." — actor-director Clint Eastwood in a statement.
"He was a tough nut, Gene Hackman, but he was really good and he was really difficult. Like, we can say it now, but he was a tough guy because older great actors do not give young directors much of a chance. They're really rough on 'em." — Bill Murray, recounting to The Associated Press Thursday how Hackman worked on the set of the "Royal Tenenbaums," including doing multiple takes flawlessly when other performers didn't nail the scene. "He was a great one. He was a great actor."
"We have lost a true legend. The magnificent Gene Hackman has passed away. A man whose breath of talent was immeasurable. Growing up on his movies was an absolute thrill for me. To observe his remarkable facility and humanity in every role was something to behold. Whatever film he was in, he made it better. A force of nature like no other and as such there will never be another like him." — actor Cary Elwes.
"The greatest ... " — director Edgar Wright on X.
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